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 […]
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 […]
Review by Ben Bussey Amongst the many various cast and crew anecdotes on the extras of The Victim, one stands out as particularly amusing/faintly disturbing (funny how often those two overlap): actor Ryan Honey recounts a key scene in which – spoiler alert, I guess – his character had to choke out that of his […]
Review by Annie Riordan Alma wants a baby. Fine. Good. And why not? She’s young, she’s beautiful, she’s healthy, she seems to live a fairly affluent life in her native Sweden, happily ensconced in a relationship with Johan, her husband/boyfriend/whatever. They have everything BUT a living, breathing representation of their love. So they start trying…or […]
Review by Keri O’Shea Editor’s note: this is a repost of Keri’s review from last year’s Dead By Dawn fest. As Harold’s Going Stiff is on limited theatrical release in the UK this week, we thought we’d share it again and hopefully inspire you to go see it. Zombies have been used as a metaphor […]
by Ben Bussey Have you heard the good news? Vertigo is now officially the single greatest film ever made in the history of the world. The cultural elite have knocked their heads together and decided that Citizen Kane just ain’t the slam-dunk it used to be, and have dethroned it in favour of Hitchcock’s dizzying, […]
by Stephanie Scaife Caution: spoilers ahead… 1987. Regan is President, the Cold War continues, Thatcher is re-elected Prime Minister, the first ever episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation airs on television… and on 31st July Joel Schumacher’s teen vampire flick The Lost Boys was unleashed on US audiences. 25 years later and it has […]
Review by Ben Bussey I’m going to come right out and say it: I’m really not a sports fan. Generally speaking, that’s not too unusual for a film geek, is it? Ball games, athletics; you name it, I’m not a fan of it (beyond a very casual interest in martial arts and extreme sports). This being the case, you can imagine my apathy about […]
Review by Keri O’Shea Do you remember when WWF had (almost) nothing to do with endangered wildlife and everything to do with pro-wrestling? (Let’s try to put Jake Roberts and Koko B. Ware out of our minds for now, if you please.) Anyway, if you do remember, and better still, if all of this means […]
Review by Ben Bussey “Poor old Job,” as is remarked more than once in this film. That famously upbeat book of the Bible is a common point of reference here, centring as it does on a good man whose existence is turned into a living hell as the ultimate test of his faith in God. […]