Girls, Guns and Ghouls https://girls-guns-and-ghouls.com/ Reviews of cult, horror, drive-in, psychotronic, grindhouse and exploitation films, by Boris Lugosi. en-au Thu, 12 Nov 2026 00:48:09 +0000 Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989) https://girls-guns-and-ghouls.com/tetsuo https://girls-guns-and-ghouls.com/tetsuo Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989)

Sometimes when you sit down to watch a film, you just want to be caressed with lovely music, pleasant scenery, good-looking actors and calming dialogue. Other times you want to be pulverised with an iron hammer.

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]]> At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul (1964) https://girls-guns-and-ghouls.com/atmidnight https://girls-guns-and-ghouls.com/atmidnight At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul (1964)

This is my first foray into the twisted world of "Coffin Joe", A.K.A Zé do Caixão, the bizarre creation of Brazilian auteur José Mojica Marins. What a debut film for this unique director-writer-actor! I suppose you could shoe-horn this film into the horror genre but there aren't many other ghoul-fests like it.

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]]> Harold and Maude (1971) https://girls-guns-and-ghouls.com/haroldandmaude https://girls-guns-and-ghouls.com/haroldandmaude Harold and Maude (1971)

Long a gap in my viewing experience, director Hal Ashby's black comedy Harold and Maude was a very pleasant surprise. Part of my cinematic to-do list is viewing the films detailed in Danny Peary's Cult Movies books. Absolute reading gems by the way, dear reader, and highly recommended.

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]]> Fiend (1980) https://girls-guns-and-ghouls.com/fiend https://girls-guns-and-ghouls.com/fiend Fiend (1980)

“Certain legends have mentioned the Fiend, a hellish, destructive force capable of entering time-worn coffins and invading a decaying corpse, allowing the dead to walk the earth again. The fiendish corpse maintains its youth and existence by withdrawing the life-giving energy from human victims, who suffer violent and painful death…”

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]]> Satan's Black Wedding (1976) https://girls-guns-and-ghouls.com/satansblackwedding https://girls-guns-and-ghouls.com/satansblackwedding Satan's Black Wedding (1976)

Sometimes a film can have virtually no obvious redeeming qualities, but there's just something to love about it, nonetheless. Director Nick Millard's Satan's Black Wedding falls squarely into this category for me. What's to love about a zero-budget vampire film from the seventies running barely more than an hour?

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]]> Xtro (1983) https://girls-guns-and-ghouls.com/xtro https://girls-guns-and-ghouls.com/xtro Xtro (1983)

This film is quite the little oddity from England. I don't usually have British E.T. gone rogue movies on my bingo card, but Xtro was a pleasant surprise with quite an explosion of imagination on display.

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]]> Mad Doctor of Blood Island (1969) https://girls-guns-and-ghouls.com/maddoctor https://girls-guns-and-ghouls.com/maddoctor Mad Doctor of Blood Island (1969)

I've always enjoyed a good Filipino horror / science fiction / action film. Mad Doctor of Blood Island fits the bill in almost every respect. You've got smatterings of gore, nudity, violence and action for your viewing pleasure, and the directors make sure they leave it all on the table.

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