By Ben Bussey Back in March 2014 I saw a movie called The Invoking. It was a no-budget production from a young cast and crew, following a bunch of friends heading out to a remote, hitherto unknown location, where, following a liberal side order of personal drama, something vaguely spooky occurs. It bored the living […]
By Quin I have to admit that I had to look up the definition to the word “culling” and found that it meant “a selection from a large quantity; reducing the population of a wild animal (specifically an inferior or surplus animal) by selective slaughter.” In the final minutes of the film, the word is […]
By Jamie Brownlie To quote Operation Ivy, “Here we go again.” Six friends on vacation in Lithuania meet the exotic Luta at a party. Two of them decide to follow her back to the tattoo parlor where she works to get work from The Artist, the master tattooist. Torture ensues and it all caps off […]
By Tristan Bishop Freshness is a rare thing for us horror fans. The very nature of genre is repetition, after all – and so over the past hundred years of horror films, the same situations, characters, locations, set-ups and pay-offs appear again and again. A lot of films actively homage past pinnacles of the genre, […]
Review by Nia Edwards-Behi Crawl or Die has got one of those posters that immediately makes me roll my eyes. Girl, in her skivvies, dodgy Photoshop. That eye-roll reaches critical when I remember that this film used to be called Crawl Bitch Crawl, an even more terrible title now that I’ve seen the film. But, […]
By Svetlana Fedotov Comic anthologies are hard to pull off. There’s always someone that doesn’t pick up the slack in one of the stories, whether it’s the crap art or dull dialogue, and that one anchor can weigh down the entire ship. Luckily for The Island, while perhaps a mixed bag of story quality, it […]
By Keri O’Shea Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ll have picked up on the great excitement online regarding the upcoming addition to the Batman series of movies, Suicide Squad. The makers of Suicide Squad aren’t stupid, and they know that a glimpse here or a peek there will do most of their advertising […]
By Keri O’Shea That lesser-known member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Simeon Solomon, caused quite a stir when he exhibited his painting, entitled Habet! at the Royal Academy in 1865. Up until that point, he had been known for his religious tableaux and his sleepy, rather sexually ambiguous groups of figures – reclining lovers, figures […]
By Ben Bussey The latest from US no-budget indie horror filmmaker Dustin Wayde Mills is based around a simple but potent “what if” question. Our protagonist is an anonymous serial killer played by Reagan Root, who in the opening scene emotionlessly puts a gun to her head and ends her own life. The big “what if,” […]
By Keri O’Shea Well, here’s the thing: although she seems to spend the majority of her time being trailed by the paparazzi while she does mundane things like walking and shopping, apparently Katie Holmes (yes, her) is an actress. Who knew? Well, you probably all knew, and yeah, okay, I knew too – but (whispers) […]
By Keri O’Shea The zombie, one of our most well-worn movie monsters, shows no sign of letting up, and even though zombies have made it into the mainstream, they remain a temptation to indie filmmakers keen to exploit the relatively easy-to-create hordes that bring the horror. All the same, I really wouldn’t want to make […]