Review by Keri O’Shea When watching a great number of modern horror movies, there’s something I seem to find myself wondering: am I, the viewer, meant to empathise with the twentysomethings who are so often the main characters – or, are they being presented to me merely as stooges, awful human beings who are about […]
Review by Nia Edwards-Behi I have a feeling you might all misunderstand me when I compare REC3 to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2. You’re all going to think I hated it. Well, no. I love The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 almost as much as the original, and when I say REC3 is the Chainsaw 2 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
by Ben Bussey I should forewarn you that what follows will not be a standard retrospective. You see, today marks 25 years since The Monster Squad was first released to cinemas, and while I’ve no doubt that doesn’t mean too much to a lot of people, let me see if I can give some indication of what […]