The festival – with all those sounds, colors and emotions – is a very intense experience. If you feel overwhelmed, you can always take some rest – in the company of zombies, deviants, monsters from outer space and revenant embryos. VHS Hell is opening its little store of horrors again!
As usual, in the VHS Hell zone you will see a collection of trashy treasures – clips, TV commercials, grindhouse movie trailers and other oddities – as well as three masterpieces of world cinema: “Hard Rock Zombies,” “Creepozoids” and ”The Suckling.”
Hard Rock Zombies, dir. Krishna Shah, 1984
“Hard Rock Zombies” tells the story of a hard rock band that ends up in a town whose residents hate such sounds. The musicians mysteriously die on stage, electrocuted, only to return to earth as the titular zombies! Only in this form do they begin to discover the true face of the town and the Nazis hiding there, headed by Hitler himself, sexual deviants and murderous dwarfs.
Creepozoids, dir. David DeCoteau, 1987
“Mom, can we have an alien at home?”. “But we already have an alien at home”. Instead of H.R. Giger concepts designed with extreme precision, we got ugly warehouses, and instead of a terrifying monstrosity – a guy in a rubber costume bought on AliExpress. “Creepozoids” is an ultimate display of brazenness and comic plagiarism, and seasoned director David DeCoteau provides viewers with all the thrills we expect from a VHS obscurity. Is there blood and guts? They are. The monster is there? Well, there is. Unjustified nudity? Of course. What else is needed in cinema, after all.
The Suckling, dir. Francis Teri, 1990
As a result of an abortion performed in an illegal clinic located in a brothel, the embryo ends up in the sewage system. It mutates as a result of contact with radioactive waste, and when it gains sufficient size, it begins a bloody vendetta. “The Suckling” makes up for its low budget with unbridled staging ingenuity. In no other film will you see a scene in which a fetus smashes an aborter’s head against a toilet bowl!
You have been warned!