By Keri O’Shea I think I speak for all of us on that thing where you’re casually scrolling through social media, and then all of a sudden, something hits you hard. There have been many examples, but today’s is definitely finding out that one of the all-time most important horror directors has shuffled off the […]
By Ben Bussey While I don’t want to suggest that my own personal horror movie knowledge and experience is representative of everyone (perish the thought), The Town That Dreaded Sundown is one of those films I’ve long been aware of but never actually seen, and I get the impression that’s true of quite a lot […]
By Nia Edwards-Behi Where do you start on a film like Videodrome? It’s a definitive work of one of modern cinema’s most interesting auteurs, a body horror ur-text, an iconic and a quotable cult film classic; it’s one of those films that everybody’s seen. Well, I hadn’t. The images associated with Videodrome make it one […]
Review by Quin In the time that Blood Punch has played at various film festivals and theater screenings, the reaction has been overwhelmingly positive. Unfortunately, theater runs must come to an end and films then live on in digital format for personal viewing. It’s no big secret that the theater experience is usually way different […]
By Ben Bussey The zombie-war movie crossover may not be an entirely new idea, but in the vast majority of instances these tend to centre on Nazi zombies. In case that’s getting a bit old (panzer) hat, how does the idea of Napoleonic zombies grab you? That’s the key idea behind new British microbudget horror/wartime […]
By Keri O’Shea Much is made today of the phenomenon of ‘privilege’ – who has it, who does what with it, and just what should be done about it. People are advised to acknowledge their privilege, or check their privilege…people quibble about how much privilege they really have and what it all really means, and […]
Review by Quin So you’re tired of found footage horror movies, and that is totally understandable. It’s gotten to the point where the people making them must realize that they are totally unnecessary. Even making a parody of one seems moot. Maybe I’ve championed them long enough. I have always thought that it’s the perfect […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
By Keri O’Shea “Why is there a knife blade in the tip of your umbrella?” It’s fair to say that when the Japanese get hold of a youth subculture they like, they more than make it their own – and the ‘Gothic Lolita’ phenomenon is a good case in point. A pretty mash-up of I […]