Brides of Blood - the last film of the "Blood" collection and as part three, this is a different one. It's a mix of the previous films atmosphere and some Godzilla atomic age warning morale added in. The story is about a team of Americans setting foot on a remote island which is in the zone where atomic bombs were tested in the 1940s. The team sets out to help the indigenous people of the island, but they have "returned to the ways of their ancestors" as they put it. They mean a ritual where young women are selected to be sort of sacrificed to some creature. This creature is the result of the atomic tests and wants to "be satisfied" by the young women who are being strapped to poles and usually don't survive the ordeal. The members of the team are shocked of course but they also try to find out where the creature comes from: it will be a big surprise when they find out! I enjoyed this one a lot, the effects were funny to see and you can look for the threads moving the branches of the mutated trees. Actin was pretty much OK but the creature is priceless. Recommended for bad moviefans.

Color Out Of Space - good scifi film with Nicolas Cage on a roll as the father of a family who happen to have some kind of a meteor land in their garden. The rock glows strangely and it also makes sounds. The next morning the police, the mayor and the local TV crew are coming around, but the rock has gone by then. Of course nobody believes there was a UFO or anything, but in the next few nights, strange things start happening: the dog disappears, the mother of the family cuts her fingers off while preparing dinner and on the way back from the hospital they see a strange glowing cat on the road. Things get worse when they find out the alpacas they keep have turned into some strange looking creature, where will this end? Great acting, good atmosphere and some nice subplots about the town wanting to expand economically, the usual creature feature stuff. The alien is cool, especially its form, pretty original. Enough gore to go around and the ending is also well done imo. Recommended!

Black Emanuelle 2 - an Emauelle film without Laura Gemser, it has been a while since I saw one of those and it takes some getting used to. Sharlon Lesley takes the role this time and she looks very different from Gemser with a more voluptuous body and short curly hair instead of the long locks of Gemser. In the story Emanuelle is under treatment of a psychiatrist because she lost her memory after she was the victim of an explosion during the civil war in Lebanon. For her doctor it's a mystery: Emanuelle seems to remember things which are opposite of what her friends and family remember. Who is speaking the truth? In the meantime most of these memroies are sexrelated of course, otherwise there isn't any lead to show off as much skin as possible. The Severin release I watched has a pristine image and sound quality, very nice to watch. Almost as if it's a film from more modern times whereas it's from 1976. Acting is OKish, the dub is bad but you can get used to it and although the story is somewhat boring, they try to make as much as possible of it by having memories about very different locations like Venice and Beirut. It's fun, but I prefer the Gemser films.

Seeds of Evil - aka The Gardener. A film about next to nothing, in which a woman who feels very alone (because her husband is busy working) hires a strange gardener who always seems to run around (half) naked. His previous employers all have died and as soon as he starts working on the garden,m two things happen: the garden becomes the object of widepsread jealousy in the neighbourhood because of its beauty, and strange things start happening too, like people getting sick all of a sudden and pets dying. Apparently the gardener is a tree commanding all other flora to kill, but I didn't gather that from the film, might have to do with the late hour and my muffled brain, but still. This was pretty boring overall and although the cast tries to make something out of it, the wooden appearance of the gardener and the lack of spectacular kills make this a numb horror imo.

7 Cadaveri Per Scotland Yard - aka Jack el destripador de Londres. A Spanish giallo, I know only a few of them, but this is a good one! It has all the classic ingredients: a gloved knife killer, a good number of naked female victims, the police wandering around in the dark and several suspects and matching red herrings. Acting is nice, although Naschy is a wooden actor he is still some sort of a presence on the screen. The plot is pretty good, it's some kind of a throwback to Jack the Ripper but not entirely. Halfway through I thought I knew who the killer was by some subtle sentence in a scene of no importance, but I turned out to be wrong: the red herring caught me this time. The dubbing was meh, but the only option for me: there was no Spanish track on this disc even though it's a Spanish film, but as usual part of the cast was speaking English, part Spanish and part Italian. Good fun, recommended, especially for giallo fans!

Don't Look Now - after John and Laura Baxter (Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie) lose their daughter in a drowning accident we find them in Venice where John works on restoring a church. The work consumes him and when they meet two sisters, one of whom is blind and gifted with "second sight", they hear about their daughter still being there. John wants to know nothing of it ("She's dead!") but Laura wants to know more, as she started to feel much better after the experience. Although John doesn't believe in the psychic powers, he starts seeing a little girl running around in a red coat, just as his daughter was wearing when she drowned. Things start spiraling out of control after Laura has returned to England quickly to check on their son and John still sees her in Venice. A beautifully made film, where the image tells the story. The plot itself is not really elaborate, but the city, the water, the boats, the people on the boats and in the houses, the weather, it all is part of a big artform, like a huge painting. I enjoyed this a lot not only because of this image storytelling but also because of the great acting: everyone does a great job and Sutherland and Christie are superb! If you want gore you should look elsewhere but if you want mystery with a bit of murder, this is a great choice. Recommended!

Forbidden Paris - aka Paris Interdit. This shockumentary features as a double on the The Sadist with the Red Teeth DVD and it's an interesting little thing. It's not real (you can see some people feature in several items as different characters) but it has some fun chapters. There are chapters on strange cults, fakirism, doomsday preppers, you name it. Nothing particularly Parisian in my eyes, but you could imagine that some of this stuff could only flourish in big cities like Paris. A fun pastime but not really a film with a story, it's more of an anthology focusing on modern day anthropology. Fake anthropology of course.

Monsturd - the plot of this made me laugh: an escaped convict gets shot next to a sewer and the present chemicals and faeces turn him into a big pile of poop. This shitmonster starts killing and both the police and a mad scientist are after him, for different purposes of course. The front cover of the film is misleading as the shitmonster doesn't seem to have hands like shown on there, neither is it hunting pretty ladies as suggested on said cover. The film turns into a corny cringefest rather quickly and from then on the shit-jokes are filling the air. Gets repetitive fast but the premise is still absurdly funny. It's a shame the execution was done so poorly, otherwise this might have become a cult classic fast. As it is, it doesn't beat any other highschool shot on video recording. Could have been much better.

Brutes and Savages - another shockumentary, but this one is more in the line of the cannibal/mondo films than with Paris Interdit, as it visits (apparently) remote parts in Africa and South America. It states in the beginning that all scenes are based on truth, whether they are real or reconstructed. This should get you on the edge of your seat, because which scenes are gonna be real and which are gonna be faked? Well, rest assured: most of the "spectacular" scenes are faked imo. Some scenes contain the slaying of animals: lama, turtle, goat, etc. This sometimes looks pretty real, but the blood has a strange colour which led me to believe it was fake blood., How they did it, not sure, but I'm pretty sure not many animals were actually killed on camera. The script contains some cliches of the genre, like "we were not allowed to film this, but we did it anyway, knowing we were risking our lives!" ba da boom! It also has those scenes filmed in ways you can hardly do it candidly, like with close ups and wide shots alternated. The best fake scene is the one where the African youngsters have to cross a river with crocodiles in it: it is so fake you won't believe it till you see it. It has shots of the guy in the river, shots of a different guy in a swimming pool (both without croc in sight) and shots of a fake croc biting away at a fake arm. Hilariously bad, I was laughing out loud at this scene. Others are not as spectacularly fake, but it still is rather interesting. It does contain fake info as well. One culture is described as having declined because of unlimited sexual behaviour, this is total BS as that culture went under because of natural disaster, probably caused by El Niño. The scenes with people are alternated with stock footage of animals fighting each other, tese scenes have nothing to do with the rest of the film, in South America it is even in a very different location compared to the other scenes. It was interesting, but I enjoyed the mondo/cannibal films more, so not sure if I will ever watch this again.

Dark Heritage - an adaptation of an H.P. Lovecraft story "The Lurking Fear", of which I have seen a different movie years ago. This one is much more B-grade: acting is rather wooden, dialogue seems ro be read out loud and there are some serious goofs going on. Besides the classic microphone visible in the top screen, there are some rainscenes in a caravan in which you can obviously see that they are spraying the caravan with a gardenhose (the top of the screen shows you there is no rain at all there). This made me laugh out loud, the monsters aren't as bad, but the film never succeeds in leaving its B-grade environment. The plot twist is hardly a surprise for the horrorfan, but if you like bad movies, this one is a candidate for a night with friends.

Silver Saddle - a western by Lucio Fulci. Of course horrorfans know Fulci best because of his horrors like The Beyond and Nightmare Concert, but he also.made films in other genres, like sex comedies ans westerns. I had seen one western by him before "The Four of the Apocalypse" and this one is the second I have seen. It was rather inevitable to compare the two and I think that while you can still see in "Four of..." that Fulci is mostly a horror director (some mild gore in that film), you can't  really in this one. The story is quite nice, but the whole thing with the kid is a bit cringe. The kid's acting is not up to par and in the final scene it gets comical in some sort of a failed slapstick way. Apart from that, this is oretty enjoyable as a western. Nice wide shots of barren landscapes, cool firefights and a twist in the plot, albeit a bit predictable. All in all pretty good, so if you like (spaghetti) westerns or are a Fulci completist, check this one out.

Weekend Murders - aka Concerto per pistola solista. A giallo by a director I hadn't heard of before. It's introduced shortly by Peter Baldwin (who pronounces the Italian title wrongly)and then we are in England where a will is being read in the presence of a lawyer, a policeman and the remaining family members. Of course some get a lot others don't get anything and soon the first shot is fired at a family member. A detective is brought in to investigate, but it's actually the constable who makes the sharpest observations. This was a nice touch and the mystery as to who is the killer remains a mystery for almost the entire film. I guessed right this time, although I was wrong about the method being used by the killer as that was rather unguessable. Nice film, the characters are varied and pretty wild at times, acting is good and even though it's an Italian productionentirely, it gives off heavy British vibes overall. What I didn't like was that most of the murders were done by shots instead of slashing/hacking/knifekills, this is a minus for the giallo atmosphere in my book. Other than that good fun, and recommended for giallo/Italo fans.