Review by Stephanie Scaife Jim Van Bebber’s The Manson Family is a labour of love if ever there was one, taking him approximately fifteen years to complete, shooting on weekends and days off for over ten years, then taking a further five years to edit due to a constant lack of funds. So what started […]
By Keri O’Shea It could all have gone so wrong. It would have been oh-so easy for Maniac (2012) to be yet another entrant in a now vast catalogue of shoddy, pointless reboots. The original is beloved of a hardcore of film fans who like their violence sleazy, but I hope it’s fair to say […]
By Keri O’Shea It’s always a pleasure to encounter a filmmaker who really ‘gets’ short films, and it seems like we’ve found such a fella in Colin Campbell, two of whose films we’re happy to be able to show you in our latest instalment of Horror in Short. The first, Dollface (2011), takes us a […]
By Keri O’Shea Often times, the thing that makes or breaks a dystopian horror is its level of plausibility. Could we – honestly – foresee a scenario which at all resembles that which is depicted in our film? Is it all a little too close for comfort? It’s a fine line to walk though; too […]
Review by Stephanie Scaife I will to admit having extremely low expectations of World War Z when I went into this screening, despite the unexpected appearance of the one and only Mr. Brad Pitt to introduce the film and big it up to the audience. The troubled production had been widely reported with the release […]
Review by Ben Bussey When a film is released to DVD almost eight years after it was made, it tends not to inspire a great deal of confidence. However, when said film has the names Robert Rodriguez, Carlos Gallardo and Harvey and Bob Weinstein attached, it also inspires at least a little curiosity. Such was […]
By Keri O’Shea Bram Stoker’s Dracula was the direct antecedent of what is arguably the first horror film ever made, and in the best part of a century which has followed, it has remained a particularly fertile source for horror movie makers. By their very nature, the films which have followed have been variable; never, […]
Review by Kit Rathenar CAUTION: NSFW Photos below. “Don’t you know it’s the eighties?!” Believe me when I say that between the music, the costumes, the haircuts, the cars, and the cinematography, I COULD TELL. I came away from David DeCoteau’s 1989 flick Dr Alien fairly certain that it was objectively dreadful, but not quite […]
By Oliver Longden Clowns; the number one entertainment career of choice for serial killers, potential serial killers and people who just hate children. Whether you’re afraid of clowns like many normal people or sexually attracted to them as I am, there’s no mistaking the fact that a clown in its natural environment is about as […]
By Tristan Bishop If you missed it, click here to read Part 1 of Tristan’s history of Cushing’s horror career outside Hammer, as part of our Cushing Centenary tribute. 1971 was not a good year for Cushing. The death of his wife Helen Beck, after 28 years of marriage, affected him greatly. He had to […]
By Tristan Bishop Think of Peter Cushing and you think of Hammer – and vice-versa, as the studio and the actor are intrinsically linked. He appeared, alongside fellow Hammer stalwart Christopher Lee, in the breakthrough hits from the studio, The Curse Of Frankenstein (1957) and Dracula (1958), and their early successes paved the way for […]