Monthly Archives: October 2017

The Video Nasties #23 – Axe (1974, Frederick R Friedel)

Posted on October 28, 2017 by paperbacksandpugs

‘I don’t have any parents…it’s only me and my grandfather.’ Films like Axe are the reason I wanted to write this blog. Despite some critical rehabilitation through writers like Stephen Thrower, so many Nasties are still unfairly maligned and dismissed … Continue reading →

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SHOCKTOBER HORROTHON films 22-24

Posted on October 26, 2017 by paperbacksandpugs

22. Effects (1980, Dusty Nelson) Fancy watching a low budget independent film about snuff movies, made by a bunch of George Romero acolytes? Then you could do a lot worse than Effects! Shot in super grain-o-vision (looks like 16mm to me), … Continue reading →

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The Video Nasties #22 – Flesh for Frankenstein (1973, Paul Morrissey)

Posted on October 25, 2017 by paperbacksandpugs

‘To know death, Otto, you have to fuck life in the gall bladder.’ Wise words, Udo. Wise words. Flesh For Frankenstein is a bit of an oddity amongst the Nasties. For a start it was shot in 3D (although the … Continue reading →

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SHOCKTOBER HORRORTHON films 19-21

Posted on October 23, 2017 by paperbacksandpugs

19. The Exorcist III: Legion (1990, William Peter Blatty) The Exorcist III is one of the best horror films of the 90s, yet there has always been an air of ‘what if?’ about it. Recut by the studio, with a superfluous … Continue reading →

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The Video Nasties #21 – The Erotic Rites of Frankenstein (1973, Jess Franco)

Posted on October 21, 2017 by paperbacksandpugs

  ‘If this continues, I think I’ll go crazy.’ The Erotic Rites of Frankenstein does not muck about. As the movie starts, Dr Frankenstein has just brought his creature to life when suddenly a blind, vampiric half-woman/half-bird creature runs in … Continue reading →

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