Review by Tristan Bishop In the pantheon of Great Horror Directors, David Cronenberg still reigns supreme. Even though he’s moved outside of the genre in the past 25 years or so, every film he’s made has been possessed of a dark, unsettling core. Even A Dangerous Method (2011), ostensibly a historical drama about the relationship […]
Review by Tristan Bishop Over the past decade Tetsuya Nakashima has emerged as one of the most interesting names in Japanese cinema. I first encountered the delightful, surreal comedy Kamikaze Girls (2004) and the devastating elegiac drama Memories Of Matsuko (2006) when they were screened on Film Four in the UK some years ago, and […]
Interview by Keri O’Shea A few months back, I reviewed the most recent edition of Exquisite Terror – a nicely ambitious print magazine which successfully sustains a whole-‘zine ethos and approach, all whilst showcasing a range of intriguing, studied horror journalism. It’s a style which stands out against many other print projects out there, but […]
Review by Matt Harries Ooh, a video nasty! Unhinged, made when I was a mere pup, is one of the 72 infamous films that made it onto the BB of FC’s tabloid bothering list back in 1983. I must confess I haven’t exactly gone out of my way to hunt down all of these documents […]
Review by Tristan Bishop Young Detective Dee : Rise Of The Sea Dragon was one of the great surprises of Sitges for me – not just for the content of the film, but that I had no idea it existed at all until I spotted it in the brochure and probably got a little over-excited. […]
Review by Ben Bussey At the risk of sounding like a broken record bringing this damn film up at the start of every comedy horror review, there’s a key reason Shaun of the Dead is held up as a modern classic: it took a very silly pun title, and transcended it. At a glance, we’d […]
By Keri O’Shea Modern life can be hard, can’t it? Oh, I’m not knocking the unprecedented lifespans, the technological marvels or the tremendous ease and comfort we enjoy generally these days, but everything comes with a price, and it seems the price we pay is being mercilessly fucking hounded into the ground by a never-ending […]
Review by Ben Bussey Sometimes, it feels like you learn all you need to know about a film from a single descriptive phrase. Hammer Horror, Slasher Movie, Torture Porn, Found Footage; all these titles carry with them a weight of expectation (or, sometimes, lack thereof), and more often than not as soon as we hear […]
Review by Nia Edwards-Behi I’ve been eagerly awaiting the chance to see A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night for some time. A film dubbed an Iranian-vampire-western, directed by a woman, seems quite tailor-made to my tastes. Shot in stark black and white, the film is set in the fictional Iranian town of Bad City, […]
Review by Matt Harries Anyone who reads this site regularly will know that the ‘found footage’ film inspires somewhat mixed emotions. I consider myself to be relatively un-jaded with the format, mainly because I have studiously avoided it, with the exception of the first [REC] film. I even have to admit to never watching The […]
By Keri O’Shea “Even dying is an act of eroticism.” The name ‘Cronenberg’ may be synonymous with a particular brand of warped body horror these days, but it wasn’t always so. Still, those of us familiar with his work now will have a fair idea of what to expect; one can only imagine what effect […]