By Keri O’Shea Y’know, it’s a funny thing. For a genre which has always gone so firmly hand in hand with fantasy, there’s always been a small, but stubborn undercurrent to horror which obsesses over the antithesis of that fantasy – the portrayal of ‘real events’. Whether it’s rumours of real footage being hidden in […]
Review by Ben Bussey 2013 is well on its way to becoming the year I start liking found footage again. I’ve never been particularly enamoured with the format – I always disliked The Blair Witch Project, for one thing – but there have indubitably been at least a few truly great horror movies made in […]
Review by Abbie Stutzer Cannibal Diner is nothing special. It’s a run-of-the-mill “murderous mutant family” horror film. It’s filled with gross-out gore and most of the deaths are relatively tame, and not creative. Lame! (I mean, you’d think mutants would think of creative ways to kill young co-eds, whilst wasting away in their toxic, industrial […]
By Keri O’Shea When we think about the portrayal of the eponymous Vikings on screen, we tend to associate them with battle epics – simply put, hear ‘Viking’ and assume that blood, guts, rape and pillage can’t be far behind. Well, to a certain degree, the shoe fits; the first Naval superpower didn’t always make […]
Review by Ben Bussey It’s one of the age-old questions of science fiction: where does machine end and life begin? At what point might artificial intelligence equal or even overtake that of humanity; and if/when it does, what will be the outcome? Countless sci-fi works over the decades have tackled these questions, and now writer-director […]
Review by Ben Bussey Mavericks, rebels, iconoclasts, non-conformists; these are labels we tend to throw around romantically, typically in reference to those we class as heroes. Then there are such labels as freak, weirdo, nutcase, menace; more often than not these can be applied to the exact same people, depending on whether or not we agree […]
Review by Comix I got to admit, when I first saw the title “Clown Fatale” and the tag “sexy female clowns mistaken for contract killers,” I wasn’t completely sold. I was imagining an awful, tit-filled comic stuffed with shitty art, shitty story, and shitty dialogue. Well, at least two of the three. Needless to say, […]
Review by Ben Bussey Anyone who sets out to make a microbudget indie horror has some very real obstacles to face. Not only do you have the basic creative challenge of crafting a movie which gives people something a bit new, different, and preferably at least a little bit scary; you also have to do […]
Review by Quin After doing a little research, I was shocked to find out that before this year there hadn’t ever been a proper full length film adaptation of the classic short story The Monkey’s Paw. There were a couple of filmed productions of the stage play from the 1920’s through the 40’s, but each […]
By Stephanie Scaife It’s Halloween night, and everyone is relishing the opportunity to delight in the transgressive, the uncanny and the things that go bump in the night. I do love Halloween, it provides me with the opportunity to be able to over indulge in candy and to wear as much black as I did […]
The zombie movie phenomenon which started with Romero’s Night of the Living Dead has wound up providing us with a very-extended family tree; we have official sequels, unofficial sequels, remakes, sequels to remakes, and possible add-ons to the original Dead trilogy universe which makes the recent I Spit On Your Grave remake-sequel tangle seem […]