It was five years ago today that I was lucky enough to work on my first physical media release, the Urban Legend Trilogy from @88films.bsky.social and I’m eternally grateful to Dave Wain for giving me that chance. Sometimes it really does just take that one opportunity, so thank you so much! 🤩
Born on this day in 1943: American horror director Tobe Hooper!
(Texas Chain Saw Massacre, The Funhouse, Lifeforce, Poltergeist, Eaten Alive)
#tobehooper #texaschainsawmassacre #deathtrap #eatenalive #thefunhouse #videonasty #80shorror #cultfilm #poltergeist
Released during this month in 1973:
Abducted | USA | Don Jones
Several girls go missing in California, finding themselves at the mercy of Frank and John, two brothers under the control of their enigmatic mother...
#abducted #schoolgirlsinchains #70shorror #cultfilm #videonasty #donjones
Born on this day in 1947: Italian actor/writer/director Ciro Ippolito!
(Alien 2: On Earth, Flavia the Heretic, Annie, Napoli... The Camorra Challenges, the City Hits Back, Vanilla and Chocolate)
#ciroippolito #alienterror #alien2onearth #flaviatheheretic #italianhorror #cultfilm
Born on this day in 1946: American cult director Don Dohler!
(The Alien Factor, Fiend, Nightbeast, Galaxy Invader, Blood Massacre)
#dondohler #nightbeast #videonasty #fiend #thealienfactor #galaxyinvader #bloodmassacre
Released on this day in 1971:
Cain's Cutthroats | USA | Ken Osborne
Justice Cain's old Confederate buddies ask him to rejoin their ranks. After he rejects them, they murder his family and leave him for dead, kickstarting a long journey for vengeance...
#cainscutthroats #70s #johncarradine #western
Born on this day in 1933: Scottish cult actor Charles Borromel!
(Absurd, Caligula: The Untold Story, War of the Planets, House of Lost Souls)
#charlesborromel #absurd #videonasty #houseoflostsouls #caligula #italianhorror
Released on this day in 1971:
Short Night of Glass Dolls | Italy | Aldo Lado
Journalist Gregory Moore is discovered unresponsive in Prague. Moore however is merely paralyzed, remembering how the vanishing of his lover has led to this moment...
#shortnightofglassdolls #giallo #aldolado #jeansorel
Born on this day in 1953: Italian model and actress Dalila Di Lazzaro!
(Flesh for Frankenstein, Night Train Murders, The Pyjama Girl Case, Phenomena)
#daliladilazzaro #nighttrainmurders #fleshforfrankenstein #videonasty #phenomena #pyjamagirlcase
This is one giallo film worth discovering, such as interesting little curio 🤩 and I’m not kidding with the main theme tune, I was humming it for weeks!
Rounding off a wonderful Halloween with the one and the only… going to double bill it with Halloween II just like when I was a child… I love this time of year ❤️
31 Days of Halloween: Day 9
Halloween 5 | USA | Dominique Othenin-Girard
Surviving his shooting, Michael Myers reawakens a year later to continue his sinister talking of niece Jamie and those surrounding her…
#halloween5 #michaelmyers #80sslasher
31 Days of Halloween: Day 10
Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers | USA | Joe Chappelle
After the death of his niece, Michael Myers returns to Haddonfield for the completion of a mysterious ritual, revealing the malevolent Curse of Thorn and its cultists…
#halloween6 #michaelmyers #90sslasher
Released on this day in 1974:
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre | USA | Tobe Hooper
During a country drive to visit a cemetery, a small gathering of friends happen upon a lonely farmstead, blissfully unaware of the cannibalistic family dwelling inside...
#texaschainsawmassacre #tobehooper #videonasty
Released on this day in 1974:
Black Christmas | Canada | Bob Clark
A sorority house is plagued over the Christmas holidays by obscene phone calls. After one of the students goes missing, the girls begin to suspect the caller is closer to home than first realised...
#blackchristmas #christmashorror
31 Days of Halloween: Day 11
Night of the Demons | USA | 1988 | Kevin S. Tenney
Desperate to impress her classmates, outcast Angela arranges a Halloween party at a sinister mortuary, only for a seance to invite demonic forces to crash the party…
#nightofthedemons #80shorror #halloween
Released during this month in 1977:
Fight For Your Life | USA | Robert A. Endelson
After escaping a prison transfer, a virulent racist and his cohorts invade the home of a black pastor, abusing his family until tensions explode in a maelstrom of violence...
#fightforyourlife #70shorror #videonasty
Born on this day in 1962: Italian actress Margie Newton!
(Zombie Creeping Flesh, The Last Hunter, Final Executioner, Adventures of Hercules)
#margienewton #italianfilm #videonasty #hellofthelivingdead
Born on this day in 1943: American cult actress Lin Shaye!
(A Nightmare on Elm Street, Critters, Alone in the Dark, The Hidden)
#linshaye #insidious #80shorror #nightmareonelmstreet #critters #screamqueen
31 Days of Halloween: Day 12
May | USA | 2002 | Lucky McKee
Struggling to connect with others around her, May’s life becomes fraught with heartbreak and isolation until she remember her mother’s advice to “make a friend”…
#00shorror #may2002 #horror
Released on this day in 1977:
Prey | UK | Norman J. Warren
An extraterrestrial being descends to Earth and assumes the identity Anders. When a local lesbian couple take the mysterious stranger in, tensions slowly escalate over his intentions...
#prey #britishhorror #normanjwarren #videonasty
31 Days of Halloween: Day 13
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark | USA/Canada | 2019 | André Øvredal
One Halloween night, a group of teenagers locate a book of short gruesome tales in an abandoned haunted house, only for the narratives inside to bleed into reality...
#scarystoriestotellinthedark
Born on this day in 1944: German cult actor Udo Kier!
(Flesh for Frankenstein, Blood for Dracula, House on Straw Hill, Mark of the Devil)
#udokier #videonasty #fleshforfrankenstein #houseonstrawhill #markofthedevil
31 Days of Halloween: Day 14
Hellbent | USA | 2004 | Paul Etheredge-Ouzts
A small group of gay friends prepare to attend a Halloween carnival in West Hollywood, only for their merriment to be interrupted by a murderous maniac wearing a devil costume...
#hellbent #gayhorror #00shorror #slasher
Released on this day in 1981:
Evil Dead | USA | Sam Raimi
A small group of young adults head to a countryside cabin for rest and recreation, only to inadvertently unleash arcane spirits that possess the living and the forest surrounding them...
#evildead #videonasty #80shorror #brucecampbell
Released on this day in 1982:
Unhinged | USA | Don Gronquist
After a car accident, three young girls wake up in a remote mansion, being looked after by the Penrose family. When strange events occur on the property, the trio slowly realise they are in danger...
#unhinged #80shorror #videonasty
Released on this day in 1992:
Critters 4 | USA | Rupert Harvey
After locating the last two Krite eggs, Charlie is blasted out into space with the specimens, awakening 50 years in the future when the pod is found, unleashing the Krites on an abandoned space station...
#critters4 #90shorror
31 Days of Halloween: Day 15
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later | USA | 1998 | Steve Miner
Two decades after Michael Myers returned to Haddonfield, Laurie Strode lives under a new identity in California, wracked with fear that her brother will catch up to her...
#halloweenh20 #michaelmyers #90shorror
Released on this month in 1981:
Absurd | Italy | Joe D'Amato
After injuring himself on a fence trellis, a mysterious man is hospitalised and determined to have monstrous regenerative powers before he escapes and undertakes a violent murder spree...
#absurd #italianhorror #videonasty #80shorror
Born on this day in 1954: British actress Catriona MacColl!
(City of the Living Dead, The Beyond, House by the Cemetery, Lady Oscar)
#catrionamaccoll #italianhorror #videonasty #luciofulci