Sew Tough! I was about fourteen when I first caught First Blood on home video, the perfect age to vicariously revel in such macho histrionics. Immediately afterwards, I ran outside, knocked the first motorcyclist I saw to the ground, and headed off for the woods at breakneck speed with an imaginary entire police force hot […]
Theater Of Blood (1973)
September 14, 2021 by
Film Title
Theater Of BloodSynopsis
Disgruntled actor, presumed dead, starts murdering his critics
Director
Douglas HickoxCast
Vincent Price
Ian Hendry
Diana Rigg
Milo O'Shea
Do you have a mantra that helps you get through life’s darker moments? You know, something that enables you to cope with the searing knowledge that dreams don’t come true and you’ll instead have to settle for second, third or fourth best as you crawl unfulfilled toward your grave. I cling to the insight of […]
Cruising (1980)
September 5, 2021 by
Film Title
CruisingSynopsis
Undercover cop Pacino seeks a gay slayer
Director
William FriedkinCast
Al Pacino
Paul Sorvino
Karen Allen
Richard Cox
A lot of gay guys
I once backpacked in Hanoi and happened to walk past a public toilet to see one of the little locals loitering near the entrance. Certain he’d caught my eye, he proceeded to unzip and begin wanking. Slightly taken aback (while trying to hang onto the old adage Travel broadens the mind) I looked around to […]
Targets (1968)
August 25, 2021 by
Film Title
TargetsSynopsis
An elderly horror movie star confronts a psychopathic Vietnam War vet who is a mass-murdering sniper
Director
Peter BogdanovichCast
Tim O'Kelly
Boris Karloff
Arthur Peterson
Peter Bogdanovich
Nancy Hsueh
Back in Dear Old Blighty in 87 when I was a cherubic-faced schoolboy half-mesmerized by Tracey Sharpe’s swaying pigtails, a jobless loner in a nearby market town killed his mum, burned their house down and strolled around with an arsenal of high-powered weaponry slaughtering whoever he could find. Ho hum. Guess we all have days […]
Wake In Fright: a.k.a. Outback
August 11, 2021 by
Film Title
Wake In FrightSynopsis
Toxic masculinity
Director
Ted KotcheffCast
Gary Bond
Donald Pleasence
Chips Rafferty
Sylvia Kay
Jack Thompson
Toxic masculinity. It’s a term bandied around by Nancy-boy progressives designed to make pumped-up, no-nonsense guys think twice about their actions. Bollocks, I say. What’s wrong with piling into a battered Ford with your mullet-headed mates and screeching round corners at breakneck speed while yelling abuse at passersby? Are you seriously saying I don’t have […]
Ten Memorable Acts Of Violence In Movies
July 20, 2021 by
Growing up in 1980’s Britain with the video nasties scare, I implicitly absorbed movie violence was bad and if I watched enough I’d eventually take an axe to random passersby. Now while this proved unfortunately true in my case, most people remain unaffected. In fact, someone like you has probably already forgotten hundreds, if not […]
Top 10 Movies Not To Watch Before…
July 11, 2021 by
Some movies are so bland they pretty much leave your head as the end credits roll. Others contain such unnerving scenes… like the opening of Jaws … that they are never forgotten. The horrifying death of that helpless skinny dipper is the perfect example of how a movie can worm its way into your brain […]
