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 […]
Review by Stephanie Scaife Long before the recent influx of portmanteau horror anthologies such as The ABCs of Death and V/H/S there was George A. Romero and Stephen King’s Creepshow, a homage to the E.C. horror comic books of the 1950s. It has long been a fan favourite and remains one of Romero’s biggest financial […]
By Tristan Bishop If there’s one thing I love just as much as horror films, it’s music. In fact, in another guise (editor’s note – there’s a clue in the title), I run an internet radio station and can be found DJing in some pretty terrifying London venues. It follows therefore, that I have a […]
Review by Quin Let me just say right away, this movie has very little in common with the BBC game show hosted by Graham Norton. It does however share its inspiration. They are both based on the popular game most of us have either played at a party or with a group of friends. In […]
Review by Ben Bussey Have we run out of new ways to tackle the vampire? I must say, I’m beginning to wonder. With each successive attempt to breathe new life into that most time-honoured of monsters, it’s seeming more and more that there just isn’t an approach that we can take that doesn’t directly recreate […]
Review by Stephanie Scaife It’s difficult to find something new to say about Halloween, a film that has been so widely seen and written about over the years, but here we are with the 35th Anniversary edition on Blu-ray. This seems rather excessive given the other various versions on both DVD and an earlier Blu-ray, […]
By Keri O’Shea There have been a few cryptozoological horrors in recent years – that is, horror movies about mythologised species, part-legend and part hazy reports from often unreliable sources. The Sasquatch, the Mothman, even the Chupacabra…and, in new British movie Lord of Tears, we have an interesting mash-up of creature legend and pagan ritual, […]
Review by Tristan Bishop Night time. A young woman pulls up her car and gets out. She walks to her front door, puts the keys in the lock and walks in. A man appears. He stabs her to death. “My name is Allen”, a voice-over tells us, “And this is what I do.” It’s an […]