Prison inmate Tommy (Calem MacDonald) escapes prison via a bedbug-infested drop-off of mattresses and bedding at the local dump. Not only does this show commitment to the bit but, given the reaction of the worker who spots him, it isn’t even the first time this has happened. Tommy makes it into town, where he heads […]
In 1983, the Director Of Public Prosecutions published its first list of movies which were tagged with the tabloid-friendly label of Video Nasties. These cinematic outliers were deemed to have to power to deprave and corrupt and, if the title in question had been successfully prosecuted under the Obscene Publications Act of 1959, any dealer […]
By guest contributor Chris Ward Don’t be misled – the word ‘Lost’ in the title does not mean everyone has forgotten about him, because if he never did anything else in his career, Paul Di’Anno will always be remembered as the voice of heavy metal behemoths Iron Maiden on their first two albums, those being […]
As the poor, plot-irrelevant saps we meet briefly during Evil Dead Burn‘s pre-credits sequence die their genuinely horrible deaths, I almost had to laugh. Not because years of viewing increasingly horrific gore has burned away my nerve endings, though perhaps that is partly true; no, it’s the fact that the original Evil Dead (1981) was […]
In 1983, the Director of Public Prosecutions published its first list of movies which were tagged with the tabloid-friendly label of Video Nasties. These cinematic outliers were deemed to have to power to deprave and corrupt and, if the title in question had been successfully prosecuted under the Obscene Publications Act of 1959, any dealer […]
In 1983, the Director Of Public Prosecutions published its first list of movies which were tagged with the tabloid-friendly label of Video Nasties. These cinematic outliers were deemed to have to power to deprave and corrupt and, if the title in question had been successfully prosecuted under the Obscene Publications Act of 1959, any dealer […]
Reality Killers (2005) begins with a caption which reads, “This film was mailed to us by an anonymous sender” and the viewer will instantly understand why, as the whole shebang is set up to be a whistle-stop tour of a very twisted individual’s collection of snuff videos. And, according to the IMDb summary, what follows […]
The busiest and best time of the year for Warped Perspective is just around the corner again, as the Fantasia International Film Festival gets ready to celebrate its 30th anniversary. Covering Fantasia has become a regular fixture for the site and it’s always genuinely very exciting: it’s often an opportunity to see world premieres of […]
A young man called Amenashi (Iori Abe) is grieving the loss of his sister, Anna (Utano Aoi), who took her own life after witnessing a suicide – the experience of which seemed to draw her in, making her doubt in any sense of a future. In a broader sense, Amenashi is grieving the kind of […]
Camping: not even once. That’s perhaps surprisingly, or perhaps unsurprisingly, the clearest message in The Devil Whispered my Name (Un susurro invocó mi nombre), a film which – in trying to do a lot – ends up not doing much. This is a shame, as there are some brilliant visual flourishes and good sound design […]
Vampires have come on a lot since Bram Stoker’s time. Modern iterations of the original Count Dracula have grown well beyond the plague-bringing, coffin-dragging antagonist role. See the maudlin, complaining protagonist Louis and the dashing, bratty Lestat (Interview with the Vampire); the sexy-rich fashion plates played by Catherine Deneuve and David Bowie in Tony Scott’s […]