Review by Ben Bussey Let’s hear it for metaphor, fuelling the fires of the horror genre for time immemorial. Nothing validates a tawdry spectacle of murder and monstrosity better than some nice hints of symbolism; the sense that this gruesome slice of cheap thrills has an underlying social message, relevant to the contemporary audience… and […]
Review by Ben Bussey The above image is included just to ensure we are all well aware that this film is a product of the early 1990s. I realise to my alarm that 90s retro seems to be a thing now, and it occurs to me that some younger readers might need to have some […]
By Keri O’Shea Damn it, I have to admit – I do love a bit of 70s glamour. Oh, sure, we have the hairpieces, the false eyelashes and the ‘fuck the natural look’ make-up in spades today, but it just doesn’t look as…charming, somehow. Perhaps that feeling is exacerbated when you sit down to watch […]
By Tristan Bishop Small casts, man. Low budget horror films with small casts always start the old alarm bells going. More often than not you’ve got ninety minutes or so of tedium awaiting you. The same goes for single location films. Unless we’re talking Alfred Hitchcock then these generally don’t come off all that well […]
Review by Annie Riordan Yesterday was my birthday. Today is “recovering from a severe blueberry vodka hangover” day, so suffice it to say that I am in even less interested in mincing words right now than usual. I didn’t much care for Dark House. Granted, it was nowhere near as abysmal as the malodorous bucketful […]
By Comix In Balkan folklore, a dhampir refers to a half human/half vampire creature that has all the powers of the bat undead without all that sunlight and garlic crap to ruins its fun. Traditionally believed to have unruly black hair and lack of shadow, they are most likely found creeping around human virgins looking […]
Review by Tristan Bishop House Of Good And Evil, it seems, had an interesting production history, as none other than Clint Howard (brother of A-list director Ron Howard and the star of legendary video nasty Evilspeak) was originally slated to direct. Not only that, but veteran actor Tippi Hedren was going to star, pulling out […]
Review by Stephanie Scaife The last time I can remember being properly scared by something I saw in the cinema was in 2002 when I saw Takashi Miike’s Audition, and subsequently I’ve concluded that this is a result of two things. First of all, it was right on the cusp of the internet really being […]
Review by Quin Did you know that Hollywood produces 2 billion haunted house movies each year? Okay, that’s a lie. But it seriously feels like it’s around half that sometimes. We all know that there are almost as many horror subgenres as there are species of bugs, however the haunted house subgenre is one that […]
By Keri O’Shea It is of course a huge cliché to begin this review of Big Bad Wolves by professing my ignorance of Israeli cinema – but such it is, and if it’s going to be repeated elsewhere, it’s no doubt just as true from other quarters. Israel and film just feels beyond Western reach […]
By Tristan Bishop You would have had to have been serving time in a cosmic prison not to have noticed that Marvel films have been running things in the past decade. Since the first two X-Men films at the turn of the millennium showed us how comic book adaptations should really be done, Marvel have […]