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 […]
Review by Tristan Bishop Nosferatu is now 92 years old, ladies and gentlemen – only 8 years until it gets a telegram from the Queen, in fact, so it seems odd that it should be getting a big re-release right now, but Eureka’s Masters Of Cinema label is putting out what promises to be the […]
Review by Stephanie Scaife If Machete felt like they were flogging a dead horse then Machete Kills is very much flogging a rotten, decomposed dead horse, which is as sad and depressing as you might imagine. Much like everyone else, I was fairly taken with Robert Rodriguez’s fake trailer for Machete that accompanied his and […]