Satan’s Blood (1978)

Sex (a lot), cannibalism (not much) and black-candled, goat-worshipping flimflam (much more than normal) - just the way I like my Satanistic horror films. A few points:

• Why is the non-black dog called Blackie?
• How can they be following a car and then the same car approach them from behind?
• The ouija shit went on far too long.
• Stars an actress who looks very much like Jenny Agutter but gets her kit off even more.
• Was that magick lard they were smearing on each other?
• Who the hell was the bloke in the wooly hat?
• Why do they want to eat all the time?
• After the male satanist gets shot in the head, Jenny Agutter helpfully advises that "he needs a doctor"!
• Just how many times will they try and leave the house of the devil?
• What was with that doll?

A strange mix of bonkers and earnestness.

Note that the pretty crappy subtitles on the Screenbound blu-ray are often a little hard to read - small, white on white text is not good.

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Satanic Pandemonium (1975)

AKA: The Last Temptation of Sister María.

A little slower paced and not quite as crazy as Alucarda but Satanico Pandemonium has everything you need in a nunsploitation flick: boobs, bush, a cilice, flagellation, Satan, sex, lesbian sex, corruption of the innocent, murder, torture, a fluffy lamb, and, just when I thought we'd run out of time, an orgy.

Wicked theremin, organ and drum score.

Nope-Tober: Random Shit for an Ill-disciplined Mind

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The Masque of the Red Death (1964)

My favourite horror film as a child and the most poetic, beautiful (with stunning set designs and shot by Nicolas "Don't Look Now" Roeg) and terrifying (feudalism becomes modern neo-feudalism) of Corman's Poe adaptations. Contains nods to other Poe works including The Pit and the Pendulum, The Cask of Amontillado, The Raven and Hop-Frog. Vincent Price at his most despicable and decadent.

It's ridiculous that The Masque of the Red Death is still not available as a UK Blu-Ray - this was the German Koch Media Blu and the picture and sound quality was great.

Sic transit gloria mundi

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Alucarda (1977)

hysterical

[hi-ster-i-kuh l]
adjective

1) of, relating to, or characterized by hysteria.
2) uncontrollably emotional.
3) irrational from fear, emotion, or an emotional shock.
4) causing hysteria.
5) suffering from or subject to hysteria.
6) causing unrestrained laughter; very funny

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