By Ben Bussey How many billions of conversations in playgrounds/pubs/online forums and so forth have been spawned by the timeless question, “if x and y got in a fight, who would win?” How many scenarios have been played out in the imaginations of fans all over the world, picturing their favourite characters co-existing in the […]
By Keri O’Shea When we, at least we in the modern West, think about the physical embodiment of death, perhaps the first thing which comes to mind is the figure of the Grim Reaper – a cowled, skeletal character, and one who is typically either straightforwardly masculine, or possibly ambiguous, but certainly not feminine. And […]
By Ben Bussey The origin of the species. Not a bad name for a book, that. Also, it’s something that will always be of interest to anyone with a vaguely inquiring mind: the question of just where we human beings came from, how civilisation as we know it came to develop, and how we existed […]
Review by Ben Bussey It’s 2013, and as the V/H/S movies and The ABCs of Death have firmly established, the anthology horror movie is very much back in vogue. Is this why Little Deaths is only reaching DVD now, more than two years after it was first screened? Maybe; maybe not. But we should be […]
Review by Dustin Hall You’re Next is one of those films I almost hate to review, because I liked it a great deal, but that was aided by the fact that I had no idea what I was walking into. In fact, the trailer for this film advertises something completely different than what is actually […]
By Comix Aztecs were like the Vikings of the Americas; they were brutal, strong, and had a penchant for worshipping their gods through the blood of their enemies. With an empire that spread from Central Mexico to Northern Guatemala, the Aztecs were a force to be reckoned with, not only by neighboring cities but by […]
By Tristan Bishop Grindhouse. It seems to be becoming as reviled a term in horror/cult circles as ‘found footage’. Much has been written on the co-opting of the term from the original meaning (24 hour theatres showing everything from second-run commercial releases to kung fu to XXX films) to the current usage to denote 70s […]
By Stephanie Scaife Yawn… yup, you’ve guessed it, here we have yet another straight to DVD found footage horror film. This alone should be good enough reason to avoid The Dyatlov Pass Incident (or Devil’s Pass, as it is now known) but for my sins, I’ve sat through it and can confirm that there are […]
By Keri O’Shea I always fucking hated Beverly Hills 90210 with an absolute passion. As imports from the US go, it’s right up there with Ruby Wax and the school prom: a tedious, aspirational display of not-very-much being enacted by people who were far too old to be hanging around a school anyway. So, you […]
Review by Ben Bussey Rock’n’roll, and Satan: not unlike Britain and America, it’s one of those enduring ‘special relationships,’ the source of endless joy for some and endless anxiety for others. I’m often surprised how rarely the subject rears its horned and/or heavily hairsprayed head in the movies. To my mind, 1986’s PMRC-baiting heavy metal […]
Review by Comix Sidekicks have always gotten a bad rap. From ransom fodder to comedy relief, sidekicks have always been the throwaway characters of the comic world. In fact, Robin himself became so expandable that, at one point, in Batman issue #428, readers got to vote if Robin lived or died after a brutal attack […]