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VAGRANT. (1992). D: Chris Walas

Young man buys himself a house, but inside there's a dirty wino which brings helluva trouble. FX master Walas' direction has it's moments but in the end is only average comedy/horror. Lead actor Bill Paxton is very fun to watch.

VALLEY OF THE DOLLS. (1967). D: Mark Robson

The Reigning Queen of all cult films based on the feted showbizz novel by Jacqueline Susann, a lesbian icon, heroine of all drag queens and a Broadway legend. Like the book, this Mark Robson film adaption will never age or lose any of it�s unique power. Thrill to the bitchy dialoque (�He�s no faggot and I�m the broad who can prove it!�), marvel at the the hairdos and the glittering costumes and end up in the Valley of the Dolls with the four main characters. The illustrious cast includes Sharon Tate, the late wife of Roman Polanski and the star of his film �The Fearless Vampire Killers�, later murdered by the Manson gang.

review by Asko Leinonen (from X-rated magazine)

VAMP. (1986). D: Richard Wenk

Beginning and special effects are good, but otherwise this "stripper vampires after college guys" isn't a great experience. Grace Jones as the lead vampire.

VAMPIRE'S KISS. (1988). D: Robert Bierman

Nicholas Cage in his best role for sure! Ultimately weird tale of a literary agent who turns into a vampire after a one-night stand with vampire woman. Or then he might have a nervous breakdown... Check it out! Unusual black comedy which is sometimes a too much sleeper, but still one of the most original vampire films to date.

VIDEO DEAD. (1987). D: Robert Scott

An ultra cheesy zombie flick where the living dead come out of an evil television to 'reek' havoc on a small town. Pretty good SFX. Bad acting, bad story, cool movie.

review by Mudbone

VIDEODROME. (1982). D: David Cronenberg

Maybe the Cronenberg's most famous flick has a very strange plot, where cable TV's real torture show (of unknown origin) causes tumor to people's brains...really! Very well acted by James Woods, and the whole film wouldn't be this good without him. Starring also Blondie singer Debbie Harry.

VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED. (1960). D: Wolf Rilla

Great atmospheric chiller, where a small English village has unusual threat - strange, frightening children who can read your mind, among other extraordinary things. Low-budget can be seen only in couple of embarrassing still-pictures used as special effect - to show the frightening eyes of children. Based on John Wyndham's novel Midwich Cuckoos. They used to make great horror films in England, back in 60's.

VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED. (1994). D: John Carpenter

Remake of the famous low-budget chiller. Carpenter has made one of the worst films of his director career. No thrills, no chills.

VIRGIN AMONG THE LIVING DEAD. (1972). D: Jess Franco

This is a bizarre film by cult favorite, Jess Franco. Embedded heavily with symbolism, it involves the story of Cristina who is invited to her fathers house on an island after his suicide. She arrives in town asking about the house. Everybody she speaks to says the house has been empty of years. She arrives finally at her family home greeted by her very eccentric relatives. During the day she dreams of sex orgies, during the night the dead rise and stalk her. I interpreted the film as having to do with sexual repression. However, I am sure opinions would differ. This film is very surrealistic, and very thought provoking. Good luck finding it, especially the fully uncut version. Four Skulls.

review by leviathan666@pacbell.net

VIRGIN OF NUREMBURG. (1964). D: Antonio Margheriti

Occasionally effective horror movie fails to live up its expectations, mostly because of "dead" scenes. Wife of torture instrument museum's owner is in danger, when a strange inquisitor begins to mutilate people. Couple of gruesome scenes, atmospheric from time to time but the end is ludicrous.

VIVA KNIEVEL!. (1977). D: Gordon Douglas

The evil one makes his big screen debut in this film. Known as the king of all daredevils, Knievel sure isn't the king of all actors. This film was made at the height of his success and only Evel could pull off a stunt like this! Hollywood legend Gene Kelly plays Evel's alcoholic mechanic, and he is one mean bastard. This guy reaks of self-hatred. When he's not berating someone he's off getting drunk. The plot of the movie is your basic hero saves the day and he does. This movie starts off very slow, but picks up its pace and there are some great stunts in it. My favorite is the scene with Evel jumping a bike off a hill top onto a moving trailer. Nothing can stop Evel Knievel. But if you do some homework on Evel, you'll find that in real life, Evel and Gene Kelly's character were closer to the same than his super-heroic role in the film. 106 min, Rated PG, Color, Available on videocassette. Director: Gordon Douglas. Cast Includes: Evel Knievel, Gene Kelly, Lauren Hutton, Marjoe Gortner, Red Buttons, Eric Shea, Leslie Nielsen, Cameron Mitchell, Frank Gifford, Albert Salmi, Dabney Coleman. Panavision.

WALKER. (1988). D: Alex Cox

Really strange comedy which has Ed Harris as William Walker, an american soldier who was president of Nicaragua of 19^th century. This is for patient viewers: it's one of the craziest movies ever made. Extraordinary with capital 'E'.

WARLOCK. (1988). D: Steve Miner

Supernatural horror/adventure about time-traveling warlock (Julian Sands) on the quest of the magic bible. Fun entertainment when you don't take it seriously. I'm sure it's not meant to.

WARNING SIGN. (1985). D: Hal Barwood

Needless toxic zombie flick with OK actors, but never really gives you thrills or entertain.

WATCHERS. (1988). D: Jon Hess

Adaptation of Dean R. Koontz novel is so boring mess, that I can't even recall what happened in it! Sorry.

WATCHERS II. (1990). D: Thierry Notz

Sometimes the sequel can be better than the original, and this one is amongst them. Deals with the intelligent dog and a monster after it, and Marc Singer and Tracy Scoggins as the heroic partners. Not bad, not good.

WAXWORK. (1988). D: Anthony Hickox

A bunch of rich teenagers visit a wax work where they become drawn into the displays, and have to battle the mummy, werewolves zombies, and vampires. Wicked gore special fx, a cool story, and good acting.

review by Mudbone

WELCOME TO SPRING BREAK. (1988). D: Harry Kirkpatrick(Umberto Lenzi)

Utterly dumb mix of horror and beach-beer-boobs comedy, with psycho wearing black helmet and killing the stupid brats and so on. Why in hell those damn Italian splatter-directors use awful pseudonyms and try to be American? Lenzi should go back to make those much more interesting cannibal flicks.

WELCOME TO ARROW BEACH. (1974). D: Laurence Harvey

Harvey's final film has him as a Korean War Vet who comes back as a cannibal to Southern California. Meg Foster is a hippie drifter who discovers his secret and tries to convince the unbelieving authorities. This isn't the best cannibalism film ever, but some unusual camera work and good acting makes this film worth the search to find.

Review by Jason Hose

WEREWOLF IN A GIRL'S DORMITORY (1963). D: Richard Benson (Paolo Heusch)

Amazing exploitative title, but underneath there is a very typical Italian 60's horror movie (although it's actually Italian/Austrian). Unhappily it does not succeed very well to give you thrills, chills or even laughs. Few murders made by the werewolf-turned-superintendent won't give you reason to spend fortunes for this black & white film.

WES CRAVEN'S NEW NIGHTMARE. (1994). D: Guess!

Starring: Craven , Englund, Langencamp; all playing themselves. All the NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET films were just movies, but THIS time it's for real! A horror movie about horror movies, not unlike SCREAM. Somebody should have given Craven some more money for the ending, though...

review by Thomas Herlofsen

WHEELS OF TERROR. (1990). D: Christopher Cain

OK thriller with the evil car hunting girls of little town. Reminds me Spielberg's great Duel, this one is one of the best made-for-cable thrillers ever.

WHISPERS. (1989). D: Douglas Jackson

Adaptation of Dean R. Koontz novel just don't have anything, why you should bother. Read the book instead.

WHITE ZOMBIE. (1932). D: Victor Halperin

Good black&white, atmospheric horror with Bela Lugosi as the voodoo priest who likes to practise zombie-making. Lugosi later thought he could hypnotize in real life, like he did in this film.

WICKED CITY. (1989). D: Yoshiaki Kanajiri

Best anime I've ever seen. Superb story where a 500-year contract between demons and humans is about to reach its end. An old perverted man is called up to make a new deal with the demons. Like director's Ninja Scroll, we are allowed to see violence, action, sex and supernatural events. And of course fighting of demons and humans.

WICKER MAN. (1973). D: Robin Hardy

My all-time favorite horror actor Christopher Lee is Lord Summerisk, of the Summerisle Island. Edward Woodward plays a cop who comes to investigate the case of a missing girl, and gets into nightmare when he realizes the people's peculiar way of living. Best of Lee's films and is also one of the best horror movies ever - if even is horror. A great, sinister, and atmospheric must for everyone.

WILD, WILD PLANET. (1965). D: Anthony M. Dawson (Antonio Margheriti)

Hilarious science fiction "thriller" set in the future, where a female alien shrinks Earth's scientists for her experiments... Special FX is something to be seen, and just look at those clothes, costumes and the hideous dance number with man wearing a "fly"-outfit!

WITCHBOARD 2: THE DEVIL'S DOORWAY. (1993). D: Kevin S. Tenney

Haven't seen the first one, but after this I don't know if I even want to. Girl artist buys a loft apartment and finds an ouija board. After playing with it, murder victim's spirit starts to haunt her. Not even a good laugh.

WITHIN THE ROCK. (1996). D: Gary J. Tunnicliffe

Ultimately dull and stupid Alien-clone. Only point of this made-for-cable (I suppose) sci-fi thriller is just to show the drilling of moonrock(!). No action, no thrills, no chills. Just a useless crap.

WITHOUT WARNING. (1980). D: Greydon Clark

Great, entertaining B-horror deals with slimy frisbee-like monsters from outer space. It has also great B-actors like Jack Palance, Martin Landau and Cameron Mitchell. Want to see more like this - low-budget vehicles that are interesting and fun to watch. B-movies don't have to be dull.

WOLFEN. (1981). D: Michael Wadleigh

OK, not a must almost-werewolf flick from the director of Woodstock-movie. Thrilling scenes with good camerawork and well-acted by Albert Finney, Gregory Hines and Edward James Olmos.

WOMEN IN FURY. (1984). D: Michele Massimo Tarantini

OK example of Women-In-Prison subgenre. All the cliches are here: a lesbian warden, escape, violence, nudity... If you're a fan of this genre, you could choose much worse. Allegedly based on true story.

WRAITH. (1986). D: Mike Marvin

Ultimately stupid (but also sometimes campy and fun to watch) story of a ghost, who has to fight against the nasty criminal gang. Starring Charlie (nowadays Charles) Sheen, Sherilyn Fenn and Randy Quaid.

XX : BEAUTIFUL VICTIM. (1995). D: Naosuke Kurosawa

Second entry of XX-series that tell stories of powerful women and contain a lot of kinky S&M sex, misogynist villains, violence and bleak view of the world. Serial killer is on the loose and he kills women who live the double-life and he lefts messages inside the condoms that have been forced deep into victims' throats. Definitely not for the average viewer, but those who are familiar with Japanese extremities should pay attention to this definitely well-made and interesting thriller. Yoko Natsuki plays the female lead as tough doctor.

ZED & TWO NOUGHTS. (1985). D: Peter Greenaway

Art stuff from bizarre director Greenaway that's too weird for my taste. Not a light entertainment. Visually great.

ZERO BOYS. (1986). D: Nico Mastorakis

When celebrating survival game team decide to spend the night in house at the middle of the forest, they must use every trick to survive from mad killer. Would've been OK bad-acted & cliché-packed horror flick, but suffers from too long running time.

ZOMBIE FLESH-EATERS. (1980). D: Lucio Fulci

Fulci's splatterfest is located to Bahamas, where crazy doctor does his experiments and leads zombiearmy. Like always in Fulci's films, the ultimate graphic violence and splatter is the only thing that stops you from pressing "STOP"-button of your VCR. This one also contains great eye-piercing scene, that'll make you scream.