Monster (2008) – Friday Morning Creature Feature from the Bargain Basement of Terror

It's been a while since our last Friday Morning Creature Feature, but don't worry there's a lot of them about. Right this little gem (or is it a rotting vegetable?) Monster (2018) was a quid from the British Heart Foundation shop. Climate change documentary makers Erin (Erin Evans) and Sarah (Sarah Lieving) Lynch arrange to...

King Arthur’s Sword (2017)

On sale at your local Sainsburys right now for a fiver is King Arthur's Sword. Buyer beware as they say this film is also known as King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table and it's an Asylum knockoff timed to coincide with the imminent release of Guy Ritchie's hotly anticipated King Arthur: Legend...

Vampire Shadows AKA Shira the Vampire Samurai (2005) from the Bargain Basement of Terror

The artwork on the box said Underworld/Blade knockoff to me, 'How bad can Vampire Shadows be?' I wondered. Like Blade, Shira (Chona Jason) is a semi vampire having been bitten in 16th century Japan (we know that it's old Japan because of the bloke trying to run about in Samurai armour) and committing seppuku before...

Raiders of the Lost Shark (2014) Bargain Basement of Terror Friday Morning Creature Feature

I love mooching in Poundstores you can sometimes find some tiny cult treasures in the DVD rails where the big wholesalers dump their overstocks. Shame Raiders of the Lost Shark isn't one of them. I should really have deduced that when I read 'The perfect so-bad-it's-awesome movie' quote on the box, but then it was...

Bargain Basement of Terror – Cowboys and Vampires (2010)

Also known as Dead West, Cowboys and Vampires disappointed from the moment it came out of the shrink-wrap. This bargain basement release attempted ride on the coat tails of the bigger budgeted turkey that was Cowboys and Aliens, but only succeeded in being even more rubbish. To kick off with Cowboys and Vampires isn't even...

The Human Centipede 3 (Final Sequence) (2015)

Prison governor Bill Boss (Dieter Laser) has a problem. His jail is beset by riots, spiraling costs and high staff turnover, but worse than that the state governor (Eric Roberts) is on his back in an election year. Naturally it does not help that Boss is a deranged sadistic psycho with a taste for mutilation,...

Dracula’s Widow (1988) – The Bargain Basement of Horror

You know Raymond Everett (Lenny von Dolen) really should have been more careful when he signed for that delivery of coffin sized boxes from Romania. Intent on getting his Dracula display up and running at his Hollywood waxwork museum the extra box was the last thing on his mind until Dracula's widow Vanessa (Sylvia Kristel)...

Bram Stoker’s Legend of the Mummy 2 (2000) – Bargain Basement of Horror

About the kindest thing I can say about this movie is that the British Heart Foundation made £1.99 out of my impulse buy. It goes without saying that this is a sequel of sorts to Bram Stoker's Legend of the Mummy, which is based upon Stoker's other great book The Jewel of the Seven Stars...

After Midnight (2014)

Catherine Annette plays Constance, a local TV newsreader in Los Angeles. Breaking news that night is the gunning down of her wayward sister Duffy outside the Candy Cat pole-dancing club where she worked. Haunted by the image of he dead sister with a bullet in her head, Constance takes a break from work to go...

Indie Buzz: Motivational Growth (2013)

Ian Folivor (Adrian DiGiovanni) has not been out of his apartment for months. He only moves from his couch to go to the toilet, the place is filthy and takeaway cartons and dirty plates litter the surfaces. When his ancient TV dies he decides to end it all by cooking up some chlorine gas in the bath, only...