Colorful, bloody, campy and sometimes self-aware, That’s a Wrap is a vibrant slasher entry that pays homage to giallo style. Director Marcel Walz finds, perhaps, his most successful horror feature yet among his many offerings, with the help of writers Joe Knetter and Robert L. Lucas. The tale finds us at a film’s wrap party […]
I’ve always believed that places could be poisoned by the evil that occurred there: shuttered asylums, abandoned prisons, empty battlefields. I wonder now if the same rage and evil can be compelled into an object, as we see in this slasher thriller Bad Girl Boogey. 18-year old Australian director Alice Maio Mackay (with co-writing for […]
With on-screen text which tells us that events in the film genuinely took place in Brisbane, Australia in 1997, Bliss of Evil avowedly sets itself up as something other than the more typical supernatural set-up we often get when music – particularly rock music – is concerned. And indeed, the opening scene is very grisly, […]
Review: Chris Ward Just when you thought there couldn’t be any more early ‘80s slasher movies for Arrow Video to exhume and give their customary polish to, they bring another lesser-known title to the party, this one being 1982’s Deadly Games. A fairly generic title that doesn’t give much away, Deadly Games is a slightly […]
By the time Stagefright emerged in 1987, the Italian exploitation film scene that had managed to outlast most of its European counterparts was on its last legs. Within a few years, the slew of horror, action and sex films that had been churned out since the 1960s was reduced to a trickle, and then more or less […]
By guest contributor Chris Ward Every so often a movie breaks through the barriers of genre, dares you to question what you think you know and threatens to make you think differently about horror movies and how they can challenge and defy social norms. Road Head (2020) isn’t that movie, mainly because at its core […]
Note: this feature contains spoilers! In a small US theatre, the cast of avant-garde performance The Night Owl are readying themselves for their big opening night. In true Stanislavsky style, the director wants everyone locked in, so that they can really get into their roles. This is a health and safety disaster waiting to happen […]