Hellfire Video Club: Spookies!
3 spookies fit to peer through your fingers to.
Seeing as we can't go trick or treating this Saturday, Hellfire video club are back with a trio of film picks guaranteed to destroy some underwear and brain cells just in time for All Hallow’s Eve!
Let’s Scare Jessica To Death!
John Hancock, USA, 1971.
Super vibey hippie folk horror flick from 70’s America. Exploring the hinterland between madness and the supernatural. A young woman, Jessica just released from a psychiatric institution, goes to stay in a rural farmhouse with friends — but they find a mysterious drifter already living there. Is this drifter demonic, or is Jessica mentally ill?? Killer wood-smoked New Hollywood atmosphere, with nods to the failing counter-cultural revolution of the times, this is a big HFVC fave. Amazing early synthesizer score to boot.
Burial Ground
Andrea Bianchi, Italy, 1981.
During the post-Dawn of the Dead early 80’s, Italy produced a butt-load of poorly made but great fun Zombie films — and this is one of the very best. Bad acting rubs shoulders with plentiful gore, non-stop slo-mo manky zombie action and gratuitous oedipal unpleasantness. Also has a top-ranking burbling analogue synth score. What else do you need??
Noroi: The Curse
Koji Shiraishi, Japan, 2005.
From the tail-end of the fertile J-horror cycle comes this “Blair Witch”-alike fake-documentary flick, following a filmmaker exploring a supernatural occurence in rural Japan. Confusing Japanese folkloric elements layer up an intriguing plot that builds and builds into a frigging nightmare! Defo one of the best of these sort of ‘found footage’ films.
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