By Keri O’Shea Jim Mickle. Joe R. Lansdale. When you hear those two names, chances are you immediately think of the horror genre – so, when both of those names can be mentioned in the same sentence, you’ll definitely expect a certain type of movie. Mickle has, after all, cut his teeth on the horror […]
Review by Ben Bussey Perhaps the greatest challenge of being a horror reviewer is finding fresh and creative ways to say “this film is a piece of shit.” Not the cheeriest opening sentence ever, I know, but the sad reality is that the direct-to-DVD horror market is and always has been strewn with cowpats from the devil’s […]
By Liam Cannon It seems to me that we live in an era of senseless hyperbole, when too many people have lost their sense of proportion. Kanye West terms himself a genius after penning some dull chart-topping dross and terms like “epic” and “awesomeballs” are hurled about with gay abandon in praise of the most […]
By Keri O’Shea We’re an unhappy array of meat-sacks, eh? Even in these times – in the Western world at least – of relative plenty and luxury (and before you argue, consider that you could have been born in the 14th Century) we treat our bodies like battlegrounds; when material concerns become secondary, we turn […]
By Keri O’Shea There’s been a strange sort of circularity to the career of Roger Corman. Whilst as a young man he made films about anything and everything he could (as did many directors and/or producers of his generation and longevity) he definitely seems to have had a soft spot for no-budget, turn-a-buck creature features: […]
Review by Quin In the fall of my first year of high school, my best friend and I decided to turn my backyard into a haunted house for Halloween. During September and October, we spent every day after school planning and building our own haunt. We had ropes and pulleys, we hung a maze of […]
Review by Svetlana Fedotov Ah, The Goon. Everyone’s favorite tough-talking, hard-drinking, hobo-slapping, pair of thugs for hire, Goon and Frankie, have been delighting fans for ages with their hilarious hi-jinks and low-brow humor. A clever mix of noir, humor, and horror, Dark Horses premier bad-asses are once again back in the spotlight with another one […]
By Keri O’Shea “I’m Welsh, and the Celtic twilight sometimes descends at odd moments.” Vincent Price Horror draws its influences from a diverse range of sources, in particular borrowing from the legends and lore of the past to conjure its contemporary demons. One of the richest seams for such forgotten horrors, ripe to terrify new […]
Review by Ben Bussey Lisa Johnson (Abigail Breslin) is a day away from turning 16. Naturally she’s a gloomy little thing with her Smiths posters, Siouxie and the Banshees T-shirt and dark eye make-up, at odds with the perpetual chirpiness of her parents and little brother, who seem to think nothing of being housebound all […]
Review by Stephanie Scaife If you ever thought that the werewolf movie sub-genre was missing something, I’m pretty sure the first thing to come to mind wouldn’t be the addition of a “were-cicada” to the canon. However, that’s precisely what we get here in Philippe Mora’s The Beast Within. This bizarre film is scripted by […]
Review by Ben Bussey I don’t know; kids these days. Bloody hooligans, the lot of ’em. Specially them what were born within minutes of one another during a solar eclipse, who grow to be evil incarnate with a lust to kill anyone who crosses them, but the smarts to get clean away with it. There, […]