WEEK 72: Visiting Hours

Alternate Titles : Get Well Soon, The Fright

Year: 1982

Reviews / Author Comments due: 6/10/2012

DPP Status: Removed from list Nov 1984

BBFC Status: Passed with 1m10secs cut in 1986 (Listed as Uncut, as the version submitted was the previously cut X-rated cut

IMDB: LINK

Wikipedia: LINK

DVD: R1 Import (Part of a Double feature)

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Feel free to use the comments section of this post to add your own reviews and thoughts about this movie.

Unhinged - Lisa's Review

*** SPOILERS *** (but not the one that matters)

Well after 2 weeks of good movies, I couldn't expect another good 'un and indeed I didn't get one. It wasn't a 'bad' movie as such, mainly the acting irritated me.  I found it very hard to get past the actors in the movie appearing like they were reading (very slowly) from a sheet without any prior reads or practise.

Unhinged - Will's Review

When 3 girls on a road-trip have a car accident in an area known for 'disappearing' girls, they are taken in by a strange mother / daughter combo, and forced to wait out a storm. When one of them decides to brave the woods alone to cut to a nearby town with a phone, it (quite predictably) isn't long before she joins the numbers of the missing...

WEEK 71: Unhinged

Year: 1982

Reviews / Author Comments due: 29/9/2012

DPP Status: Removed from list MONTH 1985 

BBFC Status: Passed uncut in 2004

IMDB: LINK

Wikipedia: LINK

DVD: LINK

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Twitch Of The Death Nerve - Lisa's Review

*** SPOILERS ***

My flabber is well and truely gast this week!  2 movies worthy of a 'Recommends' tag from me in 2 weeks!! What is the world coming to?  I really enjoyed this weeks movie, on pretty much every level.  I knew from the opening scene, it was very likely that this was a good 'un.   The cinematography in this movie is cracking! I loved how they used the camera, lighting and staging.  In the opening scene alone, the filming of our first victims home (from inside and outside) is just stunning.

Twitch of the Death Nerve - Will's Review

Not quite a slasher (misses one of the essential ingredients) but defiantly an influence on the slashers that would follow (parts of this movie would be remade virtually shot for shot a decade later in 'Friday the 13th part II') Twitch of the Death Nerve is an important and interesting film, if only from a historical point of view.

Opening with 2 kills, and with a kill on average every 10 mins thereafter, I can't quite decide if I was entertained; but it was impossible to be board...

Week 70: Twitch Of The Death Nerve

Alternate Titles : A Bay of Blood, Bay of Blood, Reazione a Catena, Antefatto, Bloodbath, Bloodbath: Bay of Death, Bloodbath Bay of Blood, Carnage, Before the Fact: Ecology of a Crime, The Ecology of a Crime, Before the Fact, Last House on the Left Part 2, New House on the Left

Year: 1981

Reviews / Author Comments due: 22/09/2012

DPP Status: Successfully prosecuted 

BBFC Status: Passed uncut in 2010

IMDB: LINK

Wikipedia: LINK

DVD: LINK

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The Toolbox Murders - Will's Review

Maybe I was just in the right frame of mind, maybe I'd hate it on a re-watch, but I'm going to come right out and say it; I loved the hell out of this movie.

For that reason, I'm going to tell you why you should see it, then hang around after the jump, wielding spoilers and waiting for you to join me and shoot shit about a fun little movie.

The Toolbox Murders - Lisa's Review

*** BIG FAT SPOILERS ***

A VERY sleazy one this week.  I struggled with how to present my review and whether or not to give the movie a 'recommends' tag.  I decided since the aspects of the movie that I didn't enjoy are specific pet peeves of mine and perhaps aren't things that would irritate most viewers, I would go with a thumbs up.

Terror Eyes - Lisa's Review

So another slasher whodunnit movie this week... well I say this week, but as I'm late with this weeks movie, I'm playing catchup from last week.  Was it worth the wait?  Ummmm no.

It wasn't the worst thing I've ever seen by a long shot.  It was watchable, but was it enjoyable?  Ummmm no.  

WEEK 69: The Toolbox Murders

Alternate Titles : n/a

Year: 1978

Reviews / Author Comments due: 15/09/2012

DPP Status: Removed from list May 1985

BBFC Status: Passed with 1m46s of cuts in 2000

IMDB: LINK

Wikipedia: LINK

DVD: Uncut US import (Blu-ray only)

NOTE: The version banned by the DPP was actually a cut version, it is believed that an uncut version has never been released in the UK, even before the video recordings act.

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Terror Eyes - Will's Review

You know how the saying goes; Another week, another forgettable (though not entirely terrible) slasher!

This time, a killer in biker leathers and helmet is decapitating women, and throwing their heads in water.

It quickly becomes apparent that the victims all have one thing in common - the apparent, or alleged, affection of a college Anthropology professor, who collects skulls gathered from tribal head hunters from around the world; Mmmmmmm...

Week 68: Terror Eyes

Alternate Titles : Night School

Year: 1981

Reviews / Author Comments due: 08/09/2012

DPP Status: Removed from list June 1984

BBFC Status: Passed with 1m16s of cuts in 1987

IMDB: LINK

Wikipedia: LINK

DVD: Uncut US import

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Tenebrae - Wills review.

I'm sure a film student could go to town on this one; telling us how it lacks Argento's usual strangely colourful lighting, but how despite this the camera work and set design all still have his fingerprints all over them.

They could explore the idea that the films central character was a proxy for Argento himself; The character is a creator of horror and thrillers (books not movies) and is accused of misogynism by a critic (I don't know that the Argento himself ever was, but most purveyors of horror face the charge at some point).[1]

Tenebrae - Lisa's Review

*** SPOILERS ***

So another Dario Argento outing this week.  I know the guys is the recipient of much praise and is held in awe amongst many movie fans, but I find his movies full of pretentious drivel.