The Honeymoon Killers: A chilly account of the serial killers Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck, who posing as siblings would con single women out of their money before dumping them or murdering them. This 1970 rendering may not be entirely accurate, but gets the tone right, assuming a semi-documentary look - with some fine use of black and white photography - and a couple of decent performances from the leads.
The Funhouse: Cliched trash from director Tobe Hooper (of Texas Chainsaw Massacre fame) about a group of teenagers who decide to stay overnight at a carnival funhouse only to witness a murder, and they in turn are hunted. From 1981, so perhaps its an earlier example of the slasher sub-genre of horror movie, but it's still pretty bad.
Brain Damage: Uneven horror-comedy by the mind that brought you Basket Case and Frankenhooker. A brain-eating, euphoria-inducing parasite latches itself onto an unsuspecting New Yorker, and has his life turned upside down because of it. Despite having a couple of nicely gruesome moments - fellatio as murder - the movie succeeds more as a comedy than a horror, with the Kelsey Grammer-like parasite laughing and crooning his way through his victims. Fun, but not really scary.
Thursday, 24 July 2008
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