By Keri O’Shea The rape/revenge motif has been a staple in exploitation cinema for decades, and judging by the indie output of the last ten years or so, it’s not going anywhere anytime soon, either. I Spit On Your Grave has been blue-filtered and re-calibrated – more than once – for a younger generation, the […]
By Nia Edwards-Behi I was offered Wolves for review because somehow my esteemed editor knew that a film aimed at teens about werewolves and starring Jason Momoa would be appealing to me. He was certainly correct, and so cheerily I took on the task, expecting a slightly blood-and-sexed-up version of Twilight: New Moon, only without […]
By Keri O’Shea The marriage of horror and comedy is not only nothing new, but it seems to have been a decidedly less tricky pairing, back when the gore was less protracted and graphic and the laughs depended less on shocks to make viewers laugh-out-loud. The distance between the two was shorter, see, but not […]
By Nia Edwards-Behi Oh, Danger 5. I have some serious feelings about Danger 5. After the dizzyingly entertaining first series in 2012, 2014…er, I mean, 2015 has brought us an excessively wonderful second series. If I thought the first series was batshit, series two has laughed in my face as it tries to escape from […]
By Quin Hungarian found footage? Sure, why the hell not. As some of you know by now, I’m quite often still suckered in to a wide array of found footage films. I take full responsibility for my taste, or lack thereof. But I can’t help it. I appreciate a finely crafted horror film with a […]
By Tristan Bishop Right, whisper it, but it looks like low budget horror producers may finally have realised that found footage puts off more people than it excites, and not before time, either. The gimmick that was once the go-to for the monetarily-challenged production has finally been sunk by the deluge of filmed sewage which […]
By Nia Edwards-Behi Back in 2010, I put on an event to mark the first Women in Horror Recognition Month, the painfully punny Ghouls on Film. I’ve always wanted to do another, but that scarce modern commodity of ‘time’ always seems just a little bit too far out of my grasp. I mean, I was […]
By Ben Bussey What with the likes of Willow Creek and Exists, Bigfoot horror seems to be quite the in thing of late, so it’s small wonder that other cryptozoological legends from around the world would start making their presence felt. And so, representing Australia’s Bigfoot equivalent the Yowie, we have Throwback, the tale of […]
By Tristan Bishop At the dawn of the 1980s John Carpenter was riding high on the success of Halloween, which had been released in 1978, and had, after many months and much word of mouth, become an enormous success, making upwards of $65,000,000 on a budget of just over $300,000. Nowadays of course the major […]
Review by Ben Bussey Okay, so we really shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, nor make our minds up about what looks like an absolutely appalling microbudget horror movie within the first 15 minutes – but sometimes you just know. Sometimes all the signs are there from the word go, and there can be […]
By Tristan Bishop Those of us who have been horror fans for a number of years tend to be immune to most attempted ‘scares’, mostly because we know the tropes all too well and can read the signposts to the next shock moment. So whilst the average viewer might be jumping out of their chair […]