RECOMPENCE
A stunningly photographed, powerfully atmospheric modern silent that’s about as gross, unsettling and plain weird as they come
SPLATTER MOVIES
Apparently the most authoritative overview of the splatter movie phenomenon ever published—or so I’ve been told
DEMONS
Nothing too deep here: A Pastaland eighties classic with movie theater patrons getting turned into flesh eating demons
DEFENCELESS
A recent shot-on-video feature by Australia’s Mark Savage that’s very likely his best film
DEATH WARMED UP
From New Zealand, a no-budget gorefest of a type that has become fairly common in recent years but wasn’t back in 1983
DEADLY SPAWN
A 3 A.M. movie for sure, but definitely an above average specimen, this is a no-budget monster mash from the early eighties that mixes gore and laughs in the manner of BASKET CASE and THE EVIL DEAD
THE DEAD NEXT DOOR
This no-budget eighties zombie epic isn’t much from a technical standpoint but has a real low-rent charm, and enough creative bloodletting to fill a dozen mainstream gorefests
DEAD BOYZ CANT FLY
Those in the mood for gratuitous violence will be amply rewarded by this early-nineties over-the-topper
DAY OF THE DEAD
To many horror fans DAY OF THE DEAD, the third in George Romero’s “Dead” saga, is a genre masterpiece. Not me!
DARKNESS
A recent, and quite possibly final, horror film from Juraj Herz, the Czech Republic’s master of all things horrific and fantastic