Since The Last Lovecraft: The Relic of Cthulhu just made its Slamdance Festival debut, I thought it would be proper to dedicate this Video Vault to a few noteworthy Lovecraftian horror flicks.
Caltiki – The Immortal Monster, 1959
One of the earliest Lovecraftian horror efforts, directed by Riccardo Freda, with a then unknown Mario Bava (credited as John Foam) doing cinematography. Freda claimed that Bava did most of the directing uncredited. In Caltiki, archaeologists encounter a blob-like monster while exploring Mayan ruins. The team attempts to connect the monster with a comet that passed near earth at the time the Mayan civilization …read more

I’m donning a little plaid today (exactly where you’re imagining) and in honor of schoolgirls everywhere I present to you the Schoolgirl Edition of Video Vault . Today’s lesson consists of a few clips from the German sleaze-fest known as Schulmadchen Report (Schoolgirl Report), as well as a few Asian schoolgirl horror trailers.
During the 70’s Walter Boos, Wolf C. Hartwig and Ludwig Spitaler got together to create thirteen, super horny original films which were adapted from a book series written by Gunther Hunold. These vignettes covered themes including: interracial love affairs, male and female masturbation sequences, forced prostitution, rape, voyeurism, …read more

CBS’s How to Survive a Horror Movie was an 18-episode, 1950’s style training video series that poked fun at some of the common cliches in horror movies, as well as a few movies themselves. The 2007 webisodes were written and co-directed by Seth Grahame-Smith who wrote the book of the same name. You probably know him better for his zombie opus, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies which is currently being raped by the likes of Natalie Portman in the upcoming feature film.
Some of the episodes don’t really push the envelope, but there are a few that are clever. Check out …read more

An impaled lovely from Evil Dead Trap–a classic Japanese slasher; Friday the 13th Part II and Twitch of the Death Nerve get impaled in more ways than one; When a Killer Calls gets it in the mouth; Return to Sleepaway Camp is the fricken pisser and pops some major wood; Everyone needs a hammer-mallet-thingy as big as that guy in Blood of the Vampire.

RIP Dan O’Bannon September 30, 1946 – December 17, 2009

On the first day of Christmas David Cronenberg gave to me
a hunk of new flesh in a TV
On the second day of Christmas David Cronenberg gave to me
two psychosexual twin Doctors
and a hunk of new flesh in a TV
On the third day of Christmas David Cronenberg gave to me
three gooey Brundleflies
two psychosexual twin Doctors
and a hunk of new flesh in a TV

On the fourth day of Christmas David Cronenberg gave to me
four sexytime parasites
three gooey Brundleflies
two psychosexual twin Doctors
and a hunk of new flesh in a TV
On the fifth day of Christmas David Cronenberg gave to me
five rabid porn stars
four sexytime parasites
three gooey Brundleflies
two psychosexual twin …read more

Slumber party make out session in Jennifer’s Body; Vicki makes out with her dad in Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II; Yutte Stensgaard goes a little cross-eyed because of the bizarro music from ‘Traci’ in Lust for a Vampire; The Hunger–more famous for its sexy time scene with Catherine Deneuve and Susan Sarandon but I had to show David Bowie some love + killer ankhs; Candyman gives Virginia Madsen a permanent trout pout; Freddy hearts Nancy 4 eva.

In this Video Vault edition, get hungry for brains, hula hoops and Pez; A Spaghetti Western and Giallo cast is featured in an Italian Sleaze favorite; Singer Siouxsie Sioux loves Godzilla; Claymation slasher dance party and a commercial about Thai ghosts.

I’m dedicating this Video Vault edition to the great actor, Boris Karloff. I’m participating in the Boris Karloff Blogathon that Pierre at Frankensteinia has organized. It runs until Sunday, November 29 so please check out the other great write ups that horror bloggers have contributed to this fun event.
I present for your viewing pleasure Karloff’s Ronson Comet torture techniques, a reimagining of Karloff’s performance singing the Monster Mash on ABC’s Shindig!, a scene with Bela Lugosi and Peter Lorre and a three part This is Your Life interview.
Image: Frankensteinia

Welcome to another edition of the Video Vault. Enjoy. Rinse. Repeat.