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 […]
By Keri O’Shea Nekromantik must be one of the most often-discussed, yet least-seen pieces of shock cinema which ever came lurching out of the 80s – that is, seen in its entirety at least. Here in the UK you could get hold of it, as you could most things, but not in any legitimate form […]
Review by Quin There are so many things that I did not like about the horror anthology film Hi-8 that I stopped writing it all down. It was simply too much. From the minute long test pattern at the beginning complete with high pitched audio tone, I knew pretty quick this wasn’t going to be […]
Review by Quin A couple years ago, I saw a short film on Vimeo called Webcam. It was a pretty disjointed but to-the-point cautionary tale about the dangers of web cam takeovers. I don’t know any of the tech stuff that goes into such a thing, but apparently someone with the know-how can access the […]
By Svetlana Fedotov Werewolves are a pretty safe bet when it comes to whipping out a scary story. Like vampires and zombies, they already come with their own set of rules, mythology, and an image ready to be penned into the “enter-scary-creature” blank space on the horror tax form. In fact, I probably wouldn’t even […]
Review by Tristan Bishop If there’s one thing we Brits excel at, it’s a good ghost story. From MR James (arguably the master of the form) to the 1945 Ealing studios spooky portmanteau tale Dead Of Night, to the blockbusting Woman In Black, we’ve got the restless dead covered. The reasons for this are debatable, […]
Review by Quin I have always believed that it’s not always the way the movie ends that matters, it’s how you get there. While it’s true that many a bad ending have ruined films for me in the past, it isn’t always the case. Of course it’s ideal that the viewer be left in the […]