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 […]
Review by Comix Death is the dark mistress who awaits every living creature at the end of their time on Earth. When that final bell strikes, we will find ourselves existing beyond our pitiful lives; lives that were once immersed in pain, hate, sorrow, and, if we’re lucky, love and happiness. But for some poor […]
By Oliver Longden The Crazies is 40, but should anyone care? It is usually considered one of George A. Romero’s lesser works, partly because it has had less of a solid legacy than his iconic zombie films, and partly because everyone always forgets about the real rubbish like Survival of the Dead, alongside which The […]
Review by Stephanie Scaife We are all aware that horror is an immensely popular and profitable genre, hence the number of straight-to-video releases that line the shelves on a weekly basis. This has resulted in the horror genre being viewed as a quick cash-in for many studios and these cheaply made, fast-turnover movies have seen […]
Review by Ben Bussey Early on in this documentary, John Landis reiterates something he’s said many times about Ray Harryhausen over the years, explaining why he thinks the stop-motion master occupies a truly unique position in film history: this is the fact that he is the only notable case of technician as auteur. Really, would […]
Review by Kit Rathenar I wasn’t sure what to expect from British retro indie horror The Fallow Field, the feature-length debut of director Leigh Dovey, but let me say at once that I ended up being pleasantly surprised by it. Steve Garry stars here as Matt Sadler, a man having a very bad life. When […]
By Keri O’Shea I have to say, I was somewhat blind-sided by the press release for The Bay – enough so that it completely took my mind off the fact that I was about to watch a found footage film, a sub-genre I have ranted about at length in the past. Perhaps this was even […]
Review by Tristan Bishop If you’re a horror fan advancing in years you may remember the dark days of the early-to-mid nineties, where genre product was at its lowest ebb since the late 1940s. The late 80s comedy horror craze had run its course, and before (love it or hate it) Wes Craven’s Scream revitalised […]