Review by Tristan Bishop The dictionary describes the word excision as ‘removal by cutting’ – which, ironically, is the opposite of what we’re presented with here, as Excision is an elongated version of a short film from 2008 with the same name. It passed me by in the original format, but apparently did well enough […]
by Dustin Hall “What is blood for, if not for shedding?” This year saw not only the 25th anniversary of Hellraiser, but also the 20th anniversary of another Clive Barker creation, Candyman. The two are not, by any means, on equal footing, and it is daunting, in some ways, to do a retrospective on the […]
Review by Stephanie Scaife Apartment 143 is an exercise in tedium if ever there was one, and a fine example to back up Keri’s recent editorial detailing exactly why we’re all so fed up of found footage movies and why they should be wholeheartedly discouraged, if not wiped out entirely from the horror genre. Apartment […]
Review by Kit Rathenar It’s only fair of me to admit that I’m probably not the target demographic for a film like Closed Circuit Extreme. Then again, I really don’t know who IS the target demographic for the flood of torture/rape movies currently going around. I’d quite like to find out, if only so I […]
Interview conducted by Ben Bussey If there’s one breed of movie monster that’s never going anywhere, it’s the vampire. That time-honoured balance of sex and death has long kept them popular both within and without horror fandom, and I can’t see that changing anytime soon. One of the most recent fang-flicks to reach the UK […]
Review by Tristan Bishop Caution: some spoilers ahead. I think I’ll be upsetting no-one, save possibly the future producers of Hostel 4, when I say that torture porn as a dominant horror genre is on the way out. The first Saw film was 8 years ago, and what will doubtless be forever considered the artistic […]
By Keri O’Shea For as long as home video cameras have been around, there’s been the potential to make movies about people making movies. And, once upon a time, as hard as it is for us to believe today, this was a novel idea. You can make a strong case for Cannibal Holocaust introducing the […]
by Dustin Hall It’s been spoken about in hushed, excited whispers. For months, Las Vegas visitors and residents have been watching black sheets and saw blades perched along the top of the Planet Hollywood Casino, waiting for The Goretorium to open its doors. All that anticipation is finally ready to be met, as Eli Roth’s […]
Review by Kit Rathenar What do you call a relentless tide of mindless, drooling, moaning horrors that keeps coming, is apparently limitless in its scale, and is impossible to hold at bay forever no matter what fortifications you erect or how well you arm yourself? That’s right: indie zombie movies! It seems like literally everybody, […]
Review by Kit Rathenar Whoever wrote the publicity material for Piyapan Choopetch’s My Ex didn’t necessarily do it any favours by trying to push it as a revenge thriller in the mode of Fatal Attraction, as the prospect of yet another revenge horror movie made my blood run cold in all the wrong ways. It […]
Review by Kit Rathenar Perhaps accidentally, there’s something grimly topical about Géla Babluani’s 13. In the run-up to an election that’s seeing America tear itself apart over the question of whether its citizens should be free to die in the street if they don’t have health insurance, this movie opens by introducing us to Vince […]