DVD Review: Apartment 1303

By Keri O’Shea As a general rule of thumb, I tend to avoid English language versions of J-horrors. Sure, the Far East has provided rich pickings for cautious filmmakers and those who fund them, but almost as soon as Ring happened, Japanese horror became a victim of its own success; no sooner had Sadako become […]

"YEAH…!" 15 Years of Wild Things

By Ben Bussey Warning: spoilers, sideboob and man-ass ahead… ‘Sex sells.’ The old maxim has always rung true, and no doubt always will. However, back in the 1990s that time-honoured notion was taken to an altogether different level. The major movie studios had not yet developed that obsession with making everything PG-13/12A rated, so a […]

Review: Zombieland – the Series

Review by Mike Snoonian In the fall of 2009 Zombieland stormed cinemas, posing as the only credible threat to Shaun of the Dead’s claim for the best zombie comedy throne*. Featuring the best use of Bill Murray since Osmosis Jones Kingpin, crackerjack performances from its core cast (including a pre-Social Network Jesse Eisnenberg shedding the […]

DVD Review: Dead Mine (2012)

Review by Ben Bussey One thing we can categorically state about Britsh writer-director Steven Sheil is that he is doing his utmost to avoid pigeonholing. Having made his name with the dingy kitchen-sink ordeal horror of Mum and Dad, which was set for almost the duration in a squalid two-up two-down in the shadow of […]

DVD Review: The Facility (2013)

Review by Tristan Bishop Medical-themed horror is all around at the moment, from the diseased queasiness of films like Errors Of The Human Body and Brandon Cronenberg’s brilliant Antiviral, to the body-modification themes of American Mary. The morbid fear of hospitals, illness and surgery is a universal one, and has been represented in film since […]

Lewton & Tourneur's The Leopard Man at 70

By Oliver Longden It is fair to say that time has not been kind to The Leopard Man. 70 years after its release it looks hokey, unevenly acted and has a twist ending that looms like a Titanic-sinking iceberg over the second half of the movie. Yet despite its flaws, or perhaps because the distance […]