SYNOPSIS: You’ve seen the story through the eyes of the law… Now see it through the eyes of The Manson Family REVIEW: “The Manson Family”, filmed under the title “Charlie’s Family”, is a wild, brutal, shocking, psychedelic, unique experience in film, a sensory overload of mayhem and depravity. It is a film with true power; I was practically in shock …
Read More »Interview: Madelina Horn (The Profane Exhibit)
What do you think the relationship is between sex and horror? MH: They both play on the same idea of taboos + boundary pushing. They both attract the same kind of curiosity from the hearts of humanity. Since society is still largely based on religious moral standards, we see both sex + violence as taboo + wrong, yet are instinctively …
Read More »Interview: Author Adam Pepper
Hi Adam, thanks for agreeing to do the interview. How would you describe your writing? I bring a dark and cynical perspective to my work. Whether I’m writing about a superhuman fetus, a spoiled society chick/cokehead or a two-bit hoodlum in love with a mob boss’s daughter, there’s always a piece of my own personal worldview in my work. What …
Read More »Interview: Seregon O’Dassey
Seregon O’Dassey is an actress, model, and scream queen. She has acted in a lot of horror films but has a very diverse resume that also includes work on various soap operas. What I find particularly interesting is that Seregon at one point worked at a funeral home, and her job involved reconstructing corpses so that they look presentable for …
Read More »Film Review: A Day Without Policemen (Mou jing shi fen) (1993) – CAT III
SYNOPSIS: Simon Yam plays a former big city cop who had a very bad experince with an AK-47. So he’s been assigned duty on one of the Hong Kong Islands as a police chief of a small village. He spends most of his time drinking beer and smoking hash while daydreaming. But when a group of thugs armed with AK-47’s …
Read More »Film Review: Rape in Public Sea (1993) – CAT III
SYNOPSIS: A group of bad guys kill a bunch of innocent people, and rape and kill a woman in front of her husband. The bad guys are from Hong Kong, their victims Vietnamese. The Vietnamese surviving victims band together to take revenge on the bad guys. There is a lot of gratuitous sex, fighting, shooting, raping, violence, and breasts. It’s …
Read More »Film Review: Beautiful Teacher in Torture Hell (1985) – CAT III
Rate This Movie Oniroku Dan: Bikyoshi jigokuzeme (original title) SYNOPSIS: Ran Masaki plays a beautiful teacher who is transferred to a remote mountain school where she is gang-raped and abused by the male students. REVIEW: Plot: Completely irrelevant. The disc does not come with subtitles, which is a moot point because they would be useless. When subtitles are irrelevant you …
Read More »Horrors of Humanity: Atrocious Crimes
Who says films don’t influence crime? And who cares anyway? In California, a large man wearing a Michael Meyer Halloween mask raped a woman while carrying a large knife. Donald Pleasance was not there to try and shoot him. There’s an old Roald Dahl story called “Lambs to the Slaughter” in which a woman beats her husband to death with …
Read More »Serial Killers: Arthur Shawcross
Shawcross was a sadistic cannibal necrophile pedophile serial killer. He claimed that his childhood was filled with rape, torture, forced incest and other types of abuse. After he was drafted into the army to fight in Vietnam, his atrocities continued. He claimed that he killed, raped and ate two Vietcong women and killed a string of underage prostitutes. He returned …
Read More »Horrors of Humanity: Gore and Vomit
Gore and vomit have always had a relationship, with truly gory films such as the Guinea Pig movies and the August Underground films inducing gallons of vomit across the planet. Director Lucifer Valentine has combined the two ‘hobbies’ into a new genre he calls ‘vomit gore’. They feature vomit, and may cause the viewer to join in. I made it …
Read More »Book Review: Infernal Device – Author Erik Ruhling
INFERNAL DEVICE: Beautiful Machines of Agony By Erik Ruhling Publication Date: 2007 Format: Full Color 96 pages Price: $14.95 Pear of Anguish is one terrifying-looking torture device. Imagine sticking an umbrella up someone’s ass- and then opening it. The Pear is inserted into any orifice- vagina, anus, mouth, etc. Once inside, the torturer pulls a switch and the pear begins …
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