Tourist Trap (1979)

Another scary movie for Halloween! I’d only heard of Tourist Trap (1979) due to Waxwork Records reissuing the Pino Donaggio score on vinyl. The film itself is like a cross between Texas Chainsaw Massacre and House Of Wax as a group of young friends (including Jocelyn Jones, Robin Sherwood and Tanya Roberts) blow a tire and […]

Kill List (2011)

A bad habit I indulge in occasionally is reading the wikipedia plot summaries of thrillers or horrors that I can’t be arsed watching. I had heard good things about Kill List (2011) and that didn’t stop me from spoiling it for myself when I was bored and reading what happened. Yet watching it for the […]

The Masque Of The Red Death (1964)

Delving further into the Blu-Ray boxset of Vincent Price movies I received last Christmas, I watched another Roger Corman directed Edgar Allan Poe adaption, The Masque Of The Red Death (1964), which I believe is one of the best of them. Set in Medieval Italy (though no Italian accents, mainly British aside from our main […]

The Strange Vice Of Mrs Wardh (1971)

One can also giallo for Halloween! The Strange Vice Of Mrs Wardh (1971; also titled Blade Of The Ripper) has all the prototypical elements of the Italian giallo genre: a leather gloved killer, bloody violence, writhing sex, a convoluted plot, chic 70s style in the outfits and interior design, a gorgeous score and an iconic, […]

Under The Shadow (2016)

Another spooky movie for Halloween! Directed by Babak Anvari and based upon his childhood memories of the Tehran bombings, Under The Shadow (2016) works as a solid drama that escalates into spookiness. It’s set during the Iraq-Iran conflict of the 1980s, focusing on a family living in Tehran during regular bombings, with details such as […]