You know, I will never let 15-year-old me live down the fact that he found Hellraiser incredibly boring because it wasn't Pinhead (oh sorry, Lead Cenobite) killing the entire time.

Obviously I was an idiot, because Hellraiser is one of the best. In an era dominated by slashers and less than serious genre films (all of which I still enjoy in their own ways) - writer/director Clive Barker brought out a faithful adaptation of his own material that was just…

Best described to the uninitiated as the sleazy and drug-laced offspring of John Carpenter's Halloween and William Lustig's Maniac. That description should absolutely be enough to tell you how you might feel about Nightmare.

While admittedly a bit amateur in its execution, Nightmare succeeds when it leans into its insanity. The atmosphere is intense and demented (elevated by some interesting unconventional storytelling), Baird Stafford is unforgettably disturbing in the lead role of George Tatum, and the violence is both genuinely…

Hey, Mary Whitehouse and Margaret Thatcher, just to let you know. Most of the people I know who actively grew up with video nasties are some of the nicest people I've had the pleasure of meeting. Fair to say, you two were pretty wrong.

While not overly complex, Ban the Sadist Videos (this first part at least) is a pretty decent intro into the UK's video nasty moral panic of the 1980s. Considering how much I've gotten into this era…