Howdy ladies and gents,
I've got a request to find a film that's been bugging me for years. Having started a PhD focusing on horror movies/video nasties I would have thought I would have, at some point, come across it again but so far no dice.
When I was young - although my parents refused to let me watch 15/18 rated movies before that age - I caught a sneak peak of a pretty gruesome horror, somewhere around 1985ish (at a guess, could have been slightly later). So would assume it to be a video nasty - although I know the banned list fairly comprehensively for around the late 70's/early-80s and nothing rings a bell.
I thought it was Terror Train at first but now not so sure. I remember two scenes very clearly. One is where a woman is sleeping in bed and someone drips liquid through a tube via the ventilation system above her. From here I think crickets/locusts eat her face! Yes it's pretty grim as I remember.
The other scene is men dressed as the Queen's guards marching with white eyes - I think they are on a railway carriage, hence my Terror Train guess. It's definitely not this though as the IMDB Parent's guide doesn't mention anything like the face eating scene.
This is obviously the most vague description ever, but thought someone might be able to help me out - as it's been bugging me for the best part of thirty years! The liquid-dripping/flesh eating is obviously the scene I remember most vividly (and has since probably scarred me, and potentially why I suffered insomnia for a time
), so if anyone could identify this or take a stab at it (pardon the horror related pun) then that'd satisfy my curiosity.
Cheers.
I've got a request to find a film that's been bugging me for years. Having started a PhD focusing on horror movies/video nasties I would have thought I would have, at some point, come across it again but so far no dice.
When I was young - although my parents refused to let me watch 15/18 rated movies before that age - I caught a sneak peak of a pretty gruesome horror, somewhere around 1985ish (at a guess, could have been slightly later). So would assume it to be a video nasty - although I know the banned list fairly comprehensively for around the late 70's/early-80s and nothing rings a bell.
I thought it was Terror Train at first but now not so sure. I remember two scenes very clearly. One is where a woman is sleeping in bed and someone drips liquid through a tube via the ventilation system above her. From here I think crickets/locusts eat her face! Yes it's pretty grim as I remember.
The other scene is men dressed as the Queen's guards marching with white eyes - I think they are on a railway carriage, hence my Terror Train guess. It's definitely not this though as the IMDB Parent's guide doesn't mention anything like the face eating scene.
This is obviously the most vague description ever, but thought someone might be able to help me out - as it's been bugging me for the best part of thirty years! The liquid-dripping/flesh eating is obviously the scene I remember most vividly (and has since probably scarred me, and potentially why I suffered insomnia for a time
), so if anyone could identify this or take a stab at it (pardon the horror related pun) then that'd satisfy my curiosity.Cheers.
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