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”
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Don’t Open Till Christmas
There are just too many Santa slashers. So Don’t Open Till Christmas, which turns the tables by making the fat man in felt the victim rather than the perp, is a welcome change. This fraught British production was long in the making and it’s evident in the finished product. But it’s a wild one. TwoContinue reading “Don’t Open Till Christmas”