By Keri O’Shea The ‘neo-giallo’ has become something of a hot filming style in recent years, and although not yet numbering as many films as the faux grindhouse trend has given us, a fair few young directors have tried to turn their hand to the heavily-stylised, aesthetically-minded ultraviolence of the giallo – with a range […]
By Keri O’Shea The idea of a presence – something powerful and knowing hidden in the darkness of the woods – is undoubtedly hardwired into us on a primal level; for thousands upon thousands upon years before human culture spawned the horror genre, it was an instinctual fear which allowed our DNA to survive, and […]
By Stephanie Scaife From Taika Waititi (Eagle vs Shark, Boy) and Jemaine Clement (Flight of the Conchords) comes this delightfully absurd mockumentary about a group of vampires sharing a flat in Wellington. It’s explained to us at the beginning by Viago (Waititi) an 18th century dandy, that even though some vampires like to live in […]
By Ben Bussey I thought I might be pleased to see Marcus Nispel take on an original horror movie. As much as I despised his rehashes of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Friday the 13th for Platinum Dunes, there was still clearly some visual flair and affection for the genre on show there, mishandled as […]
By Svetlana Fedotov For anyone who has ever read a comic in the past sixty years, the name Archie is synonymous with goofy teenage antics, love triangles, and cheesy quips that were never-really-that-funny-now-that-I-think-about-it. And, like any work that’s been around for as long as the graphic word itself, Archie and Co. have crossed paths with […]
By Keri O’Shea When we were approached by Michael Matteo Rossi, the director of Misogynist, he introduced the film by saying that it’s been getting a lot of attention “as the indie antidote to the Fifty Shades craze”; now, I haven’t seen Fifty Shades of Grey, but neither have I been living in a bubble […]
By Ben Bussey I rather doubt anyone needs to be reminded of this fact right now, but the anthology horror movie is well and truly back. From Amicus to Creepshow to Trick ‘R Treat, the portmanteau format has been utilised to craft some of the most enjoyable horror movies of decades gone by, and in […]
By Matt Harries I must admit it was one of those times when even the most fleeting of glimpses proved enough to whet my appetite. A while back my eyes skimmed over the description of The Samurai in these very pages, which at the time was causing a stir on the festival circuit. A horror […]
By Quin Nazi horror really isn’t my thing. I’ve seen very little of it, and what I have seen does nothing for me. But, when it comes to reviewing horror films, I’m always up for a challenge. I am now very happy to report that I enjoyed Backtrack: Nazi Regression quite a bit. It grabbed […]
By Keri O’Shea Look, I was going to try to play coy on the source of the horror in this film, but seeing as ‘Night of the Wolf’ has been added to the title (sigh), and that to avoid any residual ambiguity there’s a massive savage wolf on the cover art, there’s little point really. […]
By Tristan Bishop 31 years after the Video Recordings Act came in to being in the UK, horror fans are still hungry for the films which made up the ‘Video Nasties’ list – Let’s not forget that the vast majority of these films never had a theatrical release in the UK, and a lot of […]