Piranha is the notorious 1978 Jaws rip-off from Roger Corman’s New World Pictures. It was a major hit for Corman. Joe Dante directed. Skip-tracer Maggie McKeown (Heather Menzies) is trying…

By the late 70s Jean Rollin was starting to feel that perhaps he had exhausted the vampire genre. He had made a series of wildly unconventional surrealist vampire vampires and…

Helga, She Wolf of Stilberg is a 1978 French Eurocine production and it’s clearly in part at least an attempt to cash in on that other notorious 70s exploitation movie…

Keep It Up Downstairs is a 1976 British sex comedy. In the 1970s the British film industry was on life support. Without the sex comedy boom of that decade the…

The Red Circle (Der rote Kreis) was the second of the West German Edgar Wallace krimis (which is the term used in Germany for crime thrillers) made by Rialto. Technically…

Lips of Blood (Lèvres de sang), released in 1975, marks the end of the first phase of Jean Rollin’s career as a director. This was the period in which Rollin…

I love 70s disaster movies but The Hindenburg (1975) doesn’t quite come off, despite some interesting ideas. This was a real disaster so we know exactly what’s going to happen…

Chained Girls is a 1965 sexploitation flick which purports to be a documentary dealing with the subject of lesbianism. So it’s a mockumentary with a very serious voiceover narration because…

Sheena, released in 1984, is a movie that has few defenders. That’s perhaps a bit unfair. You have to remember that Sheena Queen of the Jungle was a comic-book heroine.…

Bruno Mattei’s Shocking Dark is a 1989 Italian rip-off of Aliens (and to a lesser extent The Terminator). In fact it was at one point released as Terminator II (a…

Most of the time I watch movies purely for entertainment. But occasionally I want a movie with a bit more substance and depth to it. Something a bit arty and…

After quite a late Friday it was up early for us to get into town and book into our hotel and kick back and relax for the 2 final days…

The Snake Girl and the Silver-Haired Witch is a 1968 Japanese horror movie and it’s totally crazy. It was directed by Noriaki Yuasa. Sayuri lives in an orphanage run by…

Hi Folks, Sorry for the delay on getting my review of the last day of MAYHEM up but it’s been manic here, you know what Halloween time is like for…

Luigi Cozzi’s classical music/punk rock horror film Paganini Horror was released in 1988. There was a minor outbreak of Paganini Fever in European cinema in the 1980s. Klaus Kinski had…

Jonny’s Cult Films: I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE:DEJA VU – REVIEWED I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE:DEJA VU – REVIEWED Well i have seen the original I spit on your grave…

The Sinful Dwarf is a movie that will redefine your whole understanding of sleaze. But if sleaze is your thing then this is your movie. There are several things that…

Hello Folks,It’s that time of year again, The time that this years line up for the fantastic MAYHEM festival has been revealed!Running from October 10th-13th this years line up looks…