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Basket Case

Pazuzu Iscariot — Sat, 21 Mar 2015 00:00:00 GMT

Belial is one of the many names for The Devil. The meaning of the word in Hebrew is "worthless" and this could quite accurately describe the motivations for the anger-fuelled murder spree of Belial and his brother Duane in Henenlotter's first feature length horror movie. This also begs the question "What kind of parents call one member of a Siamese...

The Funhouse

Pazuzu Iscariot — Tue, 03 Mar 2015 00:00:00 GMT

The Funhouse is the second of Tobe Hooper's films to make it to the UK video nasty list (the first being Eaten Alive - the film about the crocodile, not the Umberto Lenzi one about cannibals). It is unclear why this tale of carnival jollity made it on to a list of notorious horror movies that "tend to deprave or corrupt persons" as it is a slasher ...

The Burning

Pazuzu Iscariot — Thu, 19 Feb 2015 00:00:00 GMT

The Burning is a slasher movie from 1981 that managed to get itself banished to the video nasty list. It fortified the genre but, unfortunately, didn't have the impact it should have for a number of reasons. It is often compared to Friday the 13th and quite rightly so; a group of hormonally charged teenagers at summer camp get stalked by a disfigur...

Small Town Folk

Pazuzu Iscariot — Wed, 07 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT

Small Town Folk is an odd mixture of styles which shouldn't work and, well... it doesn't really. The ambience is befitting of a made for TV mini-series for all the family, probably shown around supper time in the build up towards Christmas and probably featuring wizards, goblins, annoying know-it-all tweenies and wardrobes or something. This nausea...

Elves

Pazuzu Iscariot — Sun, 28 Dec 2014 00:00:00 GMT

Jeffrey Mandel's Elves is a little shit... but, it's an endearing little shit that cannot fail to get some love from fans of crappy movies. It's not so bad that it's good, it's so bad that it has to be seen to be believed and, as the true scale of the convoluted story is unravelled, it is destined to amaze due to the childlike charm it emits. Not t...

Saint (Sint)

Pazuzu Iscariot — Mon, 22 Dec 2014 00:00:00 GMT

Dick Maas (known for The Lift and Amsterdamned) puts his own spin on Dutch holiday traditions with Saint (known to the locals as Sint). St. Nicholas' Day is December 6th and Dutch children look forward to a visit from a kindly bishop with a massive sack known as Sinterklaas. Kids love this commercial invention and welcome the excrescence of our aff...

Candy Stripers

Pazuzu Iscariot — Sat, 13 Sep 2014 00:00:00 GMT

Faced with a DVD cover displaying three sexy nurses in dodgy makeup sucking on lollipops and the accompanying tagline of "They're running out of patients" to tantalise the wit area of the brain, it is best to adjust expectations to low before embarking upon a viewing of Candy Stripers. Even the avid B-Movie groupie will end up a little deader insid...

Don't Go in the Woods

Pazuzu Iscariot — Thu, 26 Jun 2014 00:00:00 GMT

Don't Go in the Woods is another slasher rescued from wrongful imprisonment in the short-lived purgatory known as the BBFC Video Nasty List. Proof that it was not worthy of the cult status imbued by inclusion on the now infamous list is that when it was finally re-released in 2007 it passed the censors uncut and was rated 15. It is also a contentio...

The Slayer

Pazuzu Iscariot — Wed, 25 Jun 2014 00:00:00 GMT

For the most part, The Slayer brings little new to slashers of that era but manages to present itself in a way that makes it feel like it might have a little something extra to offer. Writer and director J.S. Cardone uses tried and tested horror methodologies amid a few innovations but fails to grasp any of these elements as opportunities to really...

You're Next

Pazuzu Iscariot — Sat, 21 Jun 2014 00:00:00 GMT

As humanity's need to make sense of the world by categorising everything to the utmost degree grows stronger the mumblegore genre has been given life. Mumblecore describes a low budget brand of independent film with an emphasis on natural dialogue, throw in some horror and some cunning rhyming skills and the further refinement of mumblegore becomes...