Woefully Misleading VHS Cover Art
A selection of ludicrous and entirely unsuitable VHS artwork for films that would either disappoint or horrify anyone attracted by these covers.
Tag: horror
Man Vs Machine: The Relentless Intensity Of Duel
Steven Spielberg’s debut feature, and the Richard Matheson short story that it is based on, remain masterclasses in paranoid terror.
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Opening The Eyes Below
The new film from the maker of The Woman with Leopard Shoes looks to be an intense, paranoid horror thriller.
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Blessed Virgin Be: Paul Verhoeven’s Benedetta
Paul Verhoeven looks set for a return to upsetting the critical dullards with an erotic and provocative nunsploitation movie.
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The Flowers Of Passion: A Journey Into The Japanese Idol Underground
The mysterious, unexplored world of the strange and wonderful chika idol scene.
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The Strange And Elusive Pleasures Of HVC
Looking back at Britain’s most outrageous and chaotically inept television channel, the home of sex and violence, banned movies and disrupted broadcasts.
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It Takes All Kinds Of Critters To Make Farmer Vincent Fritters – Checking Into Motel Hell
One of the cult classics of the early 1980s fails to live up to the promise of its own imagery and outlandishly tasteless premise.
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A Movie With Your Morning Paper
Remembering the time when tomorrow’s fish and chip wrappers contained yesterday’s films.
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Remembering Norman J. Warren
Looking back at the much-loved British horror film director and his remarkable body of work.
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The Outer Fringes Of Horror Cinema: Oddball Anthology Night Train To Terror Dissected
An eccentric slice of cinematic cannibalism, as obscure and unfinished films are chopped, changed and rendered incoherent in a portmanteau of pointlessness.
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The Purple Cloud – A Classic Of Existential Nihilism Explored
M.P.Shiel’s delirious study of apocalypse, madness and insanity revisited.
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Host Story: The Hype And The Horror
The scariest film of the last decade, apparently – but does Host live up to the claims that it is the horror film we all need for the Covid Age?
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