By Guest Contributor Helen Creighton They say you should never, ever meet your heroes, whoever ‘they’ are. They are likely right, for a host of reasons – the risk of gushing and embarrassing yourself for life and the unpleasant shattering of a pleasantly-sustaining personal fantasy when said hero turns out to be a bit of […]
Review by Karolina Gruschka I was not entirely sure what the phrase ‘play hooky’ in the film title means and therefore looked it up online. Turns out it is an American term employed to state that one is skipping school or work. This would make sense as the five main characters in Play Hooky (2014) […]
Review by Ben Bussey If there’s one complaint that holds up above all else when it comes to 21st century horror, it’s surely the lack of any truly great new iconic bad guys. We can pretty much measure the best decades for horror by the great monsters they gave us, from Dracula and Frankenstein (both […]
Review by Quin When I was given the task of reviewing The Pact 2, not having seen the first one, I agreed anyway. I then did what any reasonable film critic would do to prepare myself for this task, I found The Pact on Netflix and watched it. Having enjoyed it as much as I […]
By Svetlana Fedotov Ask any hardcore punk fan and they will say that on the Seventh Holy Day, God did not rest, but, in fact, created punk rock. Spurring cultural movements and getting anti-social kids laid since Joey Ramone’s ugly mug became the face of rebellion, punk is more than just music, it’s a whole […]
Review by Dustin Hall If there’s one thing that you can take away from Annabelle, it’s that people are effing terrified of dolls. This follow-up/prequel to James Wan’s The Conjuring last year was able to illicit groans and shudders of disgust from its audience every time a doll came onto the screen, whether it was […]
By Matt Harries What does the vampire mean to you? Looking back through the annals of cinema we are spoiled for choice when it comes to choosing our favourite manifestation of the bloodsucker. In recent times, long form television has given us vamps who look like models; sexually charged, magnetic and beautiful as in True […]
By Ben Bussey Hopefully by now you’re well aware of James Sizemore, multi-talented filmmaker behind the highly recommended low budget monster movie The Demon’s Rook, which came to VOD and iTunes in the US earlier this week. Regardless of whether you’ve been fortunate enough to see that gore-soaked, latex-heavy demonic horror extravaganza and have been […]
By Keri O’Shea The Dracula story continues to be a source of inspiration for filmmakers, although to what degree they incorporate Bram Stoker’s novel into the resulting film has always been a sticking point, with many now either not bothering whatsoever or going off on such a wild tangent that old Bram himself wouldn’t recognise […]
By Keri O’Shea As horror has become (somewhat) more seriously considered and appreciated within wider culture in the past fifteen years or so, more and more people have taken it upon themselves to look in closer detail at the make-up of horror. Just who populates the stories that make up the genre? How are the […]
Review by Ben Bussey It feels strange to be finally catching up with one of the best horror films of its year several years after its initial release. When the screener arrived for Kidnapped I’d all but forgotten the praise it first attracted in 2011; Nia caught it at BIFFF, Steph at FrightFest, and our […]