Review by Annie Riordan I know it may sound strange to many of you, but not only was I looking forward to watching a movie about a tree, I was also expecting it to be rivetingly entertaining. You see, I automatically expect non-American films to be way better than those made here in the same […]
Review by Stephanie Scaife The original VHS sleeve of Puppetmaster is seared into my brain. It was one of those garish and enticing horror sleeves guaranteed to lure you in, and as an 8 year-old it was one I particularly remember desperately wanting to see. So, flash-forward 20 odd years and last night I finally […]
Review by Stephanie Scaife I was slightly apprehensive going into The Aggression Scale, a straight-to-video production directed by Steven C. Miller whose earlier film Scream of the Banshee was, to be blunt, crap. However I was pleasantly surprised by this low budget thriller that is, as many others have noted, like an R-rated Home Alone. […]
Review by Ben Bussey I know what you’re thinking, and sadly the answer is no: at no point does anyone in this film say “Ni.” Nor does anyone demand a shrubbery. Okay, on the off-chance that wasn’t what you were thinking, you might be pondering what a new vampire film from Germany has to offer […]
by Ben Bussey It’s no accident that the words ‘cheap’ and ‘nasty’ so often go hand in hand. Horror is perhaps the one film genre which can be done on an ultra-low budget without damaging its chances of reaching a wide audience (well, there’s also porn, but let’s not get into that now). Indeed, it can be […]
Review by Ben Bussey Pulau Hantu: a small jungle island in the south of Singapore. Quiet. Peaceful. Serene. That is until a small military unit shows up, on a mission to track down some of their fellow soldiers who have gone AWOL and are believed to be on the island. Quite why they would go […]
By Keri O’Shea How to sum up the importance of a film like Hellraiser? I have much to say on that score, yet I must have started writing the introduction to this piece ten times before deleting it all. I started by trying to sum up what a game-changing film Hellraiser was, coming as it […]
Review by Keri O’Shea Yorkshire – it’s an awesome place, honest. I have to say, I’ve lived here for about ten years altogether simply because I like it so much. I’ve never seen any hairy pork scratchings which gave me cause for concern, never been called a ‘soft Southern shite’ (not to my face, anyway) […]
Review by Ben Bussey How their grizzled, square jaws must have dropped in the Dredd offices when word broke of The Raid. Another downbeat, hard-edged action flick set almost entirely in a tower block full of criminals, following some cops as they fight their way up to the big boss? Oh shit. And the similarities […]
Review by Annie Riordan I’ve seen some fucked up, weirdass shit in my life, and while nothing will ever knock Executive Koala out of the number one slot, Beyond The Grave is so close behind it that it’s almost anally invasive. At first it seems fairly straightforward. In the Brazil of the not too distant […]
Review by Ben Bussey I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: fourth chapter means outer space! Come on, Wrong Turn producers, you should know this. Don’t tell me there was no way you could have got the inbred hillbilly cannibals onto a space station, rocket or flying saucer. Surely that’s a preferable option […]