Blue Collar (1978)

Paul Schrader (Taxi Driver, Hardcore) writes and directs this racially charged tale of three union workers. Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel and Yaphett Kotto (Truck Turner) are three working stiffs who just can't get by in the rat race. Their families rely on them for financial support and their union isn't making them rich. After a night of cocaine, alcohol and prostitutes the three men decide to perform a heist and steal the safe from their very own union office. The men find themselves in more trouble then the bargained for when they learn what is in the safe. The safe holds information of illegal happenings within the union.

Watching Pryor and Keitel together is amazing on its own. Throw Yaphett Kotto in there and there is no way the movie can go wrong. Pryor does his thing and fills the screen with energy and witty dialogue while Keitel plays the perfect role of a desperate working class man with not much to lose. Blue Collar deals in intense social messages ranging from race, class and of course position. These three working class friends are being held down by the corrupt politicians and rich union foremen. They feel their backs are against the wall and the only way to get ahead is to resort to crime but the big criminals are the men in the suits and ties who have a lot more power and are a lot more dangerous. " They pit the lifers against the new boy and the young against the old. The black against the white. Everything they do is to keep us in our place."

I Spit On Your Grave (1959)

Not to be mistaken for the 1978 rape/revenge movie of the same title but this French exploitation flick is also the tale of revenge. This one has a pretty unique plot. It stars Christian Marquand from And God Created Woman, who plays Joe Grant. Joe is a light skinned black man and his brother is lynched by the racist towns-folk after being accused of raping a white woman, who was his soon to be bride. Joe leaves town and plots out a revenge in the name of his brother but instead finds himself in the same situation.
I Spit On Your Grave (1959) is a hard film to categorize because its almost like a early sexploition film in the fact that it is so sexually charged with lots of pretty women in teasing skimpy clothing. There is also a bit of nudity on display. Its also almost a early blaxploitation film due to the subject matter and racial tension within the film.
One thing that I picked up on was a coincidence with the 1978 film. There is a line in this movie that strikes a big similarity with the tagline for Meir Zarchi's film. "There isn't a jury in America that will convict you". The brilliant exploitation tagline for the 78' film states "There isn't a Jury in America that will convict her for what she's done...". Can't help but wonder if this connection was done purposely.
I Spit On Your Grave (1959) is exploitive and yet has a sense of class to it, with nice cinematography and good acting. The girls are attractive and a bit of violence helps this one moving along. It also has an amazingly realistic scene where a black man is set on fire and the camera doesn't cut away. We see the body burn up, completely smothered in flames.
For some reason this one reminded me or Sam Fuller's Shock Corridor. Check it out for something a little different.

I'll Kill You... I'll Bury You... I'll Spit On Your Grave Too! (1995)

It'a shot on video (S.O.V.) and it looks like it came out in the late 80's early 90's. Either way the movie pretty much sucks. Five of the ugliest people you could ever cast in a film take off to some shit-hole cabin in the middle of nowhere and they start getting killed off one by one by a slasher maniac in a army get-up that was ripped off from the far superior Slasher flick The Prowler.

With a title like I'll Kill You... I'll Bury You... I'll Spit On Your Grave Too!, it is obvious that they are trying to suggest this is some kind of a sequel to the amazing Meir Zarchi Rape/Revenge 1978 cult classic I Spit On Your Grave. Of course it is all just a marketing scheme and the two films have absolutely no relation. I picked this one up a long time ago in a boxset of mainly shot on video throw away movies. The boxset itself was marketed with I Spit On Your Grave in mind. The set was called I Dance On Your Grave and the best film in the whole crappy set is a movie called Killing Spree. I guess the DVD packaging worked because I was drawn to the title and cool cover art and that's why I was forced to sit through garbage video movies like this one.
I'll Spit On Your Grave Too has a pretty cool opening with a couple having sex in a camper until they are interrupted by a psycho with a chainsaw. There is a few other entertaining gore scenes. One involves a wood chipper and the blood and meat goes flying and splatters all over a pickup truck. Then we get a nice effect involving a pitchfork (again ripping off The Prowler). We also get a not so good looking nympho who can't keep her clothes on. There is also a lot of continuity in this one and the acting is horrendous. So unless you have some sort of sick fetish for really bad s.o.v. movies with awful acting, ugly people and a generic plot, I would stay far away from this one.

Deadgirl (2008)

This one hit close to home with the story of two teenage boys who break into a local abandoned mental institution and find a Deadgirl... Or is she? The reason this film appealed to me at first is because when I was a teenager my friends and I would break into our local abandoned psycho ward. We spent lots of time in that place the only difference is we never found a corpse and we most certainly never fucked it.

At first the girl appears to be dead, the two boys soon learn that the girl is living and breathing but instead of calling the police, the kids decide to keep it a secret. One decides to have a little fun with the girl and he gets his pervy little rocks off. During his sexcapades he snaps the girls neck and it doesn't affect her. Once the kids learn she is a zombie their troubles really begin. One of them wants to call the police but his horny friend wont allow it. The Deadgirl is raped repeatedly and its not long before the secret is spread to other equally sick and horny friends. The teenage boys sink deeper and deeper into depravity and eventually decide to kidnap other girls and bring them to their secret place where they can turn them into other Deadgirl sex slaves.

Deadgirl offers a bit of blood and guts but nothing to overly excessive. We get a exploding diarrhea scene with intestines splashing all over a toilet seat and bathroom stall floor, we get a zombie blowjob complete with castration, a hand is dismembered with a machete, bullet wounds with green gooey puss pouring out, a upper lip is bitten off, faces are beaten bloody and a dog is ripped apart.
Still Deadgirl only comes off disturbing with the corpse fucking scenes and the rest of the movie is unintentionally humorous. Not the worst movie ever made and its worth a watch at least once. There isn't much replay value to this one but most movies made these days aren't worth a watch at all. Its not Nekromantik but its better then any shitty Resident Evil movie.

Hell Penitentiary (1984)

This one is easily confused by another film of the same title. It came out the same year from the same director and has some of the same cast members. The other film however is better known as Hell Behind Bars. This Italian slice of Eurotrash is a women in prison (W.I.P.) movie with lots of sex.

In fact there is so much graphic sex in it with close-ups on genitals and nipple sucking that the print I picked up is labeled "softcore erotica". I however didn't find it to be to far from what I am used to seeing in a W.I.P. flick except that the sex scenes go on slightly to long with some really awful soap opera esque music playing behind it. We get plenty of shower scenes, lesbian sex, straight sex, rape & then just nudity for nudity sake. We even get a few swinging dicks for good measures. Aside from the explicit Euro-sex-beavers, we get some torture and murder as well. After all is it really a Women In Prison movie without some whippings and torture scenes? I suppose its not a necessity but it sure makes the viewing a lot more pleasurable.

This one is about a girl who scams the prison system in order to get behind bars and find out what happened to her sister. She eventually learns that her sister was mixed up with some rough characters and was killed by a jealous lover. Now the Innocent girl needs to escape and reveal the sleazy truth to proper authorities to what is really going on. She is subjected to sexual deviance, torture with hot pokers and various beatings. Ajita Willson (Contraband, Sadomania) plays a gang leader who plots out a rebellion escape. As usual its impossible to tell Ajita was born a man and she shows plenty of flesh in this one. Hell Penitentiary also offers up some gun violence, stabbings and some really bad dialogue.
I'm not sure if there is a nicer print available on video but the dvd that I picked up has very soft/faded colors. Other then a few film burps it looks and sounds okay. I found the film in general to be pretty standard, generic stuff other then a really cool scene involving a bulldozer and a crushed couple in a car. Still these W.I.P. films always tend to entertain me.

Mesa Of Lost Women (1953)

Doctor Aranya which is Spanish for Dr. Spider, is a mad scientist with a mad mole on his face. In fact at times it is almost disturbing to look at. Well anyway Dr. Aranya has a new serum derived from spider venom which allowed him to create a new race of women. Women who will live for hundreds of years and have super-long black nails. These women can rejuvenate limbs just as certain insects do and they are very deadly. Dr. Spider is also creating giant Tarantula's for some reason or other and he also has a army of dwarfs.

When a group of people on a plane are held hostage by a lunatic with a gun the plane takes a ridiculous crash landing in the desert of Mesa Mexico. The people have to fight for their lives against the mad scientist and his army of giant spiders, super-women and dwarf's.
Mesa Of Lost Women starts of with a bang. We get very strange opening scene with a woman kissing a man to death all while very unique Spanish guitars and pianos clash in the background. Then the 70 minute movie slows down for a long stint with much to much talky chit chat and not enough action. Eventually the movie picks up again in the last 15 min. or so.

Mesa Of Lost Women offers a strange but very repetitive musical score that at times adds a sense of surreal atmosphere but at others can become pretty annoying. We also get some pretty women and a sort of daring dance number from a sexy spider woman named Tarantella. Tarantella doesn't get naked but does show a lot of leg and even caresses her breasts. We also get giant spiders who leave gaping bite wounds in victims necks. However as I mentioned before, in my opinion the scariest aspect of the film is the giant protruding mole that is growing off of Dr. Spiders face.
Mesa Of Lost Women is in the public domain and the DVD probably only costs about fifty cents. Worth owning for anybody who is into weird Movies From Mars with midgets and monsters.

I Eat Your Skin (1964)

Del Tenney was very busy in 1964. He directed three movies that year. The Horror Of Party Beach, Curse Of The Living Corpse and Zombies. Zombies sat on a shelf, unseen by the world for about six years until the great I Drink Your Blood was released and needed another movie to play as a creature double feature. Zombies name was changed to I Eat Your Skin and a cult film was born.
I Eat Your Skin is cheap, cheesy and no frills but it worked perfect as a second film on a double bill. The Zombies in this one are not the George A. Romero flesh eating Zombies. They are the old school voodoo Zombies but in this one they carry around machete's. One zombie even caries around a giant box of explosives and there is no question to whether or not the box contains explosives because in big bold print, the box says "EXPLOSIVES".
I Eat Your Skin offers up a decapitation by machete (A bit surprising for 1964), a flare gun wound to a stomach, a knife in the back, a decapitated chicken and some pretty girls. We also get some decent special F/X for a low budget flick. Zombie transformations are done Lon Chaney Jr., The Wolf Man style and the Zombies do look pretty cool with decaying flesh and big melted buggely eyes. We also get to see the bullet holes appear in the Zombies chests when they are shot.
I Eat Your Skin isn't the greatest movie ever made but its an entertaining watch. I Drink Your Blood blows it out of the water but the films of Del Tenney have a place in this world and it just so happens that this one belongs right after the end credits of I Drink Your Blood.

Three The Hard Way (1974)

Its kind of hard to believe they could mess this one up. Instead of one we get three of the genre icons. Jim (Slaughter) Brown's girlfriend is kidnapped by a white fascist group whom plots a genocide against the black man. Jim Brown teams up with Jim Kelly (Black Belt Jones) and Fred Williamson from movies like Black Caesar, Legend Of Niger Charlie and Hell Up In Harlem. The three blaxploitation super stars go to war with the white fascists and get Jim Brown's woman back.

The plot is ridiculous and the action scenes are all pretty lame. The movie doesn't even get slightly entertaining until Jim The Dragon Kelly shows up and kicks a bunch of cops ass in a pretty amazing kung fu scene. Kelly blurts out his usual weird keeyah's and refuses to use a gun. Williamson and Brown's characters are both pretty lame and the shoot-em-up scenes get boring and repetitive pretty fast. Three The Hard Way was directed by the same cat who did Super Fly but really lacks in every department. Skip this one and take home Five The Hard Way also know as Sidehackers staring the great Ross Hagen.

Gummo (1997)

Written and directed by 21 year old Harmony Korine (Kids). Gummo is the dark tale of a town that was hit by a tornado, leaving the people financially and mentally damaged. Gummo mainly focus's on the youth and the film depicts directionless kids, lacking in moral and social education.

Most are shocked by the weird, offensive and sometimes disturbing imagery. Depending on your perspective Gummo is a work of beauty or a vile piece of trash. Which ever your opinion be, the shocking images stick with you well after the movie has finished. We see transvestites, plenty of retarded folk, a gay black midget, plenty of white trash, drunken rednecks, violence towards animals, self mutilation, foul moth young children, a chain-smoking kid in pink rabbit ears, retarded prostitutes, glue huffing, eyebrow shaving, etc, etc. This is all strung together with nihilistic monologue from different characters.
Personally I am a big fan of this movie and like it much better then Kids (Which I also like very much). Still I can understand why others might not be interested in this sort of thing. Gummo is filthy in a way that could only be understood after viewing. Its almost as if a awful stink comes off of the screen with the dirty imagery of poverty. The bathtub scene should sum it all up for you.

Black Samson (1974)

Black Samson is kinds like the black version of big Bufford Pusser from the Walking Tall movies. This one came out one year after Walking Tall but it seems as if it was cashing in on the success and bringing it to the Blaxploitation genre. Big Buford doesn't have a giant Lion for a pet but Buford and Samson have a lot in comun. For one, they both carry a big stick and use it as a weapon of choice. They also do their best to keep their streets clean. Their personal politics may be different but the consequences are the same. The mob comes down hard on righteous Samson in order to gain teritory. The only problem is that Black Samson is a sort of messiah on his streets. The people follow him and he does his part to keep drugs and prostitution away from his "brotha's & sista's". 

   

    Marlbro Man, William Smith (Run Angel Run) is known for being a bad-ass and he is the perfect woman beating bad guy in this movie. In one of the most memorable scenes William Smith throws his girlfriend out of a moving car because he suspects she had sex with a black man. 

Blaxploitation veteran Carol Speed, who most would remember best from Abby and The Mack plays Samsons girlfriend in this one and her acting is unique as usual. She gets her breasts slashed up by William Smith's goons and Black Samson learns how loyal his black brothers and sisters are when they join him in his war against the white gangsters.

Black Samson starts off a bit slow but really picks up as the movie runs. We get a coke-head who does a over the top Richard Pryor empression. Lots of fist fights. Disturbing girlfirend beating. Topless dancers, a huge fucking Lion and an amazing climax involving a race war in the streets. Black Samson turns out to be a pretty fun under-rated Blaxploitation flick with some original happenings. Its availible on a four movie set including three Jim Kelly movies. Well worth the five bucks.

                                                                                                               

Hot Potato (1976)

Pretty lame Jim Kelly Kung Fu comedy about four martial artists who band together and kick ass in search of a kidnapped woman. Don't waste your time trying to follow a plot on this one because it is paper thin. Also don't expect this thing to be a Blaxploitation flick because it really isn't at all. In fact there isn't really any exploitation value to this one. Its generally a pretty annoying flick with hokey music playing over Kung Fu scenes. Its filled with bad sound effects and I'm not talking about Jim the dragon Kelly's Keeyah.

Kelly Fans will get their share of ridiculous Kelly-Fu complete with silly faces, crazy leg movements and absurd noises but for me the only value this movie had was a character named Rhino played by George Memmoli from Mean Streets. He doesn't call anyone a Mook in this one but he does run around topless, do some pretty embarrassing dances, get it on with the ladies, has a food eating competition, dishes out some ass whoopins and has one of the silliest looking outfits in any Kung Fu movie. He looks like a cross between a cowboy and a leprechaun. He wears a sort of Pancho with green shorts and different colored striped socks.
Then we get some leotard wearing bad guys who jump from the trees and smash up picnics. A guy is eaten by a tigers but unfortunately the violence is off screen. We don't get any nudity and there is no blood.
You wouldn't be missing much by skipping this one. Its a bad Kung Fu flick and its not a good Jim Kelly flick. Only worth a watch for anyone who feels the need to see George (The Mook) Memmoli in yet another fight scene.

Gorgasm (1990)

Bottom of the barrel shot on video piece of garbage from Hugh Gallagher who would go onto do Gore Whore (Which I have not seen yet) and produce Jess Franco's Tender Flesh which is a totally sleazy version of The Most Deadly Game, complete with golden showers and close-ups on vagina's.
Well anyway, Gorgasm is Gallagher's first feature and its a pretty rough sit through. The plot is cool but the lack of budget and professionalism really put a hurtin on this one.
Gorgasm is about a desk cop who does a bit of detective work on his own and finds out that latest brash of murders are connected. The murders are being committed by an anonymous woman who runs an article in a smut zine for sexual deviates. She goes by the name of Gorgasm and she offers what she calls "The ultimate climax". The ultimate climax of course being death which she will act out the way her victim chooses. All she asks for in return is all of the money that particular person had in life, after all they wont need it anymore.
Gorgasm has its ups and downs but unfortunately the downs outweigh the ups in this one. Some of the highlights are a sleazy clerk behind the counter of a sleazy adult store who charges 50 cents for you to even enter his store. Then we have a paper editor who surrounds himself with smut. He has filthy posters all over his walls and his mouth is more filthy. Then we get some bare breasts, some transsexual penis on display, a kid wearing a Ted Bundy shirt is decapitated, we get some cool stock footage from a S&M stag film and a cool hand dismemberment scene. The quote of the movie "This place is sleazy. You're nothing but a bunch of perverts".
Then we have the downs. First off its shot on video. The acting is as bad as it can get. Aside from Gorgasm the female cast is pretty damn ugly. One woman looks like she is having a stroke as she butchers her lines. Her mouth and teeth are deformed and if Hugh Gallagher was using family members in this movie its was just cruel of him to force the world to look at this woman. Then we have a saggy titted blond in a black leather outfit and she either has some pretty nasty razor burn going on or a mean case of the herpes. Either way it isn't exactly pleasant to watch her roll around with a weed-whacker, wielding psycho slut. Then we have some shitty subplot with a dummy hanging in a garage (Don't even ask). We are forced to listen to awful 80's hair metal and the main character is smoking cigarettes constantly but as a smoker its annoying to watch this oh so obvious non smoker twirl his cigs around as if it was necessary to the plot. There is moments when the guy holds a cigarette with two hands (it really is horrible). The same guy spins his gun around his finger as if he is the Lone Ranger or something.
Save yourself some time and money, skip Gorgasm and check out George C. Scott's Hardcore. Its a much better film and I feel that is the route Gorgasm was trying to go.

Curse Of The Living Corpse (1964)

How many times are they going to make this movie. This is one of the most recycled plots in film history. It has been used countless times in forgettable movies. Its the old tale of a wealthy relative who has passed on and leaves the fortune and castle/mansion to family members providing they stay in the old castle foe X amount of time and follow the wishes on the will.
This time the castle and wealth is being left in the will of a crazy old man whom is presumed dead. In the will the old man demands that his children stay in the castle and follow certain orders.

If they fail to meet the demands they will be killed in a way that each individual fears the most. One is afraid of fire. Another afraid of drowning and the crazy old mans fear was being buried alive. Well sure enough the deceased coffin turns out to be empty and the family members start dying. Is the old man back from the grave or was he buried alive? You will have to see for yourself. I suppose out of all the movies that used this tired old plot, this is one of the best.
 Still that isn't saying much but at least this one has a bit of gore.

It was directed by Del Tenney who is most remembered for The Horror Of Party Beach which would play on a double bill with The Curse Of The Living Corpse. I'm sure 99% if not all of the late night movie goers who went to see this creature double feature found the beach party monster flick to be the more entertaining of the two. Still The Curse Of The Living Corpse is not a bad movie it just is a bad choice for a double bill. The Horror Of Party Beach was a total fast paced camp flick where this one moves rather slow with an occasional bit of nastiness.  Some of the highlights consist of a death by quicksand, we have lots of cane beatings, a man is dragged by a horse and has his face ripped up, a woman is drowned but the real money shot is a decapitated head served on a platter for breakfast. This thing was rightfully placed on a double feature dvd with the far Superior Horror Of Part Beach. The dvd is worth owning, there for Curse Of The Living Corpse is worth a watch. The dvd has beautiful cleaned up prints of both movies and neither one ever looked so good.

The Horror Of Party Beach (1964)

Ever wonder what it would be like if they crossed the beach party movies with a monster movie. Well the answer is The Horror Of Party Beach. Its one of the most fun monster movies of all time. We have pretty girls dancing on the beach in their 60's bikinis and silly looking beach boys in little shorts doing some ridiculously embarrassing dance numbers. Even the violent rebel biker gang will get down for a dance before smashing up a beach party.

Its no wonder that these cats spend so much time dancing. They have their very own beach band, The Del-Aires and they totally rock with awesome surf jams like The Zombie Stomp and Summer Love. The Del-Aires are completely ridiculous (in a good way), you gotta see them in all their lip-singing glory.
Unfortunately for the beach bums and Del-Aires fans it can't be a picnic all the time. The beach goers are terrorized my a monster created from toxic waste that was dumped into the ocean by some very enviorment unfriendly sailors. When one of the waste containers spills a leak and the toxins leaks on to a human skull, the marine life on the floor molds with the skull and forms one hell of a silly looking monster.

It has giant round eyes, a fin on its head and its mouth looks like its filled with hot dogs. The monster also walks like a old hunchback and its near impossible not to laugh. You gotta love these early horror flicks that didn't take themselves seriously and still manage to be way more entertaining then anything people are putting out today.

On the other hand aside from being fun The Horror Of Party Beach has its share of gore. Of course its no where near as gory as the Herschel Gordon Lewis pictures but it does have its share of red stuff. Apparently the police were even sent to investigate on the set when someone reported a bloody mess on a rolled up carpet.
The monsters do have a pretty big body count. I'd say its somewhere up in the 30's. We get one big Slumber Party Massacre (not to be confused with the 80's slasher), where "over twenty teenage girls were brutally attacked and murdered". We also have local drunks being mangled and even mannequins are not safe.

In the movie the characters keep referring to the monsters as zombies which just adds to the weird, fun that is The Horror Of Party Beach. The monsters are not zombies and it doesn't take a bullet to the brain to stop these things. Nope, they have to be stopped with sodium. We learn this when a careless voodoo practicing, house maid accidentally spill sodium on the severed arm of one of the creatures. With this knowledge a scientist, the police and regular towns geeks band together armed with sodium to stop the blood-thirsty, hot dog mouthed killers.
The Horror Of Party Beach is a must see for anyone who likes the earlier 50's monster movies. Its pure fun, in the same vain as Faster Pussycat Kill Kill. Check it out for a fast paced bikini beach, monster bash.

Fräulein Devil (1977)

Fräulein Devil is another Nazisploitation brothel on a train flick. Where sometimes sexy and sometimes not so sexy Nazi women are to offer up services to German officers. This train is run by a sadistic prostitute named Elsa, not to be mistaken for Ilsa (Dian Thorn). Elsa shows her loyalty to the Fuher by spying on Nazi officers and the trains prostitutes. More often then not she finds what she refers to as traitors. Even Nazis slip up from time to time and say the wrong thing durring intamate moments and unfortionatly for them Elsa's way of dealing with traitors is a bit harsh and usually results in death, exicution style with a bullet to the back of the head. She also whips and tortures suspected traitors for information. Some of the highlights is a strange prostitute musical scene with lots of pubic hair in frame, a pair of burnt tits, a suicide and a really weird scene where Elsa pretty much rapes a young virgin German soldier and then kills him. There is also some trashy conversation about a man who needs a horse to maintain his erection. I was just upset that there wasn't a horse in the movie. In fact Fräulein Devil is pretty tame in general. Its no where near as disturbing as Ilsa She Wolf Of The SS or as trashy as Bruno Mettei's Womans Camp 119. It lacks the art from Tinto Brass Salon Kitty and generally rips off Hell Train (another Nazi whore-house on wheels flick). Worth owning for collectors and fans of the genre but no where near the top of the list. Fräulein Devil also goes under the following titles, Elsa Fräulein SS, Captive Women 4, and Fraulein Kitty.

Terror On Tape (1983)

What we have here is a 90 minute or so compilation of gore scenes from movies released on Continental Video. It stars Cameron Mitchell (Blood And Black Lace, Haunts, Night Train To Terror) as a video store clerk who plays the most ghastly scenes from his video collection. The only downfall of the tape is that there really just isn't enough titles on here. We see clips from the same movies over and over again but it still manages to be entertaining compilation.
This thing is long out of print and Continental Video is gone as well, so I doubt this thing will ever be re-released. Still its worth owning if you can find a copy anywhere.
It shows scenes from some of the greats like H.G. Lewis, Blood Feast, Two Thousand Maniacs and Color Me Blood Red. We get clips from the ridiculously gory Umberto Lenzi zombie-camp-fest, Nightmare City. We also get a little bit of tit with Vampire Hookers.
Terror On Tape shows scenes from a few more obscure slashers like Nightmare which is actually a awesome movie with tons of gore.
It also shows clips from a few that I have not yet seen like Slayer which looks really cool and brutal. Another one that I have not seen is Scalps. Scalps looks pretty crappy to me and its not really anywhere near the top of my list of things to see. I think I will stick with Maniac for the time being when I want my scalping's.
We also get scenes from ridiculous monster movies like Return Of The Aliens Deadly Spawn.
Then we get into the cursed and demonic section with movies like Cathy's Curse and The Eerie Midnight Horror Show. This section  also sports one that I have never seen. Its called To The Devil A Daughter and it looks pretty good.
Terror On Tape all in all is a pretty fun sit through and anyone who likes horror compilations should dig this one. Its another good party tape to add to your collection.

Elves (1989)

I really had high hopes for this movie after seeing the trailer but it turns out to be a pretty bad 80's monster movie with a lot of wasted potential.
Three girls gather in the woods and do some witchy voodoo type shit and before you can say bah humbug we have a demonic Elf running around and killing people with sharp kitchen knives. Eventually we find out that the Elves were genetically engineered by the Nazis and our main characters grandfather (who turns out to actually be her father) had something to do with the Nazi Elves experiment. I know the plot alone sounds awesome but the film makers really screwed this one up.
The main problem is that the movie just isn't violent enough. When the Elf is actually killing people the movie is pretty cool but it takes ages between each murder. The best scene in the movie involves a cocaine abusing Santa who has his balls slashed up by a knife wielding Elf. Then we got this awesome foul mouthed little kid who spies on his sister while she is taking a shower and when he gets caught he says things like "I'm not a pervert, I fucking like to look at naked girls and you have huge fucking tits and I'm gonna tell everyone" This kid is by far my favorite character in the movie and I wish he had more screen time. Then we have a psychotic mother (Deanna Lund) who drowns cats for fun and is just a general loony bitch. The funny thing is the mother is the only good looking girl in the whole movie (and she does have a nude scene.

The three teenage girls are ugly as sin and I think the Elf might even be slightly more attractive. In the opening we see just a slight bit of nip from our main character but thankfully we don't get any more flesh scenes from these dumb 80's bimbos. However they do walk around in lingerie and bright 80's spandex.
Elves was shot on 16mm but it looks more like video. It must have been a pretty low quality film and this thing went straight to video. As I already mentioned, this movie was so close to being good but just didn't quite do it for me. Normally a movie that involves incest, crazy Nazi mutant Elves and a bit of gore would be praised by me but not this time. This year for Christmas Ill just stick to the classics. Black Christmas (1974) & Silent Night Deadly Night. Bah Humbug!