Pick of the Shocks

Our definitive list of top video nasties and ace horror films.

Don't Open the Patio
(AKA: Don't Forget to Lock Your Windows, Helen Hides in the House, Knock Knock.)

Teenage girl at home alone at night spends an hour and 26 minutes running around her parents' house with the lights off, calling out "Hello?"

Starring Sandy Fandango.  US Colour 1980.


Children of the Quorn
(AKA: Children of the Vegan Moon, Not Bacon, The Krankies.)

Vegetarian sequel.  "The only slaughter is human!"  Low budget Stephen King rip-off.

Starring Pee-Wee Herman.  US Colour 1984.

 


Texas Chainstore Massacre
(AKA: Chainstore Massacre, Chainstore Slaughter, Texas Massacre, I Don't Want a Lover.)

DIY disasters with a difference - you won't see this on "Changing Rooms".  Escaped lunatic goes on the stalk 'n' slash with power-tools.

Starring Cilla Black and Carol Decker.  UK Colour 1988.

 


Bloody Awful
(AKA: Mind Your Language, Foreign Muck, Muck for Luck.)

Panic and hysteria hit the Spanish resort of Costa del Sol when a language school starts losing its pupils in a series of bizarre killings.  Directed by Des Pickable.  

Starring Pedro Carlos Santini, Adrienne D'Angelo and Keith Baron.  Spain Colour 1981.

 


There's Someone Behind You
(AKA: There's Someone Following You, There's Someone Hiding Up That Dark Alley, Chase Me.)

Usual fare.  Stalker killer on the rampage through the streets of London and its Underground.  At night, obviously.  

Starring a pre-Terminator Linda Hamilton.   US Colour 1982.

 


Awaiting picture

Faeces of Death
(AKA: Faces of Satan, Faeces of Satan, Shit Your Load.)

Supposedly true accounts of people being scared to death.  Shows graphic images of poopy pants found post mortem.  Many claim this is real - looks like dog-do to me.

Starring Craig McClachlan.  Australia Colour 1988.

 


Awaiting picture Don't Go To A Car Park At Night And Drop Your Car Keys Down A Grid
(AKA: Don't Go To Night School, Stranger Danger, Girlschool.)

Lady goes to night school and loses her car keys after fumbling around with them trying to open her car door.  She looks around but everyone else has gone...or have they? 

Starring Susan Penhaligon.  UK Colour 1980.

 


Maniac Dinnerlady
(AKA: Don't Tell Her It's Got Lumps In, Take Your Tray Back, Miss Diane.)

"She'll boil your spuds."  School dinnerlady cooks up the children at the Fairley High Secondary School.  Brilliant sequence with a potato masher.

Starring Beryl Reid.  UK Colour 1973.

 


Night of the Pensioners
(AKA: Zombie Pensioners, Curse of the Pensioners, Coffin Dodgers, Night of the Biddies.)

Zombie flick featuring old people being drugged by a bent care-worker at the local rest home.  A homemade drug slipped into mugs of Ovaltine renders the old folk undead, and the town's streets are overrun by the OAPs eating anything that breathes.  Very scary.

Starring June Whitfield and Windsor Davies.  UK Colour 1976.

 


Don't Look in the Loft
(AKA: Don't Go in the Attic, Don't Get the Ladders Out, Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough.)

Madman lives in the attic of a New York apartment block and moves around the house at night spying in the bedrooms, then kills all the tenants one night.

Starring Rip Torn.  US Colour 1979.

 


The House on the Left Past the Round-a-bout
(AKA: The Madman's House, The House That Bled All Night, The House That Jack Built.)

A lunatic escapes from the nearby mental asylum. It's raining and he'd like to find somewhere to rest and the nearest house is the one on the left past the round-a-bout - it's full of teenagers having a party and he wants some peace and quiet...

Starring Lee Majors and Donald Pleasance.  US Colour 1971.

 


Caves of Death
(AKA: Caves of Doom, Horror Caves, Horror Caverns, Horror of the Caveman, Captain Caveman, Wookey Hole.)

A group of teenagers stumble upon an old cave by the woods.  Daring each other to go in, they find more than stalagmites...

Starring Roy Kinear and a young Keith Chegwin.  UK Colour 1972.

 


Awaiting picture Night of the Nimble Nazis
(AKA: Nazi Camp Death Romp, SS Death Camp of Doom, SS Single Bed, 'Allo 'Allo.)

Sadistic sex-romp torture movie set in a German prisoner of war camp.  Female guards torture the inmates with whips and bratwurst.

Starring Sylvia Kristal and Gordon Kaye.  Italy Colour 1975.

 


Tesco Chainsaw Massacre
(AKA: Supermarket Stalk, Checkout Chop-up, Have You Got A Clubcard?, He Knows You've Got More Than 5 Items Or Less.)

The checkout girls and boys at the local Tesco go nutzoid after the UHT milk turns radioactive and leaks. 

Starring Dale Winton.  UK Colour 1990.

 


Awaiting picture Don't Go Into The Woods Or You'll Trip Over And Die
(AKA: Twigs, My Baby Don't Care For Trees, Forest Stump.)

Numerous, stupid young teenage girls are compelled to run into the dark woods alone, where they trip up and are strangled by their snagged stockings. 

Starring Jenny Powell, Farrah Fawcett, Yvette Fielding and Dawn French.  UK Colour 1988.

 


Awaiting picture I Shit On Your Grave
(AKA: Now Wash Your Hands, Don't Use The Bidet, Chocco Horror.)

A faecal fetishist makes a big mistake when he drops one on Count Mondo's grave, causing the undead lord to return to wreak shit and vengeance on anyone "at stool".

Starring Suzanne Danielle and Harry Secombe.  UK Colour 1980.

 


Awaiting picture He Knows You're Having Sex
(AKA: Femidom Ferox, I Don't Want To Die A Virgin, The Humping, Coitus Interruptus.)

Mysterious man in a deerstalker hat spies on young couples copulating, and he's jealous!  Each couple are slain mid swing in increasingly inventive murders, climaxing in a spectacular triple death involving a threesome, six slugs and a Stannah Stairlift.  

Starring John Wayne Bobbit.  US Colour 1991.

 


Awaiting picture Stephen King's "The Easter Bunny"
(AKA Hares of Hell, Bad Bugs, No Eggs For Johnny.)

Based on a novel by Stephen King.  Killer rabbits from outer space invade the small town of Pittsville.  

Starring Melvyn Hayes and the Double Decker gang.  UK/US Colour 1974.

 


Cannibal Disco
(AKA: Last Night a DJ Ate My Wife, Ghoul and The Gang, Stayin' Alive.)

Death on the dancefloor as the unwitting punters at The Fresh Meat Discotheque discover they are the nibbles.  

Starring Alan Freeman, Dave Lee Travis and Tina Charles.  UK Colour 1979.

 

 


Awaiting picture Comedy of Terrors
(AKA: Die Laughing, Bust a Gut, What a Carry On.)

Dentist gets patients giddy with the ol' laughing gas then promptly uses his drill on their eyes.  The laughter doesn't last.  Gruesome.

Starring Oliver Reed.  UK 1980.

 


Awaiting picture Ice Scream
(AKA: Skate or Die, Winter Nympholympics, Ice Ice Baby, Vanilla Ice Must Die.)

Terror at the local ice rink as a pink booted serial killer stalks the Winter Olympics Ice Skating team. The shocking twist at the end is totally predictable.

Starring Dick Van Winkle, Barbara Bolero, Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean.  USSR Colour 1984.

 


Zombie Crèche Eaters

(AKA: Necro Nannies, Return of the Baby Eating Bishop of Bath and Wells, Paedo-Feast, Whose Baby?, Please Don't Eat My Daughter.)

The staff at the Notre Dame Nursery have eaten one too many radioactive rusks and get a taste for fresh baby.  Who will survive till 3.30?  The final showdown between the parents and the nannies from hell was described by AARRRGH! magazine as "arousing".

Starring Floella Benjamin, Bernie Winters and Schnorbitz.  UK Colour 1981.


Awaiting picture I Know What You Cooked Last Tuesday

(AKA: The Mange-Tout Murders, Seven Sausages for Satan, Death Chef, Farmhouse Kitchen)

Horrifyingly bad movie where TV celebrity chefs are suspected of murdering Graham Kerr. Who is guilty? Who is innocent? Who cares? At least Jamie Oliver is stabbed to death with a potato peeler and a corkscrew shoved up his arse. Woo-hoo!

Starring Anthony Worral-Thompson, Ainsley Harriot, Jamie Oliver, Susan Brookes, That annoying twat with the Yorkshire accent, Judi Spiers and Helen Shapiro  UK Colour 1997


Awaiting picture Murders at the Rude Morgue

(AKA: Confessions of a Serial Killer, Sex Seance, Sex and Stabbing, Sale of the Century)

Bawdy Horror romp. A group of seven at a secret seance orgy at the local morgue will need more than latex protection when they awaken the spirit of the Indian God of Sex and Death (Humpodef) who takes the human form of Nicholas Parsons. Terrifying.

Starring Robin Askwith, Sally Thomsett, Nigel Havers and Nicholas Parsons.  UK Colour 1979

 

Awaiting picture Night of the Thousand Jehovah's Witnesses

(AKA: Don't Answer The Door On Sunday, Close the Curtains Mommy, Tentacles of the God Botherers, Run Away from the Watch Tower)

The sleepy village of Boredam is invaded by a plague of murderous Jehovah's Witnesses. Convert or die! Contains scenes of extreme religious psychosis and hiding from the gas man. You have been warned.

Starring Jean Claude Van Damme, Shelley Winters, Patrick Troughton and Julie Goodyear. UK Colour 1984


Awaiting picture He Knows You've Got Ferrero Rocher

(AKA: Ambassador of Death, Fondant of Fear, The Narcotic Nuts of Nestle)

The Ambassador is really spoiling his guests with his new chocolates, but there's something sinister in those sweets... Has to win the award for the most inventive death involving cocoa powder, walnuts and a home enema kit.

Starring Donald Sinden, Judi Dench, Johnny Briggs and Jacques Cousteau.  Belgium, Colour 1983


Awaiting picture Attack of the Gnomes

(AKA: Shed Shock, Garden of Guts, Lawn of the Dead, Ground Force)

After a heavy shower of acid rain, the gnomes in the gardens of the small town of Budley Salterton run wild on a savage murder spree. Fishing rods are an effective murder weapon, apparently.

Starring Derek Nimmo, Susan Tully, Alan Titchmarsh and Charlie Dimmock.  UK Colour 1990


Stay tuned - more to come...

Compiled by Bacon Horror and Pork Menace

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