Tag gore
If you had asked me before what Lucio Fulci’s greatest success with poker was I would have probably thought of poor old Dagmar Lassander in The House By The Cemetery getting it through the neck with one. I would never… Continue Reading →
With a name like Party Canon, one could easily think that you would be presented with some sugar and spice pop punk band, ready to sing about the joys of proms, milkshakes and some old shite. However what you are… Continue Reading →
It’s hard to believe that Lamberto Bava’s Demons is now 30 years old. It did really surprise me seeing it stated on the t shirt of the film that I nabbed recently when Goblin played at The Barbican. One of… Continue Reading →
“Warning: Some of this film may be seen as grossly offensive and should not be shown to minors!!!” As this appears on the screen along with a childish home-made font with the movie title, everyone in attendance at the Kings… Continue Reading →
If you know all about adjusting tracking then you lived through the video age, congratulations on surviving the frustration of fizzy screens and blurry images with lots of buzzing noise. Long before taking DVD for granted the video cassette and… Continue Reading →
The greeting is horrible screams and impressive artwork and lyrics which would be entirely in place on any Grindethic album. The emerging and lasting sound is in fact that of Vader, Cannibal Corpse, Carnifex or any other brutal death metal… Continue Reading →
Belgium’s Aborted are a band that certainly stick out from the crowd, they have become pretty much the definition of a revolving door line-up, with a huge roster of former members behind them, but they have managed to keep their… Continue Reading →
Of all the lurid titles vying with each other for attention in the golden days of exploitation film none had quite the compelling call of Bloodsucking Freaks. Just one mention of the film was enough to have gore fans literally… Continue Reading →
All fans of extreme metal over a certain age should be overjoyed at the final return of Carcass, legendary, groundbreaking and unique purveyors of gore-drenched yet witty and sharp, crushingly heavy death/gore/grind/metal… Call it what you will, Carcass made it… Continue Reading →
Arghhh, my eyes! Just look at that awful cover art. A grim scene, made even more horrible due to the fact it’s so badly digitally rendered that it just looks unbelievably bad. Had it not have been for the portrayal… Continue Reading →
For this second offering in my series on snuff-themed cinema I want to begin by discussing one of my bug-bears in genre film journalism. Torture Porn. Nope, it’s not the films themselves I have an issue with, in fact… Continue Reading →
From what I remember of this band’s debut album ‘Human Harvest’ they were a harsh rotten death metal band from Sweden. Go forward a mere two years, and these Swedes have earned their rotten death metal stripes. The sound is… Continue Reading →