DVD Review: Stash House

Review by Tristan Bishop Films can teach us valuable lessons about life, and one such lesson which has been repeated throughout the decades is that drugs are dangerous – from the pothead teens of Reefer Madness (1936) through to the sixties LSD scare films such as Alice In Acidland (1969) right through to more modern […]

DVD Review: Outpost II: Black Sun

Review by Ben Bussey Man, it seems a long time since Outpost came out. With the killer concept of hard-as-nails 21st century soldiers taking on undead Nazi stormtroopers, it was a film that seemed destined for cult status; however, for this writer at least it fell some way short of meeting its full potential. Now, over four […]

DVD Review: Hell (2011)

Review by Eric Lefenfeld The minor details can be nitpicked, but most post-apocalyptic tales tend to lean in one of two directions: they’re either The Road Warrior or The Road. Similar names, vaguely similar stories, but (literally) a world of differences. On one end, there is the wasteland filled with outsized anti-heroes and colorful villains […]

DVD Review: Bereavement (2010)

Review by Kit Rathenar Bereavement is a movie that seems to have hugely divided opinion on its initial release, between the claims of a certain subset of critics who apparently reckoned it to be the best thing since Psycho, and the reactions of ordinary horror fans who just wanted that hour and forty minutes of […]

DVD Review – The Monk (2011)

Review by Stephanie Scaife I have to admit that I knew nothing of this story before watching the film and was somewhat surprised that I’d never come across it before. The Monk started off rather infamously as a novel, initially published anonymously due to its violent and sordid content, by a young Englishman named Matthew […]

DVD Review: A Night in the Woods (2011)

Review by Tristan Bishop The Blair Witch Project. There, I said it. Back in 1999 a micro-budgeted film was catapulted into the mainstream, riding on a brilliant publicity campaign making use of the internet, then still quite the novelty in some circles, to fuel its ‘is it, isn’t it?’ appeal. Although taking some cues from […]

Retro Review: Invasion of the Bee Girls (1973)

Review by Keri O’Shea If you’ve ever heard the expression ‘May you live in interesting times’ then you’ll probably see how this isn’t necessarily a good thing, and the folk around to remember the world back in 1973 would probably be able to tell you a lot more about that. See, the early Seventies were […]

DVD Review: Dinotasia

Review by Ben Bussey Dinosaurs are cool, aren’t they? Doesn’t it just beggar belief that these big Godzilla-type creatures that we’ve seen chasing hapless humans through jungles and cities in B-movies for time immemorial really did walk the earth once upon a time? That’s the real secret to the endless appeal of dinosaur movies, I think; that, […]

DVD Review: The Harsh Light of Day (2011)

Review by Tristan Bishop Vampires are a victim of their own success these days. The creatures of the night, once found holding entire Eastern European villages in terror under their cold grasp of fear, have recently found themselves cast in pretty boy lead roles in the equally loved-and-loathed genre of ‘supernatural romance’. This is undoubtedly […]