Really Awful Movies

Revisiting Meatcleaver Massacre

Meatcleaver Massacre features an Egyptologist, but Celtic, rather than Egyptian lore, and top billing for one minute of Christopher Lee, who thought he was going to be in a different film and nearly sued as a result. And most tellingly, absolutely, positively, no meat cleavers! Meatcleaver Massacre is another one of those wonky, idiosyncratic 70sContinue reading “Revisiting Meatcleaver Massacre”

Stage Fright

Stage Fright brings Antonin Artaud’s idea of the theatre of cruelty to life and offers up a terrific double entendre for a title to boot. A messianic director, Peter, decides to incorporate the story of an escaped serial killer, into his latest stage production, this as his players begin to go missing – in oneContinue reading “Stage Fright”