[Demdike@Cult Labs]

The House of Witchcraft (1989)

Following a nervous breakdown a man is moved into an out of the way villa in the Italian countryside by his wife. However he soon becomes plagued by nightmares that the house is the home of a witch and then a ton of weird shit happens.

The last book i read The House of Last Resort by Christopher Golden was like a prose version of the complete Houses of Doom series from Italian greats Lucio Fulci and Umberto Lenzi who directed this film.

It's chilling and genuinely bizarre - for a start a blind Paul Muller goes round with a great big German Shepherd dog... you know that ain't gonna' end well for a start - whilst the witch sequences remain rather creepy in a murderous old hag with a hatchet kind of way.

Logic may well go out the window and this isn't prime Lenzi by any means but it's still an enjoyably oddball watch.

Evil Breed: The Legend of Samhain (2003)

If you can somehow ignore the often pitiful acting then there's a fair bit of fun to be had with this low budget piece of nastiness. Although it attempts to educate in the traditions of Halloween / Samhain it certainly is no Trick r' Treat (2007) as it deals with ancient Celtic legends and the cannibalistic Sawney Bean clan. Kinda strange as they were Scottish but this is set in Ireland, although i suspect nobody ever really left backwoods USA.

Gory highlights include a guy having his intestines ripped out via his arse, a large breasted porn star (Known as the breeder) shackled to a cave wall naked with an aborted fetus dangling from between her thighs, and Jenna Jameson - bound to a stone slab as a cannibal guts her and attempts to chow down on one of her silicon breast implants.

There's not a chance in hell i can pretend this is a good film but it has become a regular Halloween / October staple with me. Lore and gore = Always fun.