While the early eighties were marked by the dominance of Slasher movies, the late eighties ushered in a resurgence of vampire films.

Among the five Macabre Mallet movies released in this period, three would prominently feature vampires, while the remaining two still explored the realm of the undead.

As the decade neared its end, it marked the culmination of the second generation of Macabre Mallet leading ladies. Isabella Pembroke, Felicity Abernathy, and Simone Wellington all delivering their final performances for the studio, concluding their horror movie careers on a high note.

Nearly 30 years after the original Evil House movie the terror returns.

On the recommendation of an ex-footballer, Jill (Isabella Pembroke) buys a house at auction with dreams of renovating it. But this is no ordinary house and before she can consider knocking the wall down to create an en suite bedroom she must deal with the evil that lurks inside.

Macabre Mallet fans were joyed to see the return of Imogen Hartley who, at the age of 51, played “Really Old Neighbour”.

Stars Simone Wellington in her most celebrated performance as a vampire vigilante who only targets the greedy.

Notably, this is the only Macabre Mallet movie to get mentioned in Hansard when the Right Honourable member for Flimsee-On-The-Tweed, Sir Ralph Undercut complained it was “ant-capitalist propaganda”, asking “Who on earth would want to watch a half naked model suck the life out of the wealthy?”

It remains one of Macabre Mallets highest grossing movies.

A fan favourite amongst Macabre Mallet aficionados as it brings together all the leading ladies.

A virus suddenly turns 98% of the male population into braindead hungry zombies and this band of women must do all that they can to survive.

This movie also gained notoriety due to the Director, Pierre Martel-Bouchard’s decision to make an alternate version in which the zombies are killed by the women performing oral sex acts on them.

Anecdotally, this was done as a joke to ‘piss Mary Whitehouse off’. However, this version mistakenly got shown at the prestigious Sudbury Film Festival and it called quite the stir.

This movie also features the final Macabre Mallet performances of Simone Wellington and Felicity Abernathy.

It is wrongly believed that hell is below us, because, as it turns out, the gates of Hell is located on a small hill along the Sussex/Kent border.

For generations it has been protected by one family and it’s now the turn of Stella (Isabella Pembroke) to fulfil this legacy and stop what tries to come out.

The problem is… she really doesn’t want to do it .

Judith (Isabella Pembroke) runs an Alpaca Sanctuary in Cornwall and is somewhat surprised one day to find all the alpacas have died.

However, she is unable to dwell on this development for too long because she becomes even more surprised when all the alpacas rise from the dead.

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