Review: The Demon’s Rook (2013)

Review by Ben Bussey I get the sneaky suspicion I may have just seen my favourite film of the year. So many of the things I have long mourned the lack of in contemporary horror are present and correct in The Demon’s Rook: awesome practical monster make-up and gore FX, eerie artificial lighting, billowing dry […]

Blu-Ray Review: The Pit and the Pendulum (1961)

Review by Karolina Gruschka Edgar Allan Poe – a “brilliant and disturbed man” (R. Corman) The first time Roger Corman read E.A. Poe was aged thirteen for a school assignment. He was so fascinated by The Fall of the House of Usher that, the following Christmas, he wished for the complete works of Poe. About […]

Film Review: The Rover (2014)

Review by Karolina Grushcka Technically not a horror film, The Rover is definitely a movie for alternative audiences. I base this on the director’s experimental approach, the bleak tone of the film and the depictions of graphic violence. The Rover is an Aussie production, written and directed by David Michod. The story is set in […]

Review: Killer Legends (2014)

Review by Quin The amount of creative inspiration that can be drawn from urban legend seems never-ending. So many of our favorite horror films have a clear basis in urban legend, but when they are bad they really fall flat. The most obvious of the bad stuff is the straight-forward no-creativity-necessary entitled the Urban Legend […]

Film Review: Sonno Profondo (2013)

By Keri O’Shea I hope I’m a reasonably neutral member of the team when it comes to the giallo genre – not really a big fan, but having seen a fair few by-the-by, enough to know what the features are. Essentially, I hope I came to the film without a weight of expectations. Reaching a […]