Deadheads (2011) Directed by: Brett Pierce, Drew T. Pierce Starring: Michael McKiddy, Ross Kidder, Thomas Galasso, Benjamin Webster Review by: Ben Bussey When American twentysomething Mike (McKiddy) wakes up one day to find himself in some kind of strange incubation chamber, he doesn’t know what the hell’s going on. Stepping out into the world, he […]
Kill List (2011) Directed by: Ben Wheatley Starring: Neil Maskell, Michael Smiley, MyAnna Buring Review by: Ben Bussey Contract killer Jay (Maskell) hasn’t worked in months. He lives comfortably with his wife (Buring) and their son, but the debts are starting to pile up, not to mention the marital tensions. Anxious to avoid taking on […]
The Woman (2011) Directed by: Lucky McKee Starring: Pollyanna McIntosh, Sean Bridgers, Angela Bettis Review by: Ben Bussey Within a suprisingly short distance of one another exist what would appear to be two polar opposites of human life. The Cleek family live an affluent and comfortable existence in their beautiful ranch home, whilst in the […]
Chillerama (2011) Directed by: Adam Rifkin, Tim Sullivan, Adam Green, Joe Lynch Starring: Joel David Moore, Ray Wise, Lin Shaye, Richard Riehle Review by: Ben Bussey The drive-in is about to close down. The locals pile in by the car load, and owner Cecil Kaufman (Riehle) plans to give them a final night to remember, […]
The Glass Man (2011) Directed by: Christian Solimeno Starring: Andy Nyman, James Cosmo, Neve Campbell, Christian Solimeno Review by: Ben Bussey At a glance, Martin (Nyman) would appear to be the man who has everything. He wears fine bespoke suits and an expensive watch, drives a top-of-the-range car, and lives in a well-furnished town house with […]
Black Heaven (2010) Distributor: Arrow Films DVD Release Date: 5th September 2011 Directed by: Gilles Marchand Starring: Louise Bourgoin, Gregoire Leprince-Ringuet, Pauline Etienne Review by: Keri O’Shea A young couple, Gaspard (Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet) and Marion (Pauline Etienne) are enjoying summer in the idyllic South of France when, by chance, they find a mobile phone. Their […]
by Ben Bussey READER ADVISORY: spoilers ahead (though perhaps that’s a given on a retrospective…) 22nd August 1986; a day that will live in… well, I can’t honestly say I have any conscious memory of that particular day. I was six years old and living in North-East England. As such, I certainly wasn’t aware that it was the […]
Umbrage: The First Vampire (2009) Distributor: Left Films DVD Release Date: 17th October 2011 Director: Drew Cullingham Starring: Doug Bradley, Rita Ramani, Jonnie Hurn, Natalia Celino Review by: Aaron Williams We open on a sweeping shot of a forest, a Jeep steadily working its way along rocky roads. Cut to inside the moving car and […]
Curio (2010) Distributor: ISIS Ltd DVD Release Date (UK): 12th September 2011 Directed by: Steven Nesbit Starring: Wayne Russell, Jennifer Bryer, Sydney Wade, Richard Wood Review by: Ben Bussey All-American lady Lauren (Jennifer Bryer) and her half-English little girl Emily (Sydney Wade) travel to the Yorkshire moors to visit the quaint little cottage that was […]
Wreckage (2010) Distributor: Chelsea Films DVD Release Date (UK): 22 August 2011 Directed by: John Mallory Asher Starring: Mike Erwin, Aaron Paul, Scoot McNairy, Cameron Richardson, Kelly Kruger Review by: Stephanie Scaife Directed by John Mallory Asher, Wreckage brings the indistinguishable-victims-get-stalked-and-killed genre to a scrap yard; as the tagline so helpfully warns us, “The spare […]
Cowboys & Zombies (AKA The Dead and the Damned) (2010) Distributor: Left Films DVD Release Date (UK): 8th August 2011 Directed by: Rene Perez Starring: David A. Lockhart, Camille Montgomery, Rick Mora Review by: Ben Bussey The old west. It’s the rootinist, tootinist place. You got lone gunslingers having daring shoot-outs with bad guys in […]