Horror in Short: Vision (2010)

By Keri O’Shea A young woman (Axelle Carolyn) goes to collect her post one day and discovers that she’s been sent a mysterious DVD entitled ‘Watch Me’. Curiosity, of course, gets the better of her. She places the disc in her player, and – that’s her first, significant mistake. What she sees on the disc […]

Review: Entity (2012)

Review by Nia Edwards-Behi Superficially, you might think ‘oh god, not another found footage film’ when reading about Entity in synopsis. From the outset let me say – it’s not found footage. First time feature director Steve Stone cannily explains the hand-held elements of the film as a ‘motivated camera’, and he’s spot on. While […]

Review: It’s In The Blood

Review by Annie Riordan Every photograph leaves behind a negative image of itself, an inversion of darkness on light and shadow on sun. Can the same be said for photographic memories? And if so, where are those negatives stored? October – much like his namesake – is beautiful but melancholy. Returning home after a long […]

DVD Review: Killer Joe

Review by Ben Bussey When a seasoned director of note steps back behind the camera, it puts an inevitable slant on the viewing experience. We can’t help but reflect on past glories and relate them to what we see before us now. Sometimes, if the latest work does not stand up well in comparison with that of […]

DVD Review: Santa Sangre (1989)

Review by Kit Rathenar When a film runs to a full two hours and inside the first half hour has already managed to demolish a church and stage a funeral for an elephant, you know you’re dealing with a director of remarkable if somewhat skewed vision. Alejandro Jodorowsky’s extraordinary Santa Sangre (“Holy Blood”), originally released […]

Review: Sleep Tight

Review by Marc Patterson César (Luis Tosar) is a perpetually unhappy man. Everyday is a waking hell for him. However, to the residents of the apartment building he works in, they would never know it. This faithful doorman is the embodiment of polite servitude, a man whose character you’d never question. Underneath his polished exterior […]

“Watch the magic pumpkin!” Celebrating 30 Years of Halloween III: Season of the Witch

  By Keri O’Shea “You don’t really know much about Halloween…you thought no further than the strange custom of having your children wear masks and go out begging for candy…It was the start of the year in our old Celtic lands, and we’d be waiting… in our houses of wattles and clay. The barriers would […]

DVD Review: Lovely Molly

Review by Nia Edwards-Behi Lovely Molly was not the film I expected it to be. I purposefully avoided reading too much detail about it, as I often do, but I was expecting a tale of a haunted house, or of a woman’s possession. That’s not what I got. The film’s got ghosts and demons, in […]

DVD Review: Dark Tide (2012)

Review by Ben Bussey Sharks have had to put up with a lot over the years, haven’t they? Kept as pets by Bond villians; blown to smithereens and/or electrocuted by Roy Schieder; facing the wrath of LL Cool J after eating his bird. So how do they fare when pitted against Academy Award® winner Halle […]