DVD Review: Zombie Fight Club (2014)

By Ben Bussey When the first images and trailer from this slice of made-in-Taiwan horror first emerged, my kneejerk reaction was, zombies, martial arts punch-ups, hot Asian women – what could go wrong? This, alas, is one of those “I had to ask” moments. Turns out Zombie Fight Club gets a lot wrong. In fact, […]

Retro Book Review: The Bad Seed by William March

By Svetlana Fedotov The fifties were a weird time for horror. Alfred Hitchcock was the darling of the horror world with his psycho-sexual twists and anything not done by him came in the form of giant ants or giant blobs or giant tomatoes. With psychological crusades and atom bomb fears fed in nightly news bits […]

Asami August: Sukeban Boy (2006)

By Keri O’Shea Sometimes it’s completely unnecessary for a film to have a slow, believable build-up, let alone a believable set of circumstances, and for so many of Noboru Iguchi’s lunatic technicolour battle epics, it would frankly slow things down until they weren’t as entertaining. We know this, we love this, and it’s why we’re […]

Film Review – Dead Rising: Watchtower (2015)

By Tristan Bishop Dead Rising: Watchtower, for those of you not in the know, is a video game adaptation. The game series (3 main entries and numerous spin-offs) is basically a spin on Dawn Of The Dead, and has you attempting various missions in shopping malls which are infested with slow-moving but incredibly numerous zombies. […]

Comic Review: Wolf #1

By Svetlana Fedotov Well, here we are, another comic about a supernatural detective who’s seen too much and is SO over it. Of course, there’s a wildly vast array of characters with weird faces whom the populace may or may not see and uh, vampires? Yeah vampires. So of course, you’re asking, ‘Svetlana, why are […]

Asami August: Who The Heck’s Asami?

By Keri O’Shea Well, as my esteemed colleague Ben has already told you all, we plan on making August a huge celebration of the life of Asami Sugiura as she approaches her thirtieth birthday. But it also occurs to us that, out there, some of you may be completely uninitiated into the ways of one […]

DVD Review: Eat (2014)

By Tristan Bishop The film industry, like most creative industries, is notoriously tough to break into. For every A-list movie star at the top of their game, a pyramid made up of thousands of less fortunate souls lies beneath them – a few of them might be well-known character actors, and a few more those […]

Review: Dead Shadows (2012)

By Ben Bussey It can’t be a good sign when, halfway through watching a newly released French horror movie, you find yourself pondering what happened to the days when so much of the most exciting horror around was coming out of France. Really though, where did it all go wrong? French filmmakers were responsible for […]