November 11, 2014My favorite review site Bleeding Skull recently teamed up with Mondo to give the most obscure, shot on video, horror films the VHS release we've all been waiting for. To date they've released two: 'Cards of Death' and 'The Soultangler'. I haven't watched 'The Soultangler' yet, but it is on my shelf shouting obscenities and calling me to watch it. Soon, Soultangler, soon. In the meantime, 'Cards of Death'! First of all, go read the Bleeding Skull review here, then go buy the movie here, then come back! Ok, now that you've done that, let's talk about 'Cards of Death'... W.G. MacMillan ('The Crazies', 'The Enforcer') directed this bizarre film about a police captain who gets more than he bargained for when he stumbles blind into a depraved and insane nightclub featuring a poker game with tarot cards between men wearing rubber masks where the winner has to kill the losers. When the captain doesn't show up for work the next day, his detectives and his son go looking for him and eventually find their way to the bottom of the seedy chain that all leads to Hog, the man in charge of the criminal operation. With a blood-drenched synth score and a no-holds-barred approach to a violent underground gambling organization, 'Cards of Death' is a little slice of slasher heaven that all connoisseurs of the genre and SOV horror movie enthusiasts need to add to their collection immediately.
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