By Nia Edwards-Behi I feel like my end of year list this year’s going to be a little bit of a weird mix. Finishing off my PhD (and working full time and doing that whole film festival thing) has somewhat limited my ability to watch many films this year. If there are some cracking films […]
Review by Ben Bussey Whilst it may be a dish best served cold, revenge has been pretty damned hot in indie filmmaking in recent years. Pretty much any neo-grindhouse movie to have come along since Rodriguez and Tarantino set that particular ball rolling has featured at least one lone survivor with a serious score to […]
By Keri O’Shea It’s become customary, as we approach the end of a year, to complain about the dearth of good cinema in said year. It’s almost a new Christmas tradition for film writers. There were no classics; there were too many lazy efforts; why do we still have to contend with all these remakes? […]
Review by Matt Harries ‘Art House horror’. I don’t know about you but that term immediately causes an arterial explosion of words to issue forth from my mental recesses. ‘Bloody’, ‘visceral’, ‘warped’, ‘unconventional’, ‘non-linear’…’Lynchian’ of course. There are conventions even within the language of the unconventional. Reference points which we check off, co-ordinates we follow, […]
Review by Svetlana Fedotov With the tagline ‘horror comics like a motherfucker’ and an avatar of a dinosaur with a metal jaw, the indie comic company Attackosaur may come off as another small fish in a big pond, but what it lacks in size, it makes up in quality. Boasting a small collection of single […]
Review by Quin The further I get from my rebellious teenage years (which, truth be told, weren’t very rebellious at all), the less tolerance I have for the fictionalization of young rebellion on screen. The old man in me is getting stronger every day and he wants to yell out to these kids in all […]
Review by Nia Edwards-Behi I have a soft spot for horror musicals. This may have somewhat coloured my immense enjoyment of Stage Fright, a film about which I hadn’t heard great things. This might be partially because it’s very musical-y. This isn’t a goth opera like Repo! The Genetic Opera, or a rockabilly B-movie homage […]
Review by Quin Imagine Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind as directed by Ken Russell. I think it’s pretty safe to say that would be a puzzling yet effectively strange film filled with startling visuals and powerful symbolism. In what I find to be the most surprising film I’ve seen this year, Mr. Jones takes […]
By Keri O’Shea That director and purveyor of horror and sleaze, Joe D’Amato was born on this day in 1936, and had he not died so suddenly back in 1999, would have been near to eighty years of age at this point in time. And yet, somehow, something tells me he’d still have been making […]
Review by Tristan Bishop Whenever I’m set to review a new film I try to avoid as much info as possible about it before viewing in order that I’m not swayed by anyone else’s opinion, or by my own presumptions. Whilst this is undoubtedly useful for giving as unbiased an opinion as possible, it can […]
Review by Ben Bussey In opening, a note on title changes. Though the DVD artwork bears the title Ragnarok: The Viking Apocalypse, this film was released in its native Norway as Gåten Ragnarok (which I gather essentially translates as The Riddle of Ragnarok), and in the opening titles it is dubbed simply Ragnarok. It’s of […]