By Nia Edwards-Behi The recent resurgence in anthology horror films seems to have slowed down this past year or so. However, with Tales of Halloween, the subgenre’s given a bit of a shot in the arm, taking on a different format to other anthologies which string together a series of shorts with only a very […]
By Tristan Bishop I think it’s fair to say that Crimson Peak is one of the most eagerly awaited horror films this year – Guillermo Del Toro’s first venture into darker territory since 2006’s Pan’s Labyrinth was bound to get people excited. Those of us who were left dismayed by the cancellation of his HP […]
By Ben Bussey Getting a bunch of pretty young people, dropping them in a single location and killing them off one by one has long been the standard for low-budget horror. Should you so happen to make that single location somewhere interesting and unusual, and make the deaths similarly distinctive, then you just might be […]
By Dustin Hall I’m a fan of Jacob Gentry’s weird and wonderful film The Signal, one of my favorite random finds from a closing Blockbuster video, so when I found a chance to check out his new work, the unfortunately named Synchronicity (unfortunate in that there are nine other titles on IMDB with the same […]
By Tristan Bishop The Slashening cost $6,000 to make. It’s a horror comedy ‘tribute to Halloween, Black Christmas and Slumber Party Massacre’. It’s distributed by Troma. It’s called The Slashening. The signs aren’t great, really, are they? I may have said it before, but I don’t enjoy writing damning reviews of low budget films that […]
By Nia Edwards-Behi I’ve briefly raved about Hellions before on this site, in my preview of FrightFest 2015. Well, now the film’s set to hit home-viewing, just in time for Halloween, and I’m really looking forward to many people picking it up and seeing it for themselves, because more than anything, it’s a film that […]
I’d almost forgotten about Alejandro Amenábar. Having come to prominence with 1997’s Abre Los Ojos AKA Open Your Eyes, a psychological drama with a bizarre sci-fi twist (which later spawned an inferior remake in the Tom Cruise/Cameron Crowe movie Vanilla Sky), the Spanish director really broke big with 2001’s The Others. Ghost stories with an […]
By Keri O’Shea So here’s the thing: I was all set to start this review by saying I’d volunteered to review Insidious 3 on a bit of a whim, as I hadn’t seen the second Insidious and wasn’t sure how the films would relate either to each other, or to the first one. Well, Ben […]
By Nia Edwards-Behi There’s quite a wave of a horror filmmaking that seems to be happening in South America at the moment. Festival initiatives such as Blood Window are bringing more and more of these films to the fore. Children of the Night (formerly ‘Limbo’) is an example of this wave, coming from Argentinian director […]
By Ben Bussey We all know very well how frustrating it is to see new movies endlessly recycling the same basic concepts with little to no variety. However, there’s a particularly potent brand of frustration that emerges when a new movie comes along with a comparatively fresh and inventive premise, but then fails to fully […]
By Tristan Bishop Aren’t we all a bit sick of new films looking like old films yet? The likes of Hobo With A Shotgun, Death Proof & Machete all tapped into a nostalgia for the gritty 70s & 80s heyday of politically-incorrect exploitation, at once a compliment and an alternative to the never-ending stream of […]