HORRORTALES.666 Part 2 (2021)
REVIEW BY RYAN READING
Horrortales.666 Part 2 starts with Joel D. Wynkoop reprising his role as the burglar. The burglar was just released from prison after a 15 year bid. As an unsuspecting homeowner leaves her residence, the burglar breaks in. While searching the home for gold and other valuables, he begins to hear the house speaking to him and soon enough starts seeing apparitions.
WHO'S THERE? (2021) / DEVIANT (2021)
REVIEW BY GORE FILTH
This is the first double feature type of review I’m doing for 2 gory short movies and the first one up is “Who’s There?” directed by Bill Cate. This 11 minute short starts off with a maniac played by Mr. Cate himself playing with dolls in a handmade cardboard dollhouse! He’s pretending these little girl dolls are having a slumber party and being stalked by an unseen killer and the way it’s done is completely hilarious and gets super bloody too!
FORCED ENTRY (2020)
REVIEW BY GORE FILTH
This 25 minute short is not to be confused with the infamous pornographic “roughie” from 1974 starring Harry Reams. This short movie is directed by, KM Jamison and James Bett Jr and was inspired by the story of an actual team of serial killers known as the “Toolbox Killers” that raped and murdered women during a stretch of 1979, and even took lots of pictures and made audio recordings of their crimes!
BURGLAR FROM HELL (1993)
REVIEW BY GORE FILTH
In this grimy piece of shot on video trash treasure from 1993, a burglar named Frank “The Tank” who after tearing out the throat of a nosy neighborhood watchman played by director Phil Herman himself, breaks into an old woman’s house and slaps her around looking for money and jewels, but she turns the tables on Frank and blasts him in the chest with a shotgun and before he dies says, “Heaven is scared of me, hell won’t have me!”!
KILLER CAMPOUT (2005)
REVIEW BY GORE FILTH
This movie is not to be confused with the 2017 movie directed by Brad Twigg. This one was made 12 years prior and was directed by Frank Durant who also directs under the name, Victor Franko. I remember I had watched this movie on YouTube years ago mistakenly thinking I was watching the other movie before I had known who directed it!
AN HOUR TO KILL (2018)
REVIEW BY GORE FILTH
Directed by Aaron K. Carter, this anthology movie is about 2 hit men who are given specific instructions not to take out a specific target for exactly 1 hour, so having AN HOUR TO KILL, they decide to tell each other nasty stories to pass the time.
RETURN TO SPLATTER FARM (2020)
REVIEW BY GORE FILTH
Back in 1987, a very young and talented brother team of Mark and John Polonia, along with their good friend Todd Michael Smith (who also did a great job playing the very psychotic Jeremy) got together and made one of the best shot on video horror/gore movies I’ve ever seen, SPLATTER FARM!
PSYCHO APE (2020)
REVIEW BY GORE FILTH
When director, Addison Binek offered to send me the screener for this bloody killer ape movie, I was really excited to see it because I’m a huge fan of gore-ridden killer ape movies like Night Of The Bloody Apes (1969) and The Bloody Ape (1997)!
DISMEMBERED (2020)
REVIEW BY GORE FILTH
While director, Rob Ceus was finishing up his feature length zombie gorefest, “Zombies From Sector 9”, he made this absolutely incredible short with a killer story and filled with gallons of gore and an incredibly creepy atmosphere to match! A man gets the horrific news that his wife and child are dead, but the authorities believe it’s no accident.
NEIGHBOR No. 9 (2020)
REVIEW BY GORE FILTH
I was a little familiar with the work of Austrian director, Wilhelm Muller from his segments that appeared on the Tony Newton-produced anthology, “Gore Grind” and it was some really gory, bizarre, and blasphemous stuff. Now I’m sent his newest 20 minute short of depravity and DAMN he does not disappoint!
NECROMAN (2019)
REVIEW BY GORE FILTH
This 12 minute Turkish short movie is directed by Ercan Er and is about Ali, who witnesses the brutal murder of his sisters 40 years ago and the impact it has on him all those years later. Turns out Ali has his apartment decorated with corpses propped up in chairs with fresh clothes on to replicate the family he lost all of those years ago.
REVIEW BY GORE FILTH
A few years ago, I had bought a 10 dvd custom box set from Screamtime Films and one of the movies on it was a bloody Christmas slasher short called Axemas. Not only did it have some bloody and creative kills, but also a lot of love for old fashioned shot on video horror. Not too long after, the movie’s director, John Ward sent me Axemas 2 for a review and just recently he sent me his contribution to the Meathook Massacre series, Meathook Massacre 4.
REVIEW BY RYAN READING
Scott (played by writer/director Todd Jason Falcon Cook) and his friend Nick (played by Rik Deskin) are trying to use the occult to summon life into a doll. They have gathered the ingredients needed, have their magic book ready, but accidentally cast the incorrect spell.
REVIEW BY RYAN READING
I have always been intrigued by death row last meals. John Wayne Gacy requested 12 fried shrimp, a bucket of fried chicken from KFC, French fries, and a pound of strawberries. Timothy McVeigh, two pints of mint chocolate chip ice cream. My favorite of all, though, is Robert Alton Harris. He ordered 21 pieces of KFC, two large Domino’s pizzas, a bag of jellybeans, a six pack of Pepsi, and a pack of Camel cigarettes.
REVIEW BY GORE FILTH
Years ago, a good friend of mine sent me a great collection of gory short movies and one of the stand out shorts was called “Bride Zombie”. This EXTREMELY gory and well-shot short was directed by Rob Ceus from Belgium. I eventually got into contact with Rob and bought 2 other shorts he made, “Slime” and “The Writer”.
REVIEW BY GORE FILTH
This movie right here is a SUPER throwback to 80's and 90's shot on video horror! Shot entirely on an old Magnavox VHS camcorder, so no filters here! This movie really screams VHS-worship of the highest degree for sure. It starts off with a fake pizza commercial followed by a trailer for a movie called “Bathtub Shark Attack” so right away you know you’re in for some back to basics cheesy VHS horror goodness!
REVIEW BY GORE FILTH
I’ve seen some pretty cool Amityville movies, but as someone obsessed with extreme sleaze and gore, THIS one speaks to me the most! I was told by a very reliable source that this was in fact one of the sleaziest movies they had ever seen, and I was NOT disappointed at all! Not even a little bit!
REVIEW BY RYAN READING
So, what’s up with SOV movies from Vegas? There are so many incredible ones! After revisiting Soul of the Demon, I needed to watch High Desert for the first time to complete the Charles Lang double feature.
REVIEW BY MADELINE DEERING
Years and years ago when I rented Carnage: The Legend of Quiltface, I saw a trailer for a SOV movie Brain Damage Films released called Hell’s Highway. I was obsessed with finding a copy ever since. The trailer showed Ron Jeremy, some amazing gore, and it looked like a ton of fun! On Easter one year I finally rented it on Amazon. Needless to say, I was not disappointed.
REVIEW BY RYAN READING
Have you ever wondered what would happen if Dracula, Frankenstein, Mummy, Wolfman, and a guy named Humper were buried alive in a cave? No? Well, me either, but Gerald Cormier wrote and directed this wonderful, seemingly, lost SOV treasure to tell such a tale.
REVIEW BY RYAN READING
Peter is a weak-willed-mama’s boy. He is trying to survive, while living with his overbearing mother. For breakfast, he eats sardines and washes it down with milk. The movie is already off to a frightening start with this diabolic breakfast concoction. His mother yells at him to get the store and buy more sardines and milk.
SOUL OF THE DEMON (1991)REVIEW BY RYAN READING
Two Misfits shirts, two large pizzas, two bodies ripped apart at the torso, and two big influences: Evil Dead and Night of the Demons.Soul of the Demon was shot in 1991, but feels like the 80’s; lots of bad hair and scrunched up crew socks.
REVIEW BY RYAN READING
Sam Butler just closed the deal of a lifetime at his Sacramento office. He is so excited he has decided to surprise his pregnant wife with the sports car she has been dreaming of! He buys the new car and hits the road to meet her at their second home in Las Vegas! Unfortunately, for Sam, Ruthie is having an affair.
REVIEW BY MADELINE DEERING
Someone is murdering nurses, stabbing them to death and mutilating them. He believes these women to be someone from his past named “Linda,” but why? Linda could be anybody! Two detectives try and solve the crime before he can commit any more murders.
REVIEW BY RYAN READING
Take a walk with me, if you will, it is 1993. Jurassic Park is the number one movie, but instead of hanging out with Jeff Goldblum and crew, I am in Todd Town! That’s right, Todd Sheets! We are entering the low-budget, SOV, masterpiece that is Zombie Bloodbath!
REVIEW BY DAVE SLOANE
The Camp Blood clown killer is back, but this time from beyond the grave. When the host of a ghost hunting show acquires the mask of the now deceased clown killer he accidentally conjures up the evil spirit. Now, along with a team of amateur ghost hunters, he must put the clown’s spirit to rest before they all fall victim to the Ghost of Camp Blood.
REVIEW BY DAVE SLOANE
Another group of kids get stuck in the woods with the evil machete wielding killer clown.
REVIEW BY DAVE SLOANE
Betsy receives a call from her father (George Stover) informing her that he fears her brother has joined a satanic cult. Upon further investigation it is revealed that not only did he join a cult but that he is also possessed by the spirit of the Camp Blood clown and is now stalking the woods looking for victims.
REVIEW BY DAVE SLOANE
Raven travels back to Camp Blood to seek revenge against the sadistic clown who murdered her friends.
REVIEW BY DAVE SLOANE
On their way to a concert a group of teens decide to spend the night in the woods of Camp Blood. They soon find themselves on the run from the murderous machete wielding killer clown.
REVIEW BY DAVE SLOANE
A group of college kids set off into the woods with a bunch of camera equipment (ala Blair Witch Project) to prove once and for all that the legend of the killer clown of Camp Blood is just a myth. The problem is the clown is in fact real, but in a twist the clown is actually killed by another latex masked psycho. Now our new Camp Blood killer straps a camera to their head, hits the record button and goes on a slash-o-palooza.
REVIEW BY TONY MASIELLO
Helen Black is a lonely repressed religious fanatic who is saving herself for marriage. That is until she stumbles across a strange puppet in an old curio shop. The doll has the ability to grant the owner their hearts-felt wish, but at a sinister price.
REVIEW BY DAVE SLOANE
A group of high school girls get together for a slumber party weekend to celebrate spring break. Unfortunately though someone plans on crashing the party and he's brought his drill with him. Can the girls survive the Teenage Slumber Party Nightmare?
REVIEW BY TONY MASIELLO
Sarah and Muzzy have a big problem, they are slowly rotting to death due to a virus Sarah contracted why sleeping with a corpse. Now the punk rock duo must find a way to cure themselves before they rot away into nothing, or even worse, create a massive world-wide epidemic.
REVIEW BY TODD SHEETS
Zombarella's House of Whorrors was a blast, a true throwback to those crazy days of cable access channels and SOV movies. All Mixed into a stew of sleazy splatter, done with obvious love and heartfelt homage to those who did as much as they could with little money on any gear we could find.
REVIEW BY TONY MASIELLO
A couple friends on a road trip make a stop in a small town that happens to be the center of an alien invasion. Soon after they find themselves trapped and the only way out is to stop the flesh hungry visitors before all the inhabitants of Earth become lunch.
DEATH O'LANTERN (2011)
REVIEW BY TONY MASIELLO
It's Halloween season and the kids of Sleepy Hollow Heights are being stalked by an ancient evil. They're being methodically picked off one by one by the spirit of a dead child killer named Stingy Jack. Now it's up to the fearless band of misfits, known as the Horror Club, to stop the evil pumpkin-headed killer before he devours the five souls he needs to be born again.
REVIEW BY TONY MASIELLO
Two species of aliens have been fighting a secret war on Earth for thousands of years. One group wants to co-exist with the humans while the other wants to destroy them.
When a television reporter, Megan Cross (played by the always lovely Debbie Rochon), starts to look further into the alien agenda she discovers that not only are the aliens here, but she is actually in a relationship with one.
REVIEW BY TONY MASIELLO
Two rival gangs are at war on the mean streets of Kansas City. During one of their brawls the gangs' war spills over into an old movie theater. When the punks are confronted by the owners they are shown the door, but unfortunately for them the exits are now mysteriously sealed off. Trapped inside the theater, the street hooligans decide to kill the poor owners. In doing so, they release an evil witch whose spirit has been trapped within the walls of the movie house.
REVIEW BY TONY MASIELLO
A horror novelist is plagued by nightmares while trying to finish his latest book about a killer clown doll. His family goes away on vacation so he can try to finish the book without any distractions, but when he receives a mysterious package one evening he finds himself stalked by the same doll from his story.
REVIEW BY TONY MASIELLO
A mad lunatic escapes from prison and breaks into the home of a young teen. The deranged maniac then finds a Freddy Kruegar mask (and later a hockey mask), puts it on, and starts to stalk his unaware victim. Violence commences.
REVIEW BY TONY MASIELLO
A small town is besieged by a horde of strange monsters who have escaped from a local research lab and go on a blood-soaked rampage. Can these genetically mutated monsters be stopped? Or will they consume all the big and busty inhabitants of the town.
REVIEW BY TONY MASIELLO
A small town is besieged by a group of murderous satanists who are on a mission to raise their demonic god. It's now up to two cops to stop their evil plan before it is too late.
REVIEW BY TONY MASIELLO
The bloodthirsty butcher Gore Filth has captured a sick pedophile named Tom and has him tied up in his backyard for some good old fashion street justice. Aided by his female accomplice, he grabs an electric hedge trimmer and starts to dismember and disembowel the pervert. Afterwards, his blood lust is still unfulfilled so he decides it's time for some self mutilation.
REVIEW BY TONY MASIELLO
Liltih is a psycho prostitute serial killer who likes to wear human skin masks and torture the scummy men she comes across. When she's not torturing and killing jerks she likes to hang with her only friend Eve (Krystal Shenk). But soon the girls find themselves in their own living nightmare when they are pursued by a sadistic rapist named Jackson.
REVIEW BY TONY MASIELLO
Today we are taking a look at a new SOV anthology from Kentucky filmmakers, The Josh Brothers (Josh Terry and Josh Wright) The Cremation Station.
While channel surfing, a young horror fan comes across a mysterious late night cable show called The Cremation Station hosted by the wisecracking Dr Casket. During the program The Doc presents three horror tales and a couple commercials featuring killer pants, killer dolls, zombies, a crazed slasher, and a possessed treadmill.
REVIEW BY TONY MASIELLO
A trio of sleazoid horn-dogs break into a house inhabited by three beautiful sisters (The Sicole sisters, get it). They then rape and strangle the youngest sister, Janice (played by horror hottie Tina Krause) before making their post coitus escape.
REVIEW BY DAVE SLOANE
Junkfood Horrorfest is a horror anthology directed and hosted by the ghoulish zombie Scarlet Fry. The movie starts off with a Junkie (played by Alice Cooper's daughter) trying to score some junk from a local drug dealer. Instead of drugs he gives her a VHS tape which contains 6 fright tales hosted by the re-animated horror host Scarlet Fry.
REVIEW BY MATT WATTS
Three brothers (two maternal, one step) find themselves home alone for a weekend when their mother has to work a double shift. After one brother, who is of a... diminished mental capacity, has a chance encounter with a neighboring monk (You read that right), the boys each begin to experience strange dreams, until their nightmares converge and spill over into reality. Will the brothers be able to band together and survive the horror, or will they succumb to their HALLUCINATIONS?
REVIEW BY TONY MASIELLO
Marv decides to throw a movie marathon pizza party for his friends, consisting of the most gory and gruesome movies he can find online. The group of friends (all played by Bellamy) have a gory good time until Marv discovers that he forgot about one VHS tape. A tape adorned with a label made of human flesh! The friends put on the VHS, which besides it's abstract and gory images, also contains a warning that anyone who watches it will be cursed by Satan. Now the friends must fight for their survival before they become the next victims of The Tape Of Karma!
REVIEW BY TONY MASIELLO
A couple of yuppies named Chuck (Andrew Nichols) and Buck (Louie Bonanno) decide to look for a little adulterous action at a mysterious brothel called Madam Mondo's Zombie Fantasy Ranch.
The duo are both married to smoking hot wives (Connie Woods, and Scream Queen Legend Michelle Bauer!), but Chuck (the sleazebag of the two) convinces Buck (the happy husband) to accompany him on the trip regardless.
REVIEW BY TONY MASIELLO
In 1967 on Easter Day, young Peter sees the Easter Bunny decapitate his older sister. 20 years later, Peter and a group on five friends venture off to his father's cabin that he recently inherited to party it up for Easter weekend. Though soon after arriving, Peter is plagued with visions of the Easter Bunny and his friends start to slowly disappear, one by one.
REVIEW BY TONY MASIELLO
Twisted Tales is a horror anthology from Kevin J. Lindenmuth's, Brimstones Pictures, featuring 3 horror tales in the EC comics styles. Each tale is directed by a different filmmaker including Lindenmuth, frequent collaborator Mick McCleery, and Rita Klus.
REVIEW BY TONY MASIELLO
We open on a crazed guy (Charles Pinion) in an old dark cellar clutching a metal crown of spikes, tightly gripped in his hands. He has a look of madness in his eyes as he suddenly starts bashing himself in the skull with the crown. In shadow, we see him repeatedly smash the weapon into his cranium as blood spurts all over the dirty walls.
REVIEW BY TONY MASIELLO
After an altercation with some local punks, a straight edged skateboarder is hit by a car and killed. Soon after, a wacky doctor and his equally crazed assistant come across the body and decided to bring it back to life. This happens after they contemplate if they should have sex with the corpse first. The pair of wackos then decide to graft skin from the skater's face to his injured leg, leaving the skater a deformed monstrosity.
REVIEW BY TONY MASIELLO
For those unfamiliar with Lisa Cook, she was the wife (now ex) of Texas based SOV pioneer Todd Jason Falcon Cook (Evil Night, Death Metal Zombies). Her first acting role was in Todd's 1992 awesome debut feature, Evil Night. The story of a nerd who, with the use of a formula that gives him telekinesis, exacts a bloody revenge of the classmates who ridiculed him.
REVIEW BY TONY MASIELLO
Satan's Place is a rare SOV horror anthology directed by Scott Aschbrenner and Alfred Ramirez that was produced in 1988. The movie contains four comedic horror stories that are tied together by a wraparound with a young woman who meets the main characters of each story, while she is the main character of the last. So let's take a look at this wickedly fun SOV story by story.
REVIEW BY TONY MASIELLO
A group of six friends head out to a country lake house for some rest, relaxation, partying and water skiing. Little do they know that in a nearby shed a killer is lurking and stalking them one by one.
There isn't much of a plot to Blood Lake, it follows the typical 80's slasher formula: Group of isolated teens go out for a party weekend and are dispatched by a vengeful killer ....
REVIEW BY TONY MASIELLO
When young Nigel's father died, he was told it's okay because his dad is in a much happier place now. Nigel takes this quite literally and the next thing you know he is killing everyone in sight to help them find that happy place. Wearing a gas mask and equipped with his trusty rake, Nigel goes on a rampage of happiness across the Virginia countryside as he is pursued by the police and his brother Chubby.
REVIEW BY TONY MASIELLO
Horrorgirl is a weird, noisy, industrial goth band led by the sultry Creatura (Ghetty Chasun, star of Gorotica and Red Lips) that is just dying to get a break. They're behind on their rent and their landlord wants to evict them. They have a gun totting pizza boy who wants the money for the pizza they stole from him. Oh, and their new guitarist / keyboardist Fang has just died via electric shock - watch out for those dixie cups of water when rocking.
REVIEW BY MATT HILL
“Flesh tears, bones shatter, the nightmare has begun.” This is what we call a “fucking awesome tagline.” The super cool illustrated artwork showing a theatrical mask being cracked down the middle by a crudely drawn sledgehammer is the icing on the cake. This is the kind of movie where, once you gaze at the cover artwork, notice the title, along with the bloodsoaked, bizarre graphic – you have no choice. You simply have to either rent or purchase that film.
REVIEW BY JOHNNY DICKIE
Among the many companies from the 1980's to distribute low budget and shot on video films to unsuspecting, and most times, disappointed cinema buffs looking for a new grade A horror thriller from their local video store shelves, not many others approached marketing their products quite like Legacy home video. Whole other video labels used lurid and grotesque drawings and pictures to ensnare horror hounds into watching, or at least renting their low-fi video epics, Legacy had another approach in mind.
REVIEW BY TONY MASIELLO
Remember the days when Halloween programing would dominate the airwaves every October? Just about every program on the tube would have some kind of special showcasing the magical night of ghosts, ghoul's, candy and tummy aches. Unfortunately those days are long gone but thanks to filmmaker Chris LaMartina and the fine folks at Camp Motion Pictures you can relive those hauntingly good times again with the WNUF Halloween Special.
REVIEW BY TONY MASIELLO
Kyle Jennings (Director Todd Norris) is a parapsychologist who has a theory that all paranormal activity radiates an energy signal of 12 and 17. He and his fellow researchers are trying to get a grant to continue their work but are rejected by the mean spirited Doctor Cass Charbonneau (Lisa Winegar), a scientist whose specialty is the study of alternate dimensions.
REVIEW BY TONY MASIELLO
A strange planetoid has entered the galaxy and starts orbiting Mars. This causes the weather patterns to go crazy resulting in catastrophic carnage around the globe, as well as a loss of contact with the lunar base on the Moon. A spaceship, Omega 1, is sent to investigate and figure out what the hell is going on. When they arrive on the lunar base they discover that everyone is dead and decide to blow it up in the hopes of containing whatever it was that caused the lunar massacre.
REVIEW BY TONY MASIELLO
In the Summer of 1999 in the small town of Woodridge Valley 47 mutilated bodies were found and the killer was never apprehended. All that was known of the killers identity was he wore a Jester's outfit. Keith, Etahn (Director Chris LaMartina) and their group of filmmaking friends are on summer vacation and working on their latest SOV opus "It Came From Uranus" when a masked Jester starts killing off their peers.
REVIEW BY TONY MASIELLO
Something very sad happened recently in the world of independent cinema. After almost 30 years of bringing great micro-budget movies to the masses, Tempe Video has decided to close shop. Lead by filmmaker J.R. Bookwalter, Tempe Video was one of the most important independent production companies / distributors of the 90's.
REVIEW BY TONY MASIELLO
It's no secret I'm a huge fan of Hugh Gallagher's work. Not only did he make one of the best SOV trilogies of the 90's (The Gore Trilogy) but he was also the publisher of one of the best independent horror magazines of the 90's, Draculina. So when I started the S.O.V. The True Independents project, Hugh was one of the first filmmakers I contacted to be part of the it.
