By Matt Harries It’s 1984. During that year of Orwellian portent Hollywood warns us of the great danger that lurks in our sleeping minds. Our cosy dream-reality can in fact be usurped by others. Others who are seemingly omnipotent in their murderous intent. Others who may attack with razor sharp claws that spring from their […]
By Matt Harries About as meaty as a half-pound chilli burger and at least as subtle, Evil Feed sees stuntman and stunt co-ordinator Kimani Ray Smith (Watchmen, X-Men) make his directorial debut with the kind of film that epitomises a fast food approach to horror. If you are looking for nuance and refinement, delicacy of […]
By Svetlana Fedotov When DC comics invented Vertigo over twenty years ago, there was a certain elemental magic to it that was never quite seen again; a type of connection between reader and creator that was lined with blood, the occult, and the dark magic of the earth itself. Whilst, for the most part, DC/Vertigo […]
By Karolina Gruschka The importance of Faust to German culture is comparable to that of Hamlet to the British. All Germans encounter the tragedy at some point in their lives, mainly via the educational system. It is interesting that F.W. Murnau chose this material to be the content of his last German film before his […]
Review by Ben Bussey This, for better or worse, is one of those “where it all began” movies. Though Troma had already been in the filmmaking/distribution game for a full decade before The Toxic Avenger came along, this is the film on which their legend is built, and with which their enduring formula was established: […]
By Keri O’Shea A lot of cult movie stars end up being synonymous with one of their qualities or attributes, but for me, Marilyn Burns will forever be associated with her scream. I first encountered The Texas Chain Saw Massacre on a copied VHS cassette as a teenager, just like many others (I Spit On […]
By Svetlana Fedotov Arguably one of the most brutal periods in human history, the Dark Ages were so impeccably grim that being sold into medieval prostitution and dying of consumption were perhaps the highlights of your short and miserable life. Alright, maybe I’m exaggerating a bit, but this particular dim era in our few thousand […]
Review by Quin If you have read at least a handful of my reviews, you may have noticed that I review quite a bit of documentaries. Just like my bio says – I love documentaries. In fact, along with this film right here, my next review is going to be a documentary as well. While […]
By Keri O’Shea Can it really have been fifteen years since Blair Witch slipped into the modern horror consciousness? Love it or hate it – and people seem to fall into one or other of those categories – it has significantly shaped the horror cinema which followed in its wake. Since Blair Witch, nothing has […]
By Keri O’Shea Just when we might have thought that the rise and rise of the internet and the proliferation of new types of technology might eventually edge out older media altogether, we’ve been proved wrong: I certainly never expected to see audio tapes making such a comeback, for instance, and – more to the […]
Following the microbudget horror scene can be a curious game. A lot of it is instantly forgettable, but now and then along comes the odd small scale DIY movie that manages to capture the attention of the (quote-unquote) horror community. Sometimes it’s easy to see why these cheap and cheerful efforts win the hearts and […]