By Keri O’Shea Everyone seems to remember the first time they saw Beetlejuice. I’d say it’s just one of those films which sticks with you, through its zany plot, its manic energy and wit; Beetlejuice is a rite of passage almost, something to recommend to your friends. I remember someone being allowed to get the […]
Review by Oliver Longden About halfway through Creepozoids I was asking myself a single question: is this just a cynical attempt to rip off Alien with the budget almost entirely removed and replaced by the lurking promise of seeing Linnea Quigley’s breasts? By the end of the film I had the answer: no, you can’t […]
By Comix John Constantine is one of those characters that refuses to be tamed, like a beautiful, sexy stallion with a cockney accent and a pack-a-day habit. Forever getting in and out of trouble, the trench coat-wearing magick user has been part of the DC/Vertigo (and more recently DC 52) universe for as long as […]
Review by Nia Edwards-Behi Warning – Spoilers. All the spoilers. (But that shouldn’t matter as you really shouldn’t bother watching this film.) Were it not for the fact that I was reviewing The Inside, I would not have watched it to the end. Quite where to start with this offensive joke of a film is […]
Review by Tristan Bishop As a horror fan I like Rob Zombie. He’s a man who loves horror, and has respect and passion for the genre. He makes the films he wants to make, and fills them with casts full of genre legends and lesser-known cult actors. Zombie is truly one of us; he makes […]
Review by Tristan Bishop Simon Killer is not the film I thought it would be. The UK poster, with eye imagery recalling Argento’s Four Flies On Grey Velvet and the heyday of Italian giallo cinema, had me expecting some kind of retro head trip along the lines of Helene Cattet and Bruno Forzani’s stunning Amer […]
Review by Oliver Longden The Day Time Ended is a tantalising name for a movie, but when you spend a lot of time watching old science fiction and horror movies you quickly learn not to get sucked in by a snappy title. As Troma have amply demonstrated over the years, taking a really awful film […]
By Ben Bussey Hot on the heels of Keri’s (ahem) enthusiastic appraisal of Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death, here I come with another couple of eye-catching titles from the golden days of Full Moon’s straight-to-video empire, now reborn into the DVD age (just as DVD itself is starting to have a certain […]
And so, the gears of the great grindhouse revival grind on. We’ve seen all manner of trash cinema subgenres given the neo-retro treatment in recent years: zombies and car chase flicks, in the Tarantino/Rodriguez double bill that started it all; blaxploitation, in Michael Jai White’s Black Dynamite; and leather-clad post-apocalyptic action in Neil Marshall’s Doomsday […]
By Keri O’Shea Naming films is a tricky matter. Of course, you want your title to appeal to its right audience, of course you want to generate anticipation, but by the same token, you run the risk of false advertising if you put too much in there. It’s like the perils of advertising a film […]
By Keri O’Shea Once upon a time, back before the BBC discovered the joys of lowest-common-denominator, Coliseum for Cowards television which allows members of the great unwashed to feel like their opinions matter (dross like Strictly Come Dancing, for instance) it was much more willing to take chances on unusual original series, and Dead Head […]