JIGOKU PRESENTS NIGHT OF THE LIVING DIRT:  
LATE NIGHT VIDEO TAPE HORROR EXPLOITATION PROGRAMME

SCREENING TIMES BENEATH FILM DESCRIPTIONS

BLUE EYES OF THE BROKEN DOLL (SPAIN DIRECTOR: CARLOS AURED, 1973)
JIGOKU’S FAVOURITE GIALLO IS A TWISTED, SLEAZY MIX OF VIOLENT MURDER AND PERVERSE SEXUALITY FROM SPAIN’S MASTER OF HORROR JACINTO MOLINA (BETTER KNOWN TO ENGLISH SPEAKING FANS AS PAUL NASCHY) AND CARLOS AURED (HELMER OF CLASSIC 70’S PAELLA NASTIES HORROR RISES FROM THE TOMB AND VENGEANCE OF THE MUMMY).   AN EX CON DRIFTER (NASCHY) IS WELCOMED IN TO THE HOME OF THREE STRANGE SISTERS.  THEY WASTE NO TIME IN GETTING THEIR NEW GUEST IN TO BED (ESPECIALLY THE ELDEST WHO HAS A DISFIGURED HAND).  MEANWHILE, A SPATE OF BLOODY KILLINGS IS PLAGUING THE AREA – COULD ONE OF THE SISTERS BE THE CULPRIT OR IS NASCHY THE MAIN SUSPECT (A BIZARRE DREAM SEQUENCE REVEALS HE STRANGLED HIS WIFE).  BANNED IN THE UK DURING THE NOTORIOUS VIDEO NASTY DEBACLE OF THE MID 80’S (AND STILL AWAITING A BRITISH RELEASE TO THIS DAY), THIS IS A UNIQUE, LEFT FIELD GIALLI THAT REFUSES TO PLAY BY THE RULES.  JUAN CARLOS CALDERON PERFORMS THE ASTOUNDING JAZZ/FOLK INFUSED SCORE.  TO ADD A GENUINLY GRUBBY OLD SCHOOL VIBE BLUE EYES OF THE BROKEN DOLL WILL BE PRESENTED IN IT’S ORIGINAL BANNED UK VIDEO PRINT INCARNATION.  

SCORPION THUNDERBOLT (HONG KONG DIRECTOR: GODFREY HO, 1988)
IF YOU HAVE NEVER WITNESSED AN IFD MOVIE BEFORE THEN BE PREPARED TO BE BLOWN SIDEWAYS BY THIS DEMENTED ASIAN HORROR ACTION CUT AND PASTE ATROCITY FROM LEGENDARY FAR EASTERN MOGUL JOSEPH LAI.  A HIDEOUS SNAKE MONSTER STALKS THE ALLEYWAYS OF HONG KONG LOOKING FOR VICTIMS TO DEVOUR.  MEANWHILE, ADVENTURER RICHARD (EURO STAR RICHARD HARRISON STAR OF MANY 60’S CONTINENTAL SPY MOVIES) HUNTS A LETHAL WITCH WITH A MAGICAL SWORD AND SHIELD.  PACKED WITH SLO-MO KUNG FU BATTLES, WEIRD SEXUAL RITES, GORE, OUTRAGEOUS DUBBING AND A MAD ELECTRO SCORE IT DOESN’T GET ANY MADDER THAN THIS – A SEMINAL LATE NIGHTER FOR THE JIGOKU CREW FROM BACK IN THE DAY – YOU WON’T BELIEVE IT!

THE DEMON LOVER (US DIRECTOR: DONALD G. JACKSON AND JERRY YOUNKINS, 1976)
AFTER HIS COVEN DISBAND FOLLOWING A BUMMED OUT RITUAL OCCULT MARTIAL ARTIST LAVAL BLESSING SUMMONS AN EVIL DEMON TO DISPATCH THOSE WHO HAVE DESERTED HIM.  NOTHING WILL PREPARE YOU FOR THIS DEMENTED US INDIE HORROR GEM FROM MICHIGAN.  MADE FOR TABLE SCRAPS WITH A LARGELY IMPROVISED CAST AND IMBEDDED WITH A WACKED OUT ‘MANSONESQUE’ VIBE YOU WILL TRULY BE CLIMBING THE WALLS BY THE RIDICULOUS CLIMAX.  ALSO FEATURES GUNAR ‘LEATHERFACE’ HANSEN IN A CAMEO AND SICK ELECTRONICS FROM DON GUTZ AND JERRY SKOLASINSKI.

PREMONITION (US DIRECTOR: ALAN RUDOLPH, 1971)
A MACABRE MASTERPIECE OF TRIPPED OUT COUNTER CULTURE FROM ALAN RUDOLPH (RESPECTED HOLLYWOOD AUTEUR WHO WENT ON TO HELM US INDIE HITS CHOOSE ME AND TROUBLE IN MIND).  A STONER ROCK BAND TRAVEL TO THEIR SECLUDED LOG CABIN TO REHEARSE FOR AN IMPENDING ‘FREAK OUT’ MUSIC HAPPENING.  THEY BEGIN TO SMOKE A WEIRD BRAND OF GRASS MYSTERIOUSLY LEFT BY THE FORMER OCCUPANT AND EXPERIENCE WILD HALLUCINATIONS.  MEANWHILE, STRANGE, UNSEEN FORCES IN THE WOODS THREATEN THEIR GROWING PARANOIA AND SANITY.  A NEGLECTED PSYCHOTROPIC CLASSIC WITH NOISY ELECTRONICS FROM 4AD ALLUMINOUS HAROLD BUDD.  

HEADLESS EYES (US DIRECTOR: KEN BATEMAN, 1971)
THIS COULD WELL BE THE ULTIMATE NEW YORK HORROR SLEAZER OF THEM ALL – WHATEVER YOUR TAKE THE DIRT LITERALLY DRIPS OFF THE SCREEN AS A DEMENTED ARTIST TAKES REVENGE ON THOSE WHO HAVE WRONGED HIM BY REMOVING THEIR EYEBALLS.  LARGELY IMPROVISED BY A PROPER ‘GHETTO’ CAST THIS SEETHES TWISTED LUNACY SO IT’S NO SURPRISE IT WAS HELMED BY PRODUCERS NORMALLY INVOLVED IN GRINDING OUT MID 70’S PORNOS.

WOLF DEVIL WOMAN (HONG KONG/TAIWAN DIRECTOR: LING CHANG, 1982)
A GIRL IS RAISED BY WOLVES AFTER HER MOTHER AND FATHER ARE SLAUGHTERED BY THE EVIL RED DEVIL AND HIS LEGION OF MONSTERS.  SHE GROWS TO BECOME A FEARED WHITE HAIRED DEMON SWORDS WOMAN KNOWN AS THE WOLFEN NINJA WHO IS HELL BENT ON AVENGING HER PARENTS MURDER.  CUE INCREDIBLE CANDY COLOURED PSYCHEDELIC STROBING EFFECTS, GORY SPLATTER AND BEAUTIFULLY CHOREGRAPHED MARTIAL ART SWORD DUELS FROM AN UNCREDITED JACKIE CHAN.  DIRECTOR CHANG (ALSO KNOWN AS PEARL CHEONG) STARS AS THE TITULER HEROINE WHOSE DEADLY SKILLS AND MAGIC POWERS ARE BROUGHT TO THE FORE IN A CRAZED CLIMAX THAT WILL HAVE YOU REACHING FOR THE MANDREX IN DISBELIEF.

A COLD NIGHT’S DEATH (US DIRECTOR: JERROLD FREEMAN, 1973)
SCIENTISTS AT A REMOTE SNOW BOUND POLAR STATION SUSPECT THEY ARE NOT ALONE.  IS THERE AN EVIL BEING TRACKING THEIR EVERY MOVE OR ARE THEY GOING INSANE?  SUFFUSED WITH A CLAUSTROPHOBIC VIBE OF IMPENDING DREAD AND SICK ELECTRONIC SOUND WAVES FROM GIL MELLE.  WE SUSPECT THIS LITTLE SEEN MADE FOR TV OBSCURITY TO BE THE TEMPLATE FOR JOHN CARPENTER’S REIMAGINING OF THE THING.

BLOOD LUST (GERMANY DIRECTOR: MARIJAN DAVID VAJDA, 1976)
A DEAF MUTE ACCOUNTANT UNABLE TO FORM RELATIONSHIPS WITH THE OPPOSITE SEX (EURO EXPLOITATION ICON WERNER POCHATH) LEADS A SOLITARY, MEANINGLESS LIFE.  SMEARING BLOOD ON HIS LIPS THE MUTE LONER FORMS A PERVERSE YEARNING FOR SUCKING THE BLOOD FROM THE BODIES OF FEMALE CORPSES (USING A UNIQUE JAGGED STRAW DEVICE).  THIS PERVERSE LUST FOR BLOOD SOON ESCALATES IN TO AN OBESSION THAT LEADS TO MADNESS AND MURDER.  A BIZARRE, SLEAZY FEVER DREAM OF MACABRE EURO WEIRDNESS WITH A HEARTFELT PERFORMANCE FROM POCHATH OF GUT WRENCHING SADNESS.  DAVID LLEWELLYN’S BEAUTIFUL SCORE GREATLY ENHANCES THE WIGGED OUT VIBE TO MAKE BLOOD LUST THE GREAT UNSUNG CLASSIC OF NECROPHLIAC CINEMA.  THE PRINT BEING SCREENED FOR THIS PROGRAMME IS THE UNCUT WIDESCREEN VERSION WITH DUTCH SUBTITLES.

THE STRANGLER OF VIENNA (ITALY/GERMANY DIRECTOR: GUIDO ZERLI, 1971)
HERE’S A BIZARRE CONFECTION OF EURO SLEAZE HORROR SHOT THROUGH WITH THE DARKEST OF BLACK HUMOUR FROM TRASH ENTREPRENEUR DICK RANDALL AND ACTION JOURNEYMAN ZURLI (RESPONSIBLE FOR MANY EURO CRIME/SPAGHETTI WESTERN CO-PRODUCTIONS SUCH AS TARGET AND THEY CALLED HIM AMEN).  VICTOR BUONO (WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE?) IS ECCENTRIC PEEPING TOM WEIRDO OTTO LEHMAN.  OTTO HAS JUST BEEN RELEASED FROM THE ASYLUM AND RETURNS TO HIS OLD HAUNT OF VIENNA TO MAKE HIS FAMOUS SAUSAGES.  FOLLOWING A SPATE OF STRANGULATIONS JOURNALIST MIKE LAWRENCE (PEPLUM STAR BRAD HARRIS) INVESTIGATES OTTO AND THE ‘SECRET’ INGREDIENTS OF HIS SUCCESS.  QUIRKY STRANGENESS FROM THE HALYCON DAYS OF EURO EXPLOITATION WITH A HAUNTING SCORE FROM ITALIAN MAESTRO ALESSANDRO ALESSANDRONI (THE ‘WHISTLE’ FROM ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST AND A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS).