Bloody Moon (1981)Movie Review

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Bloody Moon is a 1981 horror movie directed by Jesus Franco and starring Olivia Pascal.

The movie begins with a man called Miguel who is disfigured. He is at a party and he sees others having fun. He puts on a Mickey Mouse mask and pretends to be someone else.He murders a girl. He is put into a psychiatric hospital for a few years. Miguel is finally released into the care of his sister, Manuela(Nadja Geganoff). She is responsible for him. She has a language school in Spain along with Countess Maria Gonzales(Maria Rubio). A professor Alvaro arrives at the school. He is teaching Spanish there. Manuela and the Countess don't like each other. She accuses Manuela of trying to get her money. She gets burned to death in her bed.

A girl called Angela(Pascal) arrives at the school. Miguel sees her and watches her. The tennis coach, Antonio has spotted Angel and he likes her. He is a ladies man. We find out that Miguel and Manuela are in a sexual relationship. Manuela thinks that they could get together if things were different. A friend of Angela's goes to her room to borrow a jumper when she is murdered by a masked man. Angela discovers her friend and runs to tell Antonio. Alvaro shows up and she tells him but he doesn't believe it. Angela searches for her pal but cannot find her.

Angela sees Manuela and Antonio arguing. She asks him about it and he dismisses it. Another girl dies. Angela wants to leave the school. Miguel is creeping around looking at her. She barricades herself into a bungalow. Her friend Laura shows up and gets killed. Angela gets a creepy call from the killer. She finds a severed head in her bed.Her friend's body shows up and Laura's corpse hangs from the ceiling. The killer shows up to get her. Miguel tries to stop him.Angela runs.

Manuela and Alvaro are plotting to set up Miguel for the murders. Alvaro is the real culprit on Manuela's orders. She wanted the family money. Miguel hears this. He tries to kill Angela thinking that she is Manuela. Angela stabs him. Manuela kills Alvaro and saves Angela. She and Angela have an understanding. Somehow Miguel survives and kills his sister. The movie ends with Angela and Antonio together while the police arrive.

This film has so much happening in it that it is confusing at times. There are some good kills in it though. There is a scene with a saw that is gruesome! I liked this and I recommend it for fans of euro slashers. I will give it a 5/10.

Fear Below(2025) Movie Review

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Fear Below is a 2025 Australian thriller movie directed by Matthew Holmes and starring Hermione Corfield, Jake Ryan and Arthur Angel.

A van carrying gold drops its load on the road. A criminal called Bull(Ryan) is the leader of a criminal gang who have stolen it. His lackeys put the gold back into their truck but they end up crashing and the gold ends up in a river. They need divers to retrieve it. They go to a struggling diving company called Sea Dog Diving Company run by Ernie(Angel) and he has two partners-Clara(Corfield) and Jimmy(Jacob Junior Nayinggul). Bull offers them money to get the gold from the bottom of the river. They agree. Bull tells them to ask no questions. The divers meet Bull and his pals at the river. Unfortunately there is something in the river with them.

Clara and Jimmy find the van but can't open the door. Clara gets knocked over by a shark. She passes out when her air supply is cut off. They pull her out and realize it is a bull shark. Ernie tells Bull that he won't send his two divers in there until the shark is dead. Clara wants to leave the job. She doesn't trust Bull. A man called Bob Drummond is called in to get the shark. He goes out in a boat and tries to draw it out. It is too clever. It knocks the boat and Bob gets eaten by the shark.  Ernie tells Bull that he is not going to do the job but Bull threatens him. Ernie and Jimmy decide to go down and get the gold while Clara is on the shore. They lure the shark by putting meat into the water. They find it and try to bring it up but the shark sees them.

It attacks Ernie. Jimmy harpoons it. It goes after Ernie again and he stabs it with a knife. He dies. Jimmy is furious about it. He attacks one of Bull's lackies. Clara is going to go and retrieve the loot. She dives and loads up some of the gold. The shark is lurking. She hides from it and she finds a gun in the sunken van. The shark gets itself stuck inside the van after going to get her. The gold is brought to the surface. A cop shows up and confronts the group.  He shoots one of the gang and this makes Bull shoot him. There is a big fight between Jimmy and one of the gang. Clara ends up shooting him. Bull gets his machine gun out and he tries to kill Jimmy and Clara. They dive into the water. He gets into a boat and he follows them. He shoots into the water. Clara shakes the boat and it knocks him into the water.

Jimmy escapes. Clara pulls Bull down into the water. The shark is approaching. Clara gets into the boat and she gets the gun and shoots at him. The shark does the job for her. Bull becomes shark food. Jimmy and Clara survive. Cut to some time later and Jimmy and Clara are still working at the diving company. Ernie had a will and he left the company to Jimmy. The bank gives them a reward and they intend to buy a boat with it.  This was an unusual shark story. It is a mixture of thriller and monster movie. It was set in the 1940's also which made it different. I liked it though. The shark scenes were not bad and the cast did their job well.There was a familiar face in this. Jake Ryan played Robbo in Home and Away for a few years. I recommend this and give it a 5/10.

Splatter Farm (1987)Movie Review

Splatter Farm is a 1986 horror film directed by John and Mark Polonia and Todd Smith and stars the same three guys.

A guy is dismembering a body. He uses the severed hand to masturbate. Two guys Joseph(John Polonia) and his brother Alan(Mark Polonia) are visiting their Aunt Lacey. She has a farmhand living with her called Jeremy (Smith), who just happens to be a killer. He has dead bodies in the barn. He is a total weirdo. Aunt Lacey is weird too. Jeremy is claiming victims all over the place.

Jeremy dances around with a skin mask on . Aunt Lacey knows all about it and is messing around with her husband's corpse. Of course, Jeremy killed him.Alan and Joseph look around the farm and find a bloody boot. They run to the house to call the police. The phone isn't working. Aunt Lacey drugs and sleeps with Alan. Joseph finds a human skull and tells Alan.They try to leave but the car won't start. Alan goes to sleep and Joseph talks to Jeremy who hits him. He drags him off and ties him up and tortures him.

Joseph is stabbed and buried alive. Next day, Alan looks for his brother. He asks Jeremy, who just smiles. Alan finds Joseph's glasses and fears the worst. Jeremy shoots him. Aunt Lacey tells him that Jeremy is the result of rape by her brother. Jeremy gets angry and kills her too. The movie ends with him dancing around. Let me just say that I have enjoyed many low budget films. I like them, but this is something else. I know it's not a professionally made movie but it is so bad that it stinks. There is nothing about this that I like. The acting is woeful. There is no story. It is just so bad that it was hard to sit through it . The filmmakers might not have had much of a budget but that is no excuse for such a bad movie. 1/10.

Carnifex (2022) Movie Review

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Carnifex is a 2022 Australian horror movie directed by Sean Lahiff and starring Alexandra Park, Harry Greenwood, Sisi Stringer and Darren Gilshenan.

There are bushfires in the outback. Something is frightening the animals in the area. It is some sort of creature. There are cameras there. Three people are making a documentary on the wildlife and the effects of the bushfire. Ben(Greenwood) is a biologist. He has Bailey(Park) who is a filmmaker and Grace(Stringer) who is also a biologist with him.They meet Matt(Gilshenan) who is a park ranger. The three head off into the wilderness. They are putting camers around to keep an eye on the animals. There is a hunter out at night shooting kangaroo. He hears something moving around in the trees. He goes to investigate and gets killed. 

The group retrieve their cameras. They decide to walk in the forest . Ben calls birds but there are none which is unusual. They discover one of the cameras which has been knocked down. They also find animal remains. They look at the camera footage. Something weird is on it. They think it might be some kind of feral animal. They call the park ranger and tell him. He goes to meet them. Bailey finds scratches on a tree. It looks like claw marks. Ben and Grace set trps to lure the creatuee out. Matt finds the hunters camp and looks around. Ben thinks that it might be a carnifex which is an extinct creature. Grace doesn't believe it. Matt ends up meeting it and he dies. The others wonder where he went. The carnifex shows up and the group see it. Grace and Ben are delighted.

Their delight doesn't last long as they both get attacked by the creature. Bailey is alone and gets to the car. She tries to hide from the creature. Ben finds himself in a tree. He is injured, as is Grace. Ben gets eaten by it. It wants Grace next. She manages to find Bailey and the two go to find Ben but it is too late. They get back to the car and try and escape. The car gets stuck and they can't go. Bailey shines a light and she hits it. It drags her off. They have a shotgun with one shot left in it. Grace shoots it and it runs off. The survivors head off. 

This is a fun creature feature. There is lots of action and it is good overall. The ending is a little flat but it is an interesting tale. I will give it a 5/10.

Twisted Nightmare(1987) Movie Review

Twisted Nightmare is a 1987 horror movie directed by Paul Hunt and starring Rhonda Gray, Cleve Hall and Natalie Main.

A girl called Laura(Gray) wins a weekend away  to Camp Paradise. She went there as a child and she wants to bring her boyfriend, Shawn(Brad Bartram) and some old friends-Jennifer(Main), Tak, Nicole,Jerome,Gus, Sylvia,Ken, Julie, Dean and Cheri. There is a caretaker called Kane(Robert Padilla) working there. He lets them in and locks the gate after them. We discover that Laura had a disabled brother called Matthew(Hall) who had an accident at the camp years before and died. It isn't long before people start to get killed. Sylvia and Gus are the first.

Some of the group go hiking.Dean and Cheri are leaving because they think something is weird at the camp and they are suspicious of the free weekend.Ken and Julie don't go hiking and Ken goes looking for Kane. Julie finds Sylvia and Gus dead in the barn and goes to ring the Sheriff but she gets cut off before she can explain. She runs to the truck but gets pulled out and killed. Dean tells the others someone put sugar in his gas tank so he can't leave. Tak and Shawn are hunting . Shawn asks Tak about Matthew.Tak says people were teasing him and somehow Matthew was on fire. His body was never found.

Kane warns them to leave before it's too late. Others get killed. The Sheriff comes up to talk to them. He finds Laura but she knows nothing. Kane tells Shawn that the land belonged to his tribe. He tells him his people were killed by the white man. There is a curse on the land. He warns them to leave or die. Nicole and Jerome die. Shawn and Tak see the killer. They make it back to the cabin and find Laura. The Sheriff meets Dean and Cheri. He gives them a lift to the cabin. He tells all of them to stick together. He goes for a look around.Most of the gang meet their deaths. The Sheriff also gets attacked. Laura gets attacked by Kane but Shawn saves her. He shoots Kane. Laura tells him that they are all dead. Shawn shoots at the killer. Matthew kills him. Jennifer spots them and sees Laura sending Matthew to kill her. Kane isn't dead and he decides to burn down the barn with Laura, Matthew and himself inside. It goes up in flames and Jennifer survives.

This was a decent slasher movie with some fun scenes. The acting wasn't very good but I suppose that's normal with these lower budget movies. It is entertaining though and I recommend it to fans of 80's slashers. I give it a 5/10.

Tarot(2024)Movie Review

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Tarot is a 2024 horror movie directed by Spenser Cohen and Anna Halberg and starring Harriet Slater, Jacob Batalon, Avantika, Humberly Gonzalez, Wolfgang Novogratz.

A group of friends are on holiday together. It is Elise's(Larsen Thompson) birthday. Along for the celebration is Haley(Slater), Lucas(Novogratz), Grant, Paige(Avantika), Madeline (Gonzalez) and Paxton(Batalon). They find a basement and there is strange stuff in there. Paxton finds tarot cards. Haley knows how to read them. The cards are not ordinary tarot cards.Haley reads their fortunes. Paxton thinks that he sees something outside. The cards seem to come alive.

The group leave and their fortunes start to come true.Elise hears a bang at her door. She hears someone is playing tricks on her. It is no trick when the figure from her tarot card is waiting for her and kills her.Each of the group start to find their tarot figures coming to life. The cops talk to them about what's going on. They think they are accidents. Haley thinks the readings influenced the deaths. Grant doesn't believe it. Haley finds an expert, Alma(Olwen Fouere) and tells her what is going on. She doesn't want to know. When she hears about the deaths, she tells them about the haunted tarot cards.

She knows of others who died from using the cards but she survived it. She has been searching for the cards to destroy them. The cards are cursed. They need to destroy them. More of the gang die as they try to get the cards and destroy them. They burn them and call Alma. Alma calls an astrologer who reads Alma's fortune. She kills her. Haley and Grant are left. Haley meets the astrologer and does a reading. Haley faces off with her.There's some silly story about grief and the astrologer ends up disappearing along with the cards. Grant, Haley and Paxton survive.

I liked the premise of this one. It sounded good but the execution was not so good. There wasn't anything in this that was great. It felt long and dull in parts. It's one of those ok films but not great. I will give it a 4/10.

The Bloody Judge(1970)Movie Review

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The Bloody Judge is a 1970 horror movie directed by Jesus Franco and starring Christopher Lee, Maria Schell, Leo Genn and Maria Rohm.

The movie begins in England in the seventeenth century. Judge Jeffries(Lee) is a tough judge. He is called the Bloody Judge. Awful things are happening at this time. He has his men kill people and torture women. A woman is being arrested for being a witch.Her name is Alicia(Margaret Lee). She is accused of witchcraft. She is brought before Jeffries.He states that she will be examined thoroughly. She is tortured. Her sister is called Mary(Rohm) and she visits the judge seeking leniency. It is a waste as her sister is burned at the stake.

Mary is angry and she goes to see a local woman,Mother Rosa(Schell), who seems to be a witch of some sort. Jeffries is suspicious of a man called Barnaby(Peter Martell), who he thinks is plotting against the King. A man called Harry is friends with Barnaby. He is also with Mary. He wants to marry her.He wants Barnaby to help him. His father warns him about Jeffries. Harry doesn't listen. He discovers that Mary has been taken to Jeffries. Mary is taken prisoner by a creepy guy called Satchel, who works for Jeffries. He tries to rape her. She tries to escape but he catches her. She manages to push his face into the fire. Harry arrives to save her.

Harry and his pal Barnaby end up fighting the judges men. Barnaby gets hurt. Harry brings him to his hideout while he goes for help. He leaves Mary with Barnaby. Satchel demands money from Harry's father in exchange for his silence. He also wants Mary. Harry arrives back to the hideout and finds Barnaby hanged and Mary gone. Satchel brings a group of women to Jeffries. Mother Rosa gets a visit from Harry. He tells her about Satchel and the women he has taken. She warns him about Jeffries. Harry and some guys are going to rescue them.

The rebels break into Jeffries castle and try to save the girls. Jeffries finds out and declares Harry an outlaw. He hauls in Mother Rosa and interrogates her. Harry and Mary get caught. There are executions aplenty. Harry's father visits Jeffries and seeks a pardon for his son. The King has written a letter to Jeffries seeking clemency but Jeffries ignores it. Mary finds herself allowed out of prison. A maid gives her a dagger to take with her as she is going to see Jeffries. He offers to save Harry's life in exchange for herself. He is going to exile Harry. Mary tries to kill him but it fails and she is taken away. Harry and his pals break out of their prison and free all the prisoners too. They tie Satchel up and he gets killed. Harry's father meets him outside and says that he is free. The King has been defeated. Jeffries won't leave his castle. Harry's father has a warrant for him. Jeffries is arrested for his crimes. Mary is rescued and Jeffries is thrown into prison where he dies.

This film was entertaining. The cast were good of course. It kind of reminded me of Witchfinder General in some ways. It was a little slow in parts but it is certainly worth watching.  Christopher Lee is always great so I am giving it a 6/10.

The Shadow of the Cat(1961)Movie Review

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The Shadow of the Cat is a 1961 horror movie directed by John Gilling and starring Andre Morell, Barbara Shelley, William Lucas, Freda Jackson and Conrad Phillips.

An old woman called Ella Venable is killed in her house. Her cat, Tabitha sees it and knows who the killer is. There are two men and a woman involved in it. The cat witnesses them burying the body. Police come to the house. Ella's husband is called Walter(Morell) and he is in on the murder along with Andrew(Andrew Crawford), the butler and Clara(Jackson), the maid. Walter tells the police that Ella has been missing for a few days. He tells them that he hasn't seen her at all. Andrew tries to catch the cat but it won't come to him. Clara tries too. The cat is lurking, watching everything. Andrew tries to kill it. It runs into the basement. Walter tries to get it too. Tabitha attacks him. Andrew tells Inspector Rowles(Alan Wheatley) that the cat is being vicious.

Ella has a niece called Beth(Shelley) and she is coming to the house. A reporter called Latimer(Phillips) is on the case of the missing lady too. He comes to the house and he meets Beth. Andrew tells them that the cat attacked him. Tabitha goes to see Beth and she pets it and it likes her. When Clara appears, the cat gets angry and vicious. Walter sends for his brother, Edgar(Richard Warner) and his son Jacob(Lucas).Jacob brings his wife, Louise(Vanda Godsell) with him. Clara is worried about the cat. Beth asks her what is going on. Walter informs his family about the cat and he orders them to kill it. Tabitha and Beth have no problems at all. She calls Latimer and tells him that she is frightened of what is happening in the house. Michael Latimer thinks that the cat knows what happened to Ella.

Tabitha is making the culprits feel guilty. Michael tells her that he thinks that Walter is behind it all. Edgar and Jacob find the cat and trap it in a bag. Andrew runs off with it and goes into the woods but it escapes. The cat leads him to a swamp. Andrew falls in and dies. Tabitha returns to the house. Beth asks everyone why they are frightened of a little cat. Clara realises that something has happened to Andrew and she tells Walter. She wants to go but Walter won't let her. She dies when the cat jumps on her and tumbles down the stairs. Michael shows up at the house and Louise blames the cat for Clara's death. The Inspector comes and informs them about Andrew. 

Beth and Michael explore the house and they see that there is a broken wall. Edgar, Jacob and Louise disscuss Walter. They want to get rid of him. Beth hears noises at night. The cat sits on Walter's bed. He has a heart attack and dies. The Inspector and Michael arrive. Edgar has a will that leaves everything to him. Louise thinks that Jacob had something to do with  Walter's death. Michael thinks that there might be another will. The police look for the cat. Ella had put her papers in a safe deposit box. Michael thinks that Ella was killed and the cat witnessed it. The Inspector asks about the will and he wants to search the house for it. The cat comes in and runs upstairs. Jacob chases it. He goes onto the roof and falls off. Edgar is searching for another will. Michael and Beth are searching too. Edgar finds Ella's box and the cat comes in. He chases it and he gets hit by a beam. The box is found. Beth is the one who was supposed to inherit Ella's estate. Tabitha leads the police to Ella's body. The house is sold and the new occupants are moving in. Puss is there, looking for a new family.

This was a really good movie. I liked the idea of the cat witnessing the murder and making sure that the guilty are punished. The cast were great and there were some really great moments in this one. Interesting note- this is actually a Hammer movie. I recommend this and I am giving a 7/10.

Out of the Dark(1988) Movie Review

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Out of the Dark is a 1988 horror movie directed by Michael Schroeder and starring Karen Black and Bud Cort.

The movie begins with a man calling a sex phone line. A woman called Camille(Black) is starting work at the sex line. A creepy clown talks to a woman in the park. He hits her with a baseball bat and kills her. The cops are on the case. She was working at the sex line. Kevin (Cameron Dye) is a photographer who also knows some of the girls at the line.  The cops pay him a visit. The cops are led by Lieutenant Myers(Tracey Walter) and McDonald. They question Kevin about the dead girl. A man called Dave (Cort) is working in the same building as the sex line. He is an accountant and he likes a woman called Barbara. She is giving one of the sex line workers, Camille, a ride home. The clown is following them.  Barbara drops her home and the clown follows her. He forces her to crash her car and then he kills her.

Kevin gets another visit from the cops. His girlfriend is Kristi and she works at the sex line. She is upset about Kevin being accused of being the killer. The boss, Ruth(Black) is not happy about all of this. A witness saw the killer and she says that he wore a clown mask. The cops decide to set up a phoneline to draw the killer out. The clown calls Camille and he gets angry with her. Later on, he finds her and he kills her. The cops realise that the clown outsmarted them. They find Camille's body. Ruth is very upset at the cops for causing the killer to strike.

Kevin and Kristi suspect Dave. They discover sex items in his office. Kevin and Kristi go to a seedy motel to hide. The killer just happens to be at the same motel. He murders a prostitute. The motel owner discovers the body. Along come the cops and Kevin and Kristi see them. They make a run for it but get caught. Kevin is taken to jail and he calls Kristi and tells her to go back to Dave's office and find something to incriminate him. She finds stuff but gets caught by Dave. He chases her and tries to kill her but he gets hit by a car and dies. The cops think that he was the killer. Kevin is cleared and released.

Kevin and Kristi go to his place in the desert. Kristi finds a clown mask in his trunk. She realises that Kevin was the real killer. He has a gun and he tells her that he used to be a professional clown. He tries to kill her and she ends up shooting him. He isn't dead though and he comes back to finish her off when he is shot dead by Meyers who found them just in time. This is a decent thriller/horror. It has some good stuff in it even though it is a little cheesy in parts. I think that it is worth a look and I will give it a 5/10.

The Sorcerers(1967) Movie Review

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The Sorcerers is a 1967 horror movie directed by Michael Reeves and starring Ian Ogilvy, Boris Karloff, Catherine Lacey and Susan George.

Professor Monserrat(Karloff) is advertising his services as a hypnotist. He has a plan. A man called Michael(Ogilvy) is at a club with his girlfriend, Nicole(Elizabeth Ercy). The professor and his wife, Estelle(Lacey) have a machine and they need a person to test it out. Michael is walking alone when he meets the Professor. They get chatting and Monserrat offers him an experience he will never forget. Michael follows him back to his house. The Professor has a laboratory and he tells Michael that he is a hypnotist and he has a special machine which he uses for his hypnosis. Michael doesn't seem too worried about it. He gets hypnotised and the experiement is a success. The Professor and his wife can control Michael and his thoughts.  The Professor tells him that he will remember nothing about it when he leaves their house.

Michael goes back to the club and is unaware of what has happened. Estelle wants Michael to bring her a fur coat. They concentrate on him and he leaves his girlfriend to bring them the coat. Estelle enjoys controlling him. Michael tells his girlfriend that he thinks he did something bad but he can't remember it. Michael and Nicole go into the country on a motorbike. Estelle makes him speed on the bike. His friend Alan(Victor Henry) is upset because it was his bike. Michael fights with him. He attacks Alan's boss too. He is acting crazy. Nicole is horrifed by his behaviour. Monserrat is not happy with his wife. She is getting carried away. He tells her that he will stop her. She tells him that he can't.

The Professor tells her that he will go to the police and she trips him up and breaks the machine. She hits him. She makes Michael kill a woman. Nicole and Alan read about it in the paper and they become suspicious of Michael. They look for him. The police are closing in on him too. Michael has no memory of doing anything. They talk to him and tell him what happened. Estelle controls him and makes him pull a knife on them. Alan and Michael fight and the police are on the way. He runs off. He drives off. Estelle is losing her grip on him. The Professor tries to get into his mind. He makes Michael crash the car. It explodes and he dies. In the end, the Professor and Estelle are also burned because of their link to Michael.

This was a fun film and I enjoyed it. The cast were good and there was enough to keep me entertained. I would recommend this, I will give it a 5/10.

The Blood Spattered Bride(1972) Movie Review

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The Blood Spattered Bride is a 1972 horror movie directed by Vicente Aranda and starring Simon Andreu and Maribel Martin.

A woman called Susan(Martin) is newly married and she has an awful vision of someone trying to hurt her at a hotel. When they arrive home, Susan meets her husbands(Andreu) staff and a woman called Carol who is the daughter of one of the servants. Susan spots a woman in the woods near the house. She talks to Carol and Carol tells her that there are portraits of women in the cellar. Susan sees a portrait of a woman called Mircala(Alexandra Bastedo). Her husband tells her about Mircala. She killed her husband on the wedding night. They go to her tomb and Susan sees her. She gives Susan a dagger and she bites her neck. Susan screams. Her husband doesn't see anything. Carol tells them she put a dagger under Susan's pillow. She tells them that she got it from a lady in the woods.  Susan wants to leave.

Mircala comes to Susan at night. She shows her where her husband hid the dagger. She wants Susan to murder her husband. Susan has a vision where she kills her husband with Mircala. It seems to be a dream. The doctor comes to see her. He gives her injection to help her. He tells her husband that she is thinking about myths and legends and she shouldn't be. The dagger is hidden in a clock. The husband thinks Carol hid it. She denies it. The husband buries the dagger on the beach. He sees a woman buried in the sand. She is naked. He brings her home.

The woman meets Susan. She says that her name is Carmila. Susan and Carmila have a connection. Susan begins to act strangely. The husband wants to know what is going on. Susan digs up the dagger and she cuts herself. The doctor is called again and the husband hides the dagger and locks it up. He takes the key with him. The doctor recommends that Susan should see a psychiatrist. The husband tells him about Mircala. The groundskeeper tells the doctor that he saw Susan in the woods with Mircala. Susan slips away at night. The doctor follows. He sees the two women. Mircala drinks Susan's blood. She is turning Susan against her husband. The doctor informs the husband. He sees it for himself.  He sees that Carmila is a vampire. She is using Carol to get her things she needs.

Susan tries to get the dagger without the key. She breaks open the drawer where it is and she grabs it. She kills the doctor. Her husband spots her and Mircala dragging the body away. Mircala orders Susan to kill her husband. He runs away and gets to his car and speeds off. Mircala becomes caught in a trap in the woods. Susan kills the gardener. The husband gets a gun and goes after them. He finds them in a coffin and he shoots holes in it. Carol arrives. She is also a vampire. She tells him that the two women will return. He shoots her too. The film ends with a newpaper headline about a a man who cut out the hearts of three women so it seems to hint that he was found guilty of murdering them. 

This was an ususual film with some good scenes. I enjoyed it overall and I would recommend it for fans of vampire movies. I will give it a 5/10.

Fangs of the Living Dead(1969)Movie Review

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Fangs of the Living Dead a.k.a.Malenka is a 1969 horror film directed by Amando de Ossorio and starring Anita Ekberg.

The films begins with a man called Dr. Luciani who received a call from his fiance, Sylvia(Ekberg). She tells him that she has inherited a castle and a title of Countess. She has to go to the place to sign papers. She goes to the local inn and the locals in there are startled when she tells them that she is going to be staying at the castle. A local person tells her that Count Walbrooke is expecting her. He is her uncle. She meets him and she looks around the castle. Sylvia is visited by a servant, Blinka(Adriana Ambesi) who seems to be about to bite her when the count appears and he is really angry. He takes her away and whips her.

Sylvia realises that Blinka is a vampire. She wants to leave but the Count doesn't want her to. A relative of Sylvia's was called Malenka and she was burned at the stake for being a witch. Walbrooke tells her that she must never marry. He tells her that Malenka created vampires. He informs her that he is Malenka's husband and he is undead. He tells her of some family curse which means she has to stay at the castle and can't marry. Sylvia breaks off her engagement to Dr. Luciani. Luciani and his firend Max go to the castle to see her. She won't see them. The locals are superstitious. They know that something dodgy is going on. The Count is snacking on some of the local ladies. He wants to dine on Sylvia next.

The Count tells her to drink his blood. Syvlia rescues Blinka from the dungeon. Blinka tells her that there is a tunnel . She enters it but gets caught by a girl vampire called Berta.She runs but the vamp lady is on her heels. Sylvia goes to the inn where Luciani and Max are. She tells them about Berta.They talk to the local doctor about it and he tells them to get a sharp wooden stake and stake the vamps with it.The doctor, Luciani, Max go to Bertha's grave. The Count sends one of his henchmen to get Sylvia. Berta rises from her grave. The doctor tries to get her but she runs off. Sylvia is kidnapped and brought back to the castle.

Luciani talks to the Count. He gets knocked out by one of his sidekicks. The doctor and Max see Blinka. The Count tells Luciani that he has a plan. He is going to get Sylvia declared insane because he wants the castle for himself. Blinka warns Sylvia that the vampire thing is all a lie. Luciani kills the Count and he burns. A portrait of Malenka burns too. 

This is a film that is very light on plot. It is not bad in parts and I did like the ending. This is made by the same guy who directed Tombs of the Blind Dead, which is why I watched it. It is a fun Spanish movie and worth a look if you enjoy Euro horror. I will give it a 5/10.

Alligator(1980) Movie Review

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Alligator is a 1980 horror movie directed by Lewis Teague and starring Robert Forster, Robin Riker and Michael V. Gazzo.

The movie begins with a girl buying a baby alligator. Her father throws it down the toilet and it ends up in the sewer. Twelve years later, A cop called Madison(Forster)  is working on a case where the remains of a body have been found. A man who has a pet shop has been dumping dead dogs in the sewer. The alligator has been living on them and has ingested the chemicals which were used, resulting in it becoming huge and hungry. The pet shop owner has been bringing them to a pharma company who are using them in experiments. Madison is investigating them. He goes into the sewers to see what is going on. He brings an officer with him. They look around and spot the alligator and they run. The officer gets taken by the alligator.

Madison wakes up in the hospital. He wants to find his officer. He visits an alligator specialist, Dr. Kendall(Riker). She just happens to be the same girl who bought the alligator all those years ago. She is interested in finding it too. A journalist is poking his nose around and he is interested in Madison. He wants to know what happened to the officer and he goes into the sewers and meets the alligator who eats him for dinner. He had taken pictures, though, and the alligator is in them. The police and swat teams decide to go into the sewers and get the monster. Kendall shows up. The cops don't find the giant alligator. It breaks out of the sewer and roams the streets.

The cops look for it as it wanders around. Madison gets suspended because of a rich man called Slade(Dean Jagger). He is the one who has been bankrolling the experiments and he doesn't want the cops to discover what has been going on. The alligator ends up eating some more people and it heads for Slade's house where it wreaks havoc. It attacks his guests and Slade, killing them. Madison and Kendall realise it is going back into the sewers. Madison goes in after it. It comes at him. He sets a bomb and it attacks him. He tries to get out and is saved by Kendall. They escape and the bomb goes off , killing the alligator. Of course, this isn't the end of the story as there are baby alligators down there...

This is a fun monster movie. There is a huge alligator and lots of action. I think that you get exactly what you expect and that's okay here. It's entertaining and I liked the cast. I will give it a 5/10.

Don't Open the Door!(1974)Movie Review

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Don't Open the Door is a 1974 horror movie directed by S.F.Brownrigg and starring Susan Bracken and Larry O'Dwyer.

The movie begins with a woman called Amanda(Bracken) who gets a call to come and visit her grandmother, Harriet, who is not very well. A friend of hers called Nick(Hugh Feagin) comes to visit her and she tells him that she is going to her hometown of Allerton. She hasn't been there for thirteen years after her mother was murdered. Amanda witnessed it but the killer did not kill her too. Amanda goes to visit the grandmother and she meets Doctor Crawther(Jim Harrell). He tells her that Harriet is very ill. Amanda meets Judge Stemple(Gene Ross) and he tells her about a local  man called Claude Kearn(O'Dwyer). The judge tells her that Kearn wants her grandmother's house once she passes away.

Amanda is not happy about her grandmother's state of health. She calls Nick. She receives a weird phone call from someone who is watching her. Grandma mumbles something about a museum. Amanda goes to visit the local museum and she meets Claude. He shows her a mannequin that looks exactly like her mother. She finds this odd.  Afterwards, Kearn visits the judge and they talk about what the judge and Crawther did to Harriet. The Judge goes to visit Amanda and he tells he that he also wants the house. She refuses to sell it. He is not happy with her. Crawther is called to the musuem at night and he is supposed to meet the judge, He gets killed by Kearn.

Kearn is sick. He calls Amanda and he tells her that her mother was evil and that she deserved to die. Amanda is scared. A woman called Annie turns up at the house. She asks about Harriet. Amanda gets another phone call. Kearn threatens her. He wants her to do strange things for him while he plays with his doll. She calls Nick but he is busy and he tells her to get some sleep. Kearn spikes her drink and the Judge shows up . He gets hit on the head by Kearn. Amanda wakes up and she looks for Nick. Kearn calls her again. She tells him that he is sick. The Judge shows up and confronts her. She thinks that he is the one who called her. She tells him about the sick calls. The judge goes to talk to Kearn and meets his end.

Amanda is upset. Nick follows her and she kills him in a moment of madness. She has lost the plot and is crazy. The phone rings and it is Kearn. He won't stop calling her. Amanda just laughs now. She is mad. This was a fun film. It had an interesting story and some weirdness. I recommend it as it is enjoyable. I will give it a 5/10.