Don't Look In The Basement (DVD)

...................The big red button phenomenon.................................... Throughout your life, I am sure that you have had a moment when you know you should not do something, but you really want to. Like in the film's, when there is a big red button with 'don't push' written beside it. Try as you might, you cannot resist the urge to press it. Well, in my life this phenomenon has led me to grow my collection of films to include several movies from the 'video nasty' genre. Generally these films are terrible, and there should be no reason for you to want to watch them. However, there is something niggling me, right at the back of my otherwise empty ...  Read the complete review

(This is a review of the Stax Entertainment DVD. God bless you, Stax Entertainment.) This is a comprehensively unimpressive low-budget horror outing from 1973. The only reason I wanted to see it was because of its status as one of the once-banned 'video nasties'. As with so many other nasties, this isn't really worth seeking out. But at least I can tick it off the list. It's set in a lunatic asylum. The chief doctor there has a controversial approach to treating his patients: he indulges their insane fantasies and lets them wander around freely. Can you guess what happens to him? (Yes, you can. He gets brutally axed to death by a sexually-repressed, ...  Read the complete review