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 […]
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 […]
By Svetlana Fedotov I read a lot of comics. I mean a LOT of comics, and I don’t even review nearly half of what I read. There are many reasons why I pass on covering the majority of what I find, though mostly, it comes down to time and how fresh the comics are. I […]
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 by Karolina Gruschka Every year I promise myself that I will attend the next FrightFest. But each time August approaches, I realise that I do not have the funds for it, yet again. This year, to make up for it, I decided to at least treat myself to one movie. Despite a few film […]
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 […]
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 […]
By Stephanie Scaife It’s that time of year again…yes, FrightFest is here and like Christmas, it seems to come around quicker each year. Having been a regular since 2003 I’ve seen the festival go through many changes and this year has seen some major ones. Firstly, you can say good bye to a single screen […]
By Keri O’Shea With a title like Blood Orgy of the She Devils, a film is setting itself up for a time of it, I think we’d all agree. Yes, it’s bound to get one’s attention, but it also then has to live up to a hell of a lot; any lack of blood, orgies […]
By Keri O’Shea “Because no one has more thirst for earth, for blood, and for ferocious sexuality than the creatures who inhabit cold mirrors.” (Alejandra Pizarnik) The mirror has a long, complex relationship with our culture, and so it’s little wonder that such a host of superstitions, anxieties and beliefs should have found […]
Review by Ben Bussey If Shion Sono remade a Michael Mann movie, I would expect the result to be pretty close to Killers. Writer-director duo Timo Tjahjanto and Kimo Stamboel (AKA the Mo Brothers) have crafted a tale of an unlikely brotherhood between two drastically different individuals who somehow find themselves arch rivals as they […]