Emanuele Taglietti (born in Ferrara, January 6, 1943) is an Italian designer, illustrator and painter.

Born to an artistic father, Emanuele Taglietti graduated from his local art institute, then moved to Rome where he studied set design at the Experimental Center of Cinematography. He worked on the art direction and set decoration for various films, including Federico Fellini’s Juliet of the Spirits. 

In 1973, he returned to live in his home town and came into contact with Renzo Barbieri of Edifumetto, for whom he worked as a cover artist of erotic, crime, fantasy and horror-themed fumetti (Italian comic books). Having been inspired by artists such as Frank Frazetta and Averardo Ciriello, he created artwork for fumetti such as Zora the vampire, Belzeba, Cimiteria, Sukia, Stregoneria (“Witchcraft”), Gli Spettri (“The Spectres”), Il Sanguinari (“The Blood”), Lo Schelectro (“The Skeleton”), Ulula (“Howls”), Vampirissimo and Wallestein.

Occasionally, Taglietti reworked images and artwork from horror films such as Creature from the Black Lagoon, Night of the Demon (1957) and The Plague of the Zombies, and seems to have had a fixation on actress Ornella Muti (whom he based the image of Sukia on). Featuring the signature nudity of fumetti, his work was sometimes censored when the comic books were publish in other countries, like Spain.

During this busy period, which continued until 1988, Taglietti also restored old paintings and occasionally collaborated as an illustrator for magazine publishers such as Mondadori and Rizzoli. He retired in 2000, broadened the scope of his artistic interests, devoting himself to mural decoration and furniture.

We are very grateful to the Emanuele Taglietti Fan Club blog for the images above.Visit their blog to see lots more of Taglietti’s artwork…

Night of the Living Carrots is a 2011 Halloween short animated film, based on Monsters vs. Aliens and produced by DreamWorks Animation. Following the 2009 short, Monsters vs. Aliens: Mutant Pumpkins from Outer Space, a mutated carrot has spawned hundreds of zombie carrots taking control of the subject’s mind. Dr. Cockroach determines that the only way to defeat them and free their victims is for B.O.B. to eat all of the carrots.

The short premiered in two parts exclusively on Nintendo 3DS. It was released to a general audience on August 28, 2012, as a part of Shrek’s Thrilling Tales DVD and DreamWorks Spooky Stories Blu-ray.

Plot:

In a theater, B.O.B. introduces the story in a manner similar to many horror films. He recalls the events of Mutant Pumpkins from Outer Space, saying “it all started with a spooky spaceship, mutant pumpkins and monsters saving the day. But that was only the beginning.”

The scene then shifts to the twist ending of the previous special. The Zombie Carrot emerges and charges at the camera but is stopped short by a gate. Carl Murphy announces to the children of the Modesto suburbs that a costume contest was about to start and that the winner got their weight in candy. B.O.B., dressed as a pirate, takes interest and comes inside but takes all the candy meant for the contest. Outside, he hears a strange voice and is initially frightened by the zombie carrot, but he mistakes it for a child in a costume. Believing the carrot would win the costume contest, he throws it inside where it immediately bites Carl, turning him into a zombie.

All the guests flee the Murphy house and not long after, the carrot is blasted by Dr. Cockroach’s scanner. Doc theorizes that the carrot was contaminated by the mutant pumpkins and that the curse could only be lifted by eliminating the infected carrot. However, the remains of the carrot replicate themselves into more zombie carrots. Before long, all three monsters are completely surrounded…

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Zombies: The Beginning is a 2007 Italian horror film – original title: Zombi: La creazione – directed by Bruno Mattei (Hell of the Living Dead, The Other Hell) as Vincent Dawn from a screenplay by Antonio Tentori and producer Giovanni Paolucci. It stars Yvette Yzon, Alvin Anson, Paul Holme, James Gregory Paolleli, B.B. Johnson, Dyane Craystan, Gerhard Acao, Mike Vergel, Miguel Faustmann and Gene Zwahir.

Plot:

Sharon, the only survivor of the explosion of the salvage ship Dark Star, is having a hard time with the insurance company in furnishing them with a satisfactory explanation about her accident. She tells the story of her horrible experience, but is considered crazy – no one believes her when she tells about the existence of living dead on an island that can’t be found on any nautical map…

Reviews:

Bruno Mattei’s partner piece to his 2007 film Island of the Living Dead is another no-budget, no talent production shot in the Philippines for pocket change. Mattei made crappy zombie films even in the heyday of the Italian horror boom of the early 80s, so it shouldn’t really be any surprise that his more recent efforts, when Italian genre cinema has gone down the toilet, are irredeemably horrible. The story follows on directly from Island of the Living Dead: sole survivor Dr. Sharon Dimao (non actress Yvette Yzon) is packed off back to the zombie island with a bunch of half-wit soldiers and dubious scientists. When there, she discovers that as well as zombies, there are also weird zombie children with ping pong eyeballs who could or could not be part of the next master-race, as well as a disembodied brain connected to lots of air conditioning pipes which seems to be in control of everything. This looks unremittingly ugly, features uniformly terrible performances and is undeniably dumb. But in its attempts to be a two-bit zombie version of Aliens it’s actually rather fun, in a so-bad-its-good kind of way. But don’t take that as a recommendation!

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“it really isn’t all that bad. It’s dumb, and it’s derivative; but by comparison even to Island of the Living Dead, there are very few moments where you find yourself howling at the television in outrage. In fact, once you get past the fact that the whole thing’s an obvious plagiarism, you can even begin to enjoy the places where the movie decides to stray from its sources. One decided improvement over Shocking Dark is that the Newt character has been written out. Probably the best twist the movie adds is the entire last portion of the film, when the frame of reference changes from Aliens to… well, I’m not sure, exactly; but superficially, I was reminded of Luigi Cozzi’sContamination, with a faint echo of one particular sequence from Silent Hill.” Braineater.com

“I have, today, watched both a Timo Rose movie and the worst, arguably, science fiction movie of the eighties. But neither could possibly hold a candle to the transcendent, outrageous, offensive badness that is Zombies: The Beginning. The late Bruno Mattei truly outdid himself this time. The crapmaster’s final offering to the world of Z-grade cinema is also his worst film. And that’s saying something remarkable.” Robert Beveridge, Popcorn for Breakfast

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This is a historical listing of all films considered to be ‘video nasties’ in the UK.

When horror films began to be seized by police under the 1959 Obscene Publications Act, it was something new – previously, only sexual material was thought to be ‘obscene’ (“taken as a whole, the work has a tendency to ‘deprave and corrupt’ ‘ – that is, make morally bad – a significant proportion of those likely to see it.”). In order to ‘help’ the video trade – which of course had no idea which horror films would suddenly be considered ‘obscene’ – the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) drew up lists of titles that had either been successfully prosecuted or had prosecutions pending, starting on June 30th 1983 and ending o December 1st 1985. This list would change according to convictions or acquittals, and peaked at 62 titles. The final list that existed by the time the Video Recordings Act 1984 came into force featured 39 films, and this final list is the one used by most cult movie collectors as ‘definitive’.

Naturally, most shops began clearing their shelves of the films on the list – even those that were never successfully prosecuted – and so all these movies are amongst the most collectable VHS releases.

The final 39 official ‘video nasties’:

Absurd (uncut)

Anthropophagous The Beast

Axe (aka California Axe Massacre)

The Beast in Heat

Blood Bath (1972)

Blood Feast

Blood Rites (aka The Ghastly Ones)

Bloody Moon

The Burning (uncut)

Cannibal Apocalypse

Cannibal Ferox (uncut)

Cannibal Holocaust

Cannibal Man

Devil Hunter

Don’t Go in the Woods

Driller Killer

Evilspeak (uncut)

Expose

Faces of Death

Fight for your Life

Forest of Fear (aka Bloodeaters)

Flesh for Frankenstein

The Gestapo’s Last Orgy

House by the Cemetery

House on the Edge of the Park

I Spit on Your Grave

Island of Death

Last House on the Left

Love Camp 7

Madhouse

Mardi Gras Massacre

Nightmares in a Damaged Brain

Night of the Bloody Apes

Night of the Demon

Snuff

SS Experiment Camp

Tenebrae

The Werewolf and the Yeti

Zombie Flesh Eaters

The remaining films that were removed from the ‘nasties’ list over the 18 month period were (dates removed from the list included where known):

The Beyond (removed April 1985)

The Bogey Man

Cannibal Terror (removed September 1985)

Contamination

Dead and Buried (removed June 1985)

Death Trap (removed December 1985)

Deep River Savages (removed September 1985)

Delirium (removed May 1985)

Don’t Go Near the Park

Don’t Look in the Basement (removed December 1985)

The Evil Dead (removed September 1985)

Frozen Scream (removed October 1984)

Funhouse

I Miss You Hugs and Kisses (removed October 1984)

Inferno (removed September 1985)

Killer Nun

The Living Dead (aka The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue – removed April 1985)

Nightmare Maker (removed December 1985)

Possession (removed October 1984)

Pranks (removed September 1985)

Prisoner of the Cannibal God (removed May 1985)

Revenge of the Bogey Man

The Slayer (removed April 1985)

Terror Eyes (removed June 1985)

Toolbox Murders (removed May 1985)

Unhinged (removed December 1985)

Visiting Hours (removed November 1984)

The Witch Who Came from the Sea (removed June 1985)

Women Behind Bars (removed October 1984)

Zombie Creeping Flesh

It’s impossible to list all the films seized by individual police forces, of course – Manchester, under the grip of fanatical Christian police chief James Anderton (later immortalised in Manc music as “God’s Cop” by the Happy Mondays), operated a list in excess of the DPPs (including a blanket ban on the softcore Electric Blue series, Werewolf Woman, Dawn of the Mummy, Massacre Mansion, Night of the Seagulls, Mother’s Day, Rosemary’s Killer and Superstition), while other films confiscated by police forces included Maniac, The Hills Have Eyes, Xtro, The Thing, Friday the 13th, Madman, Basket Case, Emmanuelle 2, Children of the Corn (which had been further cut by distributors EMI after gaining BBFC certification), Suffer Little Children (seized by police before it was even released and while negotiations over cuts were taking place with the BBFC) as well as numerous softcore and hardcore adult movies.

Most notoriously – and evidence of the incredible ignorance of the repressive police carrying out these pointless raids – were the seizures of Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now (allegedly mistaken for Cannibal Apocalypse!), Lee Marvin war film The Big Red One, Burt Reynolds comedy The Last Little Whorehouse in Texas, Disney movie The Devil and Max Devlin (after a mischief-making complaint from anti-censorship journalist Liam T. Sanford) and An Unmarried Woman!

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Night of Something Strange is 2014 American infection-themed horror film written and directed by Jonathan Straiton from a story by himself and executive producer Ron Bonk (Gut Pile, Satan’s Cannibal Holocaust, Sexquatch: The Legend of Blood Stool Creek). It stars Brinke Stevens (Nightmare Sisters, Cheerleader Massacre, Carmilla: The Lesbian Vampire), Nicola Fiore, Kera O’Bryon, Janet Mayson, Kirk LaSalle, Wayne W. Johnson, Michael Merchant, Toni Ann Gambale, Billy Garberina, Brett Janeski, Wes Reid, Rebecca C. Kasek, Trey Harrison, Tarrance Taylor, Alexis Katherine.

Plot:

Teenage friends out for beach week get unexpectedly detoured to a creepy motel where a deadly sexually-transmitted virus now runs rampant, turning those infected into the living dead…

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13/13/13 is a 2013 American horror film written and directed by James Cullen Bressack for The Asylum productions. It stars Trae Ireland, Erin Coker, Jody Barton, J. Scott, Bill Voorhees, Tiffany Martinez, Jared Cohn, Calico Cooper.

For millennia, calendars have added an extra day every four years. In doing so, they violated the ancient Mayan calendar. Now we are in the 13th month of the 13th year of the new millennium, and the few who survive will battle a world of demons.

Reviews:

” …  a bloody intense film that has shades of a family drama as well as apocalyptic overtones. This is a sharp, gory horror film with star making performances by Barton, Ireland, and Coker and an eye popping  cameo by Jessica Cameron. Worth a watch for all involved.” Christopher M. Jimenez, Sinful Celluloid

“13/13/13 stretches itself out by having the leads kill more time than they do infected humans. The rest of the space is filled with more moments of maniacal laughing than an army of funhouse fat ladies at a supervillain convention. Between that and the absurd overacting, one wonders if the film might be trying to drive the viewer as batty as the cast. Anyone left with any sanity by the film’s end will learn that the movie is a schizophrenic zombie itself.” Culture Crypt

” … those looking for on-screen deaths should look no further because this film has a metric ton. The special effects are hit and miss but it does not take away from this bloody flick. Overall, Bressack delivers another film that feels like a punch to throat and does not let up.  I highly recommend this one!” Blacktooth, Horror Society

“ … a take on The Crazies with supernatural twists. Unfortunately, it’s The Asylum’s take on that film, which means a tiny budget, brief shooting schedule and lack of quality talent, which results in the failure to deliver a compelling story. When the dialogue isn’t groan-inducing, the neverending score is just as grating to listen to. The filmmakers spend too much time showing people sitting around and laughing at each other because, well, they’ve gone bonkers.” J.D. Smith, Fangoria

“13/13/13 is typical The Asylum style film making. It’s silly. It knows it’s silly. And if you got it, flaunt it. All in all this movie will appeal to many of the same people who liked the movies mentioned previously. You’ll find plenty of cheesy dialogue, terrible acting, buckets of blood, and moments that will have you laughing out loud. Just one memorable line: “we’re all a little bit Asian”. GraveDave, Life After Undeath

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Zombie Night is a 2013 American zombie film produced by The Asylum and directed by John Gulager (Feast, Piranha 3DD), written by Keith Allan and Delondra Williams from a story by Richard Schenkman, and starring Anthony Michael Hall, Daryl Hannah, Jennifer Bini Taylor, Alan Ruck, and Shirley Jones. The film’s distinctive score is by Alan Howarth (Halloween II). 

Plot:

Zombies come out at night and two families must survive until morning…

Reviews:

“The ridiculous script would make a night in with friends a blast, and some great gore effects elevate this beyond pure B schlock. It’s not going to make the top of a favourite list, but this is a bloody head and shoulders above most of the zombie films out there.” The Film Reel

“What makes this movie all the worse is the potential behind it: directed by John Gulager, who certainly knows his stuff from the FEAST movies (and occasionally blinks and misses it with PIRANHA 3DD), it wields a decent cast of veteran actors, including ex-Breakfast Clubber Anthony Michael Hall, ex-mermaid Daryl Hannah, ex-Starfleet Captain Alan Ruck, and ex-Partridge Family mother Shirley Jones, and the make-up is practical rather than all CGI. And the plot is as basic as rice and peas: the undead rise one night, people die, society collapses, survivors bicker, die and/or survive. How the hell do you screw that up?” Anything Horror

“The cast is an 80s dream with Anthony Michael Hall, Darryl Hannah, Alan Ruck, and Shirley Jones- Wait a minute! Shirley Jones, what are you doing here? Oh, you’re trying to break the world’s record for overacting? Good luck! Some of the zombie makeup is pretty good and some is really bad. Speaking of inconsistent, the movie sets up some strange rules for the zombies. Does a zombie bite make you turn into a zombie or not? Why does the sun coming up mean that the zombie apocalypse will be over?” Doomed Moviethon

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Zombie Desert (aka The Desert, original title: El Desierto) is a 2013 Argentinian science fiction horror film directed by Christoph Behl. It stars Lautaro Delgado, Victoria Almeida, William Prociuk, Lucas Lagré.

Plot teaser:

Axel, Jonathan and Ana live together in a bunker-like home with views over the post-apocalyptic landscape. They once lived in a love triangle idyll, with strong bonds of friendship, but the arrival of the zombies changed that. Ana is with Jonathan and Axel is alone, slowly tattooing his body with images of flies, while developing an almost voyeuristic obsession with the couple’s relationship. However, everything changes when Axel and Jonathan go out on an expedition in search of provisions and return to the house with a zombie that they call Pythagoras, who they keep chained and muzzled inside the house. As the dynamic of the trios relationship changes it becomes clear that their new prisoner may not be the biggest threat to their survival…

Reviews:

“Anyone who wants to make a zombie movie should watch The Desert as it’s a film that gets what the genre has always been about – the characters rather than the action. This may be one of the greatest zombie movies of all-time and it features little to no undead set pieces. Everything is told visually and the cinematography is first class. The Desert is beautiful, touching, moving, gripping and simply outstanding.” Luke Oweb, The Flickering Myth

“For horror fans who prefer the slow descent into madness as opposed to the gore of the undead, then check out The Desert. If that’s not really what you’re into, then who’s the REAL monster, huh?! It’s you. It’s probably you.” The Wolfman Cometh

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Zombie Fight Club is a 2014 Taiwanese horror film directed by Joe Chen. It stars Andy On, Michael Wong, Terence Yin, Philip Ng, Kwok Cheung Tsang, Jessica Cambensy, Jack Kao, Abby Fung, Chang Han.

Official synopsis:

It’s the end of the century at a corner of the city in a building riddled with crime… Everyone in the building has turned into zombies. After Jenny’s boyfriend is killed in a zombie attack, she faces the challenge of surviving in the face of adversity. In order to stay alive, she struggles with Andy to flee danger. After the chaos has broken out, the originally kind and warmhearted chemistry teacher is now the zombie leader and has transformed into a cruel, vicious, and selfish character.

Violent activists match prisoners against zombies in a malicious killing game; the good side of humanity has seemingly all but vanished. Now that all order is lost, how will humans create a new century? A world of uncertainty awaits: The end? Hope? Or Death?

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Witches’ Tales - not to be confused with the 1950s comics of the same name – was a black-and-white horror-anthology comics magazines published by Eerie Publications, a New York-based company run by comic-book artist and 1970s magazine entrepreneur Myron Fass, between July 1969 and February 1975. New material was mixed with reprints from 1950s pre-Comics Code horror comics. Writer and artist credits seldom appeared, but included Marvel Comics penciler/inkers Dick Ayers and Chic Stone, as well as Fass himself, with brother Irving Fass and Ezra Jackson serving as art directors.

As with other Eerie Publications, such as Weird, Horror Tales, Terror Tales, Tales from the Tomb and Tales of Voodoo, Witches’ Tales featured grisly, lurid colour covers.

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What We Do in the Shadows is a 2014 New Zealand horror comedy film about a group of vampires who live together in Wellington, New Zealand. It was directed and written by Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement, who also star in the film. The remainder of the cast are: Jonathan Brugh, Cori Gonzalez-Macuer, Stu Rutherford, Jackie Van Beek, Ben Fransham.

What We Do in the Shadows is based on a 2006 short film of the same name by Waititi and Clement. It premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2014.

Official synopsis:

Follow the lives of Viago (Taika Waititi), Deacon (Jonathan Brugh), and Vladislav (Jemaine Clement) – three flatmates who are just trying to get by and overcome life’s obstacles-like being immortal vampires who must feast on human blood. Hundreds of years old, the vampires are finding that beyond sunlight catastrophes, hitting the main artery, and not being able to get a sense of their wardrobe without a reflection-modern society has them struggling with the mundane like paying rent, keeping up with the chore wheel, trying to get into nightclubs, and overcoming flatmate conflicts…

Reviews:

“takes pleasure in poking fun at various aspects of vampire lore, but not surprisingly (given the filmmakers), What We Do in the Shadows is more deadpan, clever, and silly than it is simple, “schticky,” or mean-spirited. And while Shadows is most assuredly a full-fledged comedy in horror clothing, fans of the darker genre will certainly enjoy how colorfully gory the movie gets during some of the best visual gags.” Scott Weinberg, FEARnet

“Some genre fans who prefer the silly to the satiric may bite, but the anemic pic isn’t remotely weird or witty enough for cult immortality. Feeling eternal at 87 minutes, the film introduces a rival gang of G-rated werewolves (“We’re werewolves, not swearwolves!”) and drags its way to the Unholy Masquerade Ball, populated by hard-partying vampires as well as zombies — the movie’s final act of desperation.” Rob Nelson, Variety

“It’s also as silly as it is smart, unloading plenty of easy gross-out gags involving gushing blood and projectile vomiting plus some token childish moments — a character audibly masturbating from inside his coffin, for example — and some the movie gets away with by having its characters act immaturely in spite of their ages ranging in the hundreds to thousands of years … There’s always a smart bit within seconds of something stupid.” Christopher Campbell, Film School Rejects

“If there is any justice, What We Do in the Shadows, will break out into the light of day as a crossover hit. This film is absolutely hysterical, came as a complete surprise to me, and even breathes life back into the withering corpse of the doc-comedy style of The Office.” Ed Travis, Cinapse

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Return of the Living Dead: Rave to the Grave - originally known as Return of the Living Dead 5: Rave to the Grave - is a 2005 zombie horror film directed by Ellory Elkayem (They Nest; Eight-Legged Freaks), starring Cory Hardrict, John Keefe, Jenny Mollen, and Peter Coyote (Jagged Edge; Heart of Midnight). The film was released belatedly on March 20, 2007 by Lionsgate.

Plot teaser:

A year after the events of Return of the Living Dead: Necropolis, Charles Garrison (Peter Coyote) arrives at a mortuary with one of the canisters of Trioxin that he salvaged. He is greeted by a team of Russian government officials whose goal is to destroy the last of the canisters to avoid another incident like that of what happened in Necropolis. Nevertheless, one of them sprays three corpses with the gas, and revives three corpses. Charles, is killed during the incident along with the mortuary owner and one of the government officials.

Meanwhile, Jenny (Jenny Mollen), Julian (John Keefe), Cody (Cory Hardrict) and Becky (Aimee-Lynn Chadwick) receive notice of the “murder” of Charles. Julian and Jenny go to search for and possibly sell what belonged to Charles, and they find the last two barrels of Trioxin. One of them is taken to Cody, who tests the chemical inside it. Jeremy, Jenny’s brother, tastes the chemical when he thinks that it is a drug similar to Ecstasy, and he goes into a spasm, in which he foams at the mouth, and then describing what it was like. The chemical is named “Z” for its “zombie-like” effect on the living…

Reviews:

“The movie’s only good idea is that the Trioxin has found its way into some designer drugs, so all the idiots that are at the rave are popping the pills and turning, and no one else thinks much of it because they’re also high or just “feeling the music … They also bring back the Tarman, who earns one of the movie’s few laughs (and is given a nice modern makeup look by John Vulich) but it reeks of desperation, serving only to remind us exactly how far the series has fallen.” Horror Movie a Day

“More brains!” says the zombie to the cheerleaders

“Peter Coyote’s constant oddball grin had me in stitches; so that’s one third of a point right there. And I’ll give the movie this, it sported at least 8 tit shots…yup you heard me…8 tit shots! That in itself has yet to be equaled in the ROTLD franchise or my bedroom for that matter! That’s 2/3 of a point. Lastly the gore at hand was plenty, graphic and fairly well done (I saw the uncut version)…so there’s your one star rating  right there.” Arrow in the Head, Joblo

“Now when you take Rave to the Grave as a single B movie style horror/ horror comedy it instantly does not seem as bad. If they had filmed it this way making up a new name for the chemical involved and removing the cameo from the zombie Tarman then I honestly believe there would not have been such a hostile backlash against it. The main idea of the film, a guy getting a barrel full of a military chemical, his scientist friend testing it to find that it contains similar ingredients to a known narcotic and then turning it in to a drug which unknown to him will eventually turn people in to zombies is wonderful. Without the weight of expectation on its back and a few wrinkles ironed out I am sure this could have become a nice little cult classic.” Kerr9000

“Necropolis at least tried to pay homage to the original films. It has a few bits of humor tossed in and the body count was amped way up. This time, the zombies have a smorgasbord of doped up teens to dine on but the gore is weak and uninspired. The only thing that Elkayem and his crew added more of was boobs. In fact, the nudity on display in Rave to the Grave is gratuitous almost to the point of distraction, and that’s saying a lot.” Bloody Disgusting

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” … the make-up effects are once again solid. Drumsticks are plunged through a zombie’s eyes, a cheerleader has the flesh torn off her bulbous bottom, and there’s an impressively ghastly, sludge-dripping zombie … however, the young (and in some cases old), inexperienced cast and cobbled-together script just aren’t up to elevating the story above the mundane, and the zombie-filled rave scene is a big anticlimax.” Glenn Kay, Zombie Movies: The Ultimate Guide (Chicago Review Press)

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Linnea Quigley‘s Horror Workout isn’t really a movie. It’s not even a workout video. I don’t know what it is, but I’m sure glad it exists. The 1990 video begins, as it should, with a lengthy shower scene. Quigley‘s boobs make their first appearance before the opening minute is out.

The titles appear as Quigley soaps herself up to a synth-soaked soundtrack composed by John Vulich. Vulich’s score is, rather jarringly, out of time. Stepping out of the shower, Quigley breaks the fourth wall, looks right down the barrel of the camera, and screams.

With the opening titles wrapped up, Quigley settles down in front of her fireplace and discusses her career. She shows several clips from such as Creepozoids (1987),Assault of the Party Nerds (1989) and other stinkers they could get the rights for.

After a lengthy sequence of clips, the fitness workout finally begins. Sporting fishnet stockings and a metal-studded bra (“Would you want to watch me work out in a baggy sweatsuit?” Quigley asks. “No,” says I), she launches into a series of aerobic exercises, all of which showcase some part of her scantily clad body. While stretching and twisting, the 80s Scream Queen delivers sexually charged instruction:

- “It keeps me limber, so I can get out of tight places… or into them.”
- “This one increases your ability to keep your legs in the air… I can do this one for hours!”
- “This one is great for the guys… I mean thighs!”
- “That’s right stretch those muscles… not that muscle!”
- “Deep breathing will increase lung capacity… as you can see I’m a real… deep… breather.”

The routine goes on for some time. Halfway through, Quigley is interrupted by a dirty phone call, which at first offends her but then seems to turn her on. The routine wraps up at the twenty minute mark, and we cut to Quigley jogging through a cemetery. She attracts the attention of a horde of zombies, which leads to a zombified version of “What’s the time, Mr Wolf?”

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The zombies follow Quigley into her house. Telling the living dead stalkers that they need to get into shape, Quigley does an aerobic dance routine with them by her pool. At some point during this ten minute sequence, something broke in my brain.

Quigley then decides she’s had enough of a workout and invites a bunch of her lingerie-sporting girlfriends over for a slumber party. Again, we’re treating to another lengthy clip parade as she and her pals watch scenes from her movies. To work off the popcorn, Quigley and Co. dive into another aerobics session that features a lot of obnoxious crotch shots.

The workout is interrupted by a power outage. Quigley investigates leaving her friends to the mercy of a Ronald Reagan-masked killer. Linnea Quigley‘s Horror Workout‘s final act is pretty fabulous. It even tosses a bit of cheap gore up on the screen.

It’s such a sadness that we live in a time where something like Linnea Quigley‘s Horror Workout could never exist. This is unashamedly gratuitous and campy silliness made with tongue firmly planted in cheek but without the eye-rolling irony of our current sneering times. And if nothing else, this makes one hell of a party tape. Thanks, Linnea Quigley, you are brilliant.

Dave Jackson, Horrorpedia guest reviewer from Mondo Exploito

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Midnight Mutants is a computer game for the Atari 7800 ProSystem, developed by Radioactive Software and published by Atari Corporation in 1990. It features a likeness of Al Lewis, dressed as Grandpa Munster, playing the role of “Grampa.” The game was one of the last releases for the Atari 7800. As with similar games of that era, Midnight Mutants features a large in-game environment with many locations, a background musical soundtrack, battles against boss enemies and an animated introduction. Despite its limited distribution, the game remains popular among Atari 7800 fans. Critical reaction has been fairly positive with praise being paid to the game’s graphics, gameplay and quirky sense of humour.

Game plot:

On Halloween night in 1992 young Jimmy Harkman’s grandfather (known as “Grampa”) has been imprisoned inside of a pumpkin by a resurrected villain named Dr. Evil, who is taking revenge for being burned at the stake as a witch by their ancestor Johnathon Harkman on Halloween night in 1747.

Jimmy then heads on a Halloween quest to free his grandfather. With Doctor Evil on the loose, Jimmy finds the countryside has become inhabited by scary creatures such as zombies and werewolves that can injure him physically and also make his blood impure. Fortunately, even though Grampa is trapped in pumpkin form, he is available to give Jimmy advice on occasion with the push of a button. Along the way, Jimmy can collect weapons and items that will help him in his quest to defeat evil creatures, giant bosses and ultimately Dr. Evil himself…

Review:

It’s a wonderful isometric adventure game that harks back to the days of the ZX Spectrum and Ultimate Play The Game. You are on a mission to rescue Grandpa himself who has been captured and trapped in a haunted mansion … The graphics throughout Midnight Mutants are fantastic and the cut scenes where Grandpa actually talks to you and gives you tips are particularly nice. The game is massive and the gameplay is very deep too, you will be wishing at times that it had a save option!” Retro Video Gamer

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“Kick It” is a 2004 collaboration between Peaches and Iggy Pop and is the third single from the album Fatherfucker.

The parody music video for “Kick It” was directed by Dawn Shadforth and Alex Smith. It shows Peaches and Iggy fighting against some zombies. The video begins with zombies walking on the streets while Peaches and Iggy are yelling the lyrics at each other. They hit the zombies throughout the video until they’ve beaten them all down.

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Dead Banging – original title Metaruka and also known as Metalca – is a 2013 Japanese comedy horror film written and directed by Eiji Uchida (Greatful Dead). It stars Ryusuke Komakine, Shôko Nakahara, Shûgo Oshinari, Kyoko Watanabe (real-life all-girl rock band, Gacharic Spin).

Plot teaser:

Nosebleed, a formerly unpopular rock band instantly gains a cult following after the lead vocalist, Kana, recruits a zombie, Tetsuo, as their death metal vocalist, even though he is the same undead monster that killed her former band members. Meanwhile, government agents frantically search for their runaway zombie experiment…

Reviews:

“There is some bloodshed here, but not too much. This is all about the comedy. And the music. Yes, I’ll admit it. One or two of the songs had me tapping my feet and smiling. The girls pretending to be rock stars may be a bit rubbish with the instruments (seriously, could they have not at least got someone who was ace at Guitar Hero?) but they make up for it with enthusiasm and energy.” Kevin Matthews, Flickfeast

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Zombie Creeping Flesh is a 1983 song by British Oi! punk rock band Peter and the Test Tube Babies. Named after the 1980 Italian film – and video nasty - Zombie Creeping Flesh (original title: Inferno dei morti-viventi and released internationally as Hell of the Living Dead), the song was released as a single by Trapper Records from Hove, Sussex. The record sleeve featured an image of actress Auretta Gay apparently being bitten by a Conquistador zombie from a different Italian film, Lucio Fulci’s Zombie Flesh Eaters.

Even though the film was directed by Bruno Mattei (Rats: Night of Terror; Cruel Jaws; Snuff Trap), the song’s lyrics reference director George A. Romero whose seminal movies Night of the Living Dead (1968) and Dawn of the Dead (1978) spawned the massive zombie sub-genre. Unlike many of the band’s songs, it was quite subdued and something of an epic, clocking in at over four minutes.

The dead have risen from the graves, movements slow, a vacant gaze
Living human flesh satisfies, no emotions showing in their eyes

Born to die but not to rest, stumblin’ Zombie Creeping Flesh.
Eat the living human prey, numbers rising every day

Takes one bite to be the same, the dead ain’t dead they live again

A thousand cities overwhelmed, survivors now thin on the ground
Amid the carnage and the screams, a camera shooting all the scenes

Zombies, actors and the eggs, strange things happening on the sets
Attacked the actors and film crew, soon Romero was one too

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Virus – l’inferno dei morti viventi is an Italian zombie film, made in 1980 by prolific hack Bruno Mattei, under his ‘Vincent Dawn’ pseudonym.

As with most of the Italian zombie films of the era, the film was less an imitation of George Romero’s Dawn of the Dead than of Lucio Fulci’s attempt to cash in on that movie. Zombi 2 / Zombie / Zombie Flesh Eaters proved to be a huge box office hit – outstripping Romero’s film in several territories, including the UK where it opened before the retitled Zombies – Dawn of the Dead – and inspired several rip-offs, of which Virus was one of the first.

The film is a mish-mash of ideas lifted from various popular sources – there is a SWAT team (as in Dawn of the Dead) who are sent for no good reason to Papua New Guinea – i.e. cannibal country – where they are joined by a plucky and sexy journalist (Margit Evelyn Newton) as they try to get past the hordes of flesh eating zombies that have suddenly and inexplicably appeared. Their destination is top secret research facility Hope Center #1, where a chemical accident has caused the dead to return to life and lust after the flesh of the living. This, it turns out, is the result of Operation Sweet Death, a cunning but somewhat flawed plan to end world hunger by turning Third World populations into cannibals.

Virus began  treatment by José María Cunillés later turned into a full screenplay by Claudio Fragasso and his wife Rossella Drudi. Dara Films in Spain and Beatrice Films in Rome collaborated to option the script, which was ridiculously ambitious in scope if not plot. Mattei was brought on board due to his experience with low budget exploitation, and attempted to bring the project under control. Exteriors were shot in Spain, but proved to be mostly unusable; rather than re-shoot or rewrite, Dara chose to simply dump the footage and carry on with the rest of the movie. Inevitably, this resulted in a somewhat incoherent plot.

Mattei suggested stock footage from Barbet Schroeder’s 1972 film La Vallée be used, with sets built to match this footage. How successful this matching proves to be is open to debate. Other stock footage – notably of the United Nations – was also included, with close -up shots of a ‘third world leader’ obviously inserted.

The movie has a Goblin score, which might seem impressive if it wasn’t for the fact that all the music was lifted from Dawn of the Dead and Contamination. This caused legal problems that delayed the film’s distribution.

The film was released – in a version that had cuts to both gore and narrative – into UK cinemas in 1981. Titled Zombie Creeping Flesh, it clearly aimed to cash in on the popularity of Zombie Flesh Eaters, but was not a success. Most people saw the film on video, where it was released in a shortened version and proved moderately popular. In the US, the film slipped out virtually unnoticed, playing as Night of the Zombies. Later DVD editions retitled the film as Hell of the Living Dead, a literal translation of the Italian title.

The combination of messy narrative, sloppy pacing, poor dialogue, sloppy special effects and Mattei’s usual disinterested direction ensures that Virus is a fairly dreadful film. Yet conversely, it’s oddly entertaining, the sheer awfulness of the film giving it the car-crash fascination of the Good Bad Movie. It’s certainly more fun than most of the other Zombie Flesh Eaters imitators or pseudo sequels, and if you can forget about trying to make sense of the narrative, is amusingly trashy, with enough gore – including a show-stopping scene at the end – and nudity to keep exploitation fans happy.

David Flint, Horrorpedia

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‘Survival of the foxiest’

Fetish Factory is a 2014 American comedy horror film written and directed by Staci Layne Wilson for Blanc/Biehn Productions. It stars Jennifer Blanc, Carrie Keagan, Chase Williamson (John Dies At the End), Tristan Risk (American Mary), Diane Ayala Goldner (The Collector), Jenimay Walker (Serpent’s Lullaby), Emma Julia Jacobs (Hitchcock), Jesse Merlin (Re-Animator: The Musical), Ruben Pla (Big Ass Spider), Daniel Quinn (Rubber), Benjamin Easterday (Poseidon Rex), Tom Ayers (Boch) and Stephen Wastell (Malignant).

Official synopsis:

The story centers on pin-up vixens vs. bloodthirsty zombies, and is set in post-apocalyptic Hollywood. Imagine a wickedly saucy by invitation-only stage show and posh private peeps in which your every fantasy can come true, fulfilled by the likes of luscious ladies imitating the sex goddesses of yore: Bettie Page, Jayne Mansfield, and Suzie Wong. Along with classic burlesque strip-teases and curio acts – a ventriloquist, a magician, and a whip-dancer – you are in for the night of your life at the Fetish Factory. That is, until your life is at stake when the apocalypse strikes! Once mild-mannered men become bloodthirsty zombies and it’s up to the girls to defend themselves by any means – even if that means turning their bullet bras, garter belts and spike-heels into deadly weapons…

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