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 […]
Review by Ben Bussey There’s something so nice about Curse of Chucky. Sure, it’s a nasty little movie full of duplicitous back-stabbers, some of whom do end up literally getting stabbed, or dying in some other hideous and spectacular fashion – but it still can’t help bringing that warm and fuzzy feeling. It’s the sixth instalment in […]
Review by Tristan Bishop Any publicity is good publicity, so the saying goes, and Young, High and Dead certainly announced itself in an unusual way, catching the attention for all the wrong reasons. A few months back a press release and trailer surfaced, with the director taking great pains to tell us that one of […]
Review by Comix Over the twenty years that Hellboy has been around, he has faced monsters and demons of all shapes and sizes. From mythical creatures of worship to sprites and fairies, Hellboy has beaten, stomped, and quipped with the best of them. Of course, like any good comic character, all heroes are required have […]
Review by Stephanie Scaife Caution: moderate spoilers and NSFW pictures of Mathilda May ahead. Tobe Hooper has had a mixed and oftentimes disappointing career as a filmmaker; the highs of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, widely regarded as one of the best horror films ever made, and the lows of, well, just about everything else […]
Review by Ben Bussey Caution: the following review of this thoroughly naughty movie contains thoroughly naughty images from some thoroughly naughty scenes, which are almost certainly NSFW depending on how lenient your employers are (assuming Brutal As Hell isn’t already barred by their safe-search settings and whatnot). Still with us? Awesome… This charming little family-friendly […]
Editor’s note: this is a detailed discussion of the film and, as such, it contains spoilers. By Keri O’Shea Sometimes, the luck of the draw can be a bitch. Emerging onto the horror movie scene in close proximity during the late Eighties came two, in some ways very similar, sets of demonic entities; in each […]
By Keri O’Shea Families. They’re funny things. Think about it: with no say on your part, you may find yourself tied, for the duration of your mortal existence, to a rag-tag assembly of people with whom you have very little in common, if anything at all. And yet, for all that – they still matter […]