Review by Kit Rathenar I went into British indie found-footage movie Hollow aware that it had previously managed to outrage my dear colleague Annie Riordan (read her review here), but hoping that I might have better luck with it. Maybe it would have more resonance for an English viewer. And indeed, at least I can’t […]
Review by Kayley Viteo I still remember the first time I saw The Texas Chain Saw Massacre – I’m sure any horror fan worth their salt can. It has stood the test of time (now nearly 40 years later) to become one of the most frightening and disturbing films in the horror canon. I say […]
Review by Ben Bussey “Stop all the rapin’ and killin’! You can’t run around rapin’ and killin’ everythin’ in fuckin’ sight!” Given that Dear God No! has only been granted an 18 certificate from the BBFC after 1 minute 37 seconds of cuts, it’s fair to say this line from early in the movie is […]
Review by Comix Steve Ditko is a man who gets around. Not only is he considered to be one of the most influential artists in the comic industry, but he is also responsible for creating such huge characters like Spider-man and Dr. Strange and contributing heavily to Iron Man and The Hulk. He is a […]
Review by Keri O’Shea Jess Franco was (and is) ready to turn his hand to just about anything, so it should come as little surprise to find that he did, back in 1970, make a film all about the turbulent history of 17th Century Britain. In many ways, The Bloody Judge is rather an anomalous […]
Review by Annie Riordan Things I Learned from the Movie V/H/S: #1 – All men are stupid. #2 – All women are evil. #3 – Public Enemy was right. The hype should not be believed. I’d heard nothing but positive things about this movie, a found footage horror anthology which debuted at Sundance, boasted segments […]
By Keri O’Shea The Shining is a personal favourite of mine, and remains one of the strongest horror films I’ve seen – a film which retains its impact, even after many viewings. It’s safe to say I’m not on my own in that respect, as the presence of the documentary film Room 237 attests. However, […]
By Oliver Longden Horror franchises fade and die just like other organisms. What starts off as a vibrant exciting premise winds up puking and shitting itself to death in abject confusion while the rest of society does their best to ignore it like an embarrassing relative in a nursing home. Rarely has this been more […]
Review by Nia Edwards-Behi I jumped at the chance to review Jackpot, marketed heavily as ‘Jo Nesbø’s Jackpot’, having thoroughly enjoyed Headhunters (‘Jo Nesbø’s Headhunters’), both film and book. I’m intending on reading more of Nesbø’s work – I would have already if I wasn’t so slow at reading – given my nascent interest in […]
Review by Ben Bussey “Oh please… make it stop! Make this throbbing stop!” That’s it. End of review. If those two lines of dialogue alone (and the photograph above) don’t sell Vampire Ecstasy to you, then there’s really nothing more to be said. Bye-bye. Okay, okay, I’ll let you in on a bit of the plot. […]
By Stephanie Scaife In a year brimming with Dark Knights, Avengers and Hobbits, not to mention the impending (if ultimately anticlimactic) apocalypse that was supposed to befall us last month I feel that 2012 has been a pretty weak year for us horror fans, where there have been far too many films eliciting nothing more […]