Review by Annie Riordan The severe psychological scars inflicted upon us by the bullies who made our K through 12 lives a living hell have inspired some of the best horror films ever made: Carrie, Let The Right One In, Ginger Snaps, etc. The success of these films really isn’t difficult to fathom. We’ve all […]
Review by Comix Have you ever thought to yourself, ‘I wonder what the Japanese equivalent of A Serbian Film is?’ Well wonder no more, my friends, because your fearless comic reviewer has braved the wilderness of the bizarre and grotesque to bring you a comic work of unbridled fucked-uppiness called Ultra-Gash Inferno. I’m going to […]
Review by Keri O’Shea Ah, Mark ‘Luke Skywalker’ Hamill. From “a galaxy far far away” to a busy career doing voiceovers for games and kids’ TV, one might wonder what it was about the Airborne project which drew you back to the movies – and definitely to the horror genre – for the first time […]
Review by Ben Bussey First things first: ignore the title and cover art. Regardless of what the European distributors would have you believe, this is not a film about Jean-Claude Van Damme; he is a side figure at most in this narrative. Instead, this film is about the man on whom the movie Bloodsport was based, […]
Review by Stephanie Scaife Directed by William Friedkin and adapted for the screen by Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Tracy Letts from his stage play of the same name, Killer Joe is a sleazy, sun soaked neo-noir. Full of pitch black humour, Killer Joe twists and turns its way towards an almost unbelievably sadistic finale that […]
Review by Ben Bussey Mild spoilers ahead… I’m in the curious position of being introduced to the work of filmmaker Monthon Arayangkoon in reverse order. Having first seen the Thai writer/director’s most recent film, 2007’s The House, when MVM released it to DVD recently, it now falls upon me to assess his sophomore effort, 2006’s […]
Review by Nia Edwards-Behi I knew very little about Storage 24 before going to see it this evening. I knew it starred Noel Clarke, whose films I don’t tend to go see, and that it was directed by Johannes Roberts, whose films I (foolishly) have yet to make the effort to go back and watch. […]
Review by Keri O’Shea I have to start this review with a bit of a mea culpa: I went into watching this screener with low expectations. I don’t pretend it’s fair of me, but then I cannot watch films in a vacuum, and I’ve got a lot of issues with the current state of play […]
Review by Stephanie Scaife I first saw The Innkeepers at FrightFest last year, and was thrilled that Ti West had lived up to my expectations with his follow up to the fantastically creepy The House of the Devil (2009). I was keen to revisit it on DVD and see if it played just as well […]
By Keri O’Shea For cinema-goers way back in 1982, it was definitely the year of the alien. An alien, stranded on this planet, who approaches, observes and begins to mimic a group of humans…however I’m talking not about a horror, but about E.T., a film whose feelgood message and benign central entity captured the hearts […]
Review by Ben Bussey Yes. Yes. Yes. Okay, pardon my Meg Ryan moment, but I assure you it’s warranted. Films like Absentia are the very reason us nerdy web-critics get into writing these reviews; the reason we invite distributors and PR agents to flood our letterboxes with screener DVDs for films that we’ve heard little […]