Review by Ben Bussey Whaddya know, another mid-80s title reborn in HD courtesy of 88 Films, and (not unlike The Toxic Avenger before it) it’s another of those kind of ‘where it all began’ movies. An early directorial effort from now-legendary low budget schlockmaster Charles Band, it spawned five sequels in the following two decades, […]
Review by Nia Edwards-Behi What’s left to say about The Texas Chain Saw Massacre that hasn’t already been said? The film is one of those behemoths that looms over the rest of the horror genre, a classic hailing from that dangerous frontier of American horror filmmaking in the 1970s, and its impact and intensity have […]
By Keri O’Shea The literary works of HP Lovecraft have long been a source of temptation for horror filmmakers keen to take on the challenge of rendering visible all of those unspeakable, unknowable and unnameable terrors. It’s something of an irony, given that Lovecraft himself wasn’t keen on the silver screen as a medium, and […]
By Keri O’Shea In horror, certain things seem to go together very nicely, and anyone with even a passing interest in the genre could work out that you Don’t Go Into The Woods if you know what’s good for you; as certainly as you’d lose all of your marbles once a mere half an hour […]
Review by Ben Bussey There’s a joke about this being a ‘cult’ movie in here somewhere, but try as I might I can’t seem to pin it down. You see, not only is the debut feature of writer-director Riley Stearns a film likely to attract a cult following, but it also deals with the subject […]
By Svetlana Fedotov Did you know that 9/11 was caused by the US government as a reason to enter Iraq? Or that Bill Clinton would assassinate anyone who opposed him with a body count of up to sixty mysterious deaths? Oh, and I’m sure you heard that the moon landing was completely faked and that […]
Review by Quin I think it’s probably occurred to at least some of you that eventually every movie might be remade. When these remakes inevitably come around, I think it’s good to go in with an open mind. It is indeed a fact that the existence of an alternate version of your beloved favorites will […]
Review by Ben Bussey So- how does one go about making a sequel to a film as knowingly absurd and excessive as Troma’s original Toxic Avenger? With some difficulty, it would seem. As much as Troma’s output is designed to be more or less critic proof – that old ‘so bad it’s good’ thing – […]
By Svetlana Fedotov It’s been a long time since we’ve seen Hellboy and the BPRD cross paths. While yet to be reunited, we can at least get a peek at where it all started with launch of Hellboy and BPRD 1952. Before Abe Sapien, before Liz the Fire Starter, and even before Johann Kraus found […]
By Karolina Gruschka Every generation “embraces the vampire it needs, and gets the one it deserves.” As US scholar Nina Auerbach points out in the quote above, vampires often reflect certain aspects of culture and current society. This means the image of the vampire is an ever shifting one that adapts to the requirements of […]
By Ben Bussey What are you afraid of? It’s a simple enough question, one which tends to prompt the old list of usual suspects: spiders, snakes, rats, heights and so on and so forth. But is the answer really as simple as that, for any of us? When it comes right down to it, I’m […]