So, as you will hopefully have noticed, given the sticky post here on the site, myself and David Flint of Reprobate Press have recently published a book. Horror Out of Control is a collection of horror and genre cinema reviews spanning the first two decades of the new millennium, taking in the best, the worst and everything in between. We’re delighted to have a copy of the book available to give away, but we thought to ourselves: where would be the fun in simply getting people to email in, and then entering them into a random draw? Surely it’d be more fun to make them work for it.
And so, this is what we’re going to do.
The idea is this: to follow is a list of quotes from reviews which we’ve included in the book (with a few words amended here and there, to ensure these can’t be Googled – we’re not saying people are cheating so-and-sos, but then again, we’re cynics.) Your task, should you choose to accept it, is to identify the film from the quote. Some of these are pretty straightforward, and some are a little trickier. When you have your answers, please email your numbered list to keri(at)warped-perspective.com.
(The fine print: if we get several responses with all correct answers, these will be put into a draw and a winner chosen at random. If there are NO all correct answers, then we’ll go to the next best and do the same, if there is more than one entry with the same score. Apologies, we can only offer this competition to readers in the UK and Ireland because of exorbitant costs – however, if anyone anywhere wants to do the quiz for fun, please do and we’ll give you a shout out on Twitter, if you include your username. The competition will end on Saturday, 5th December at midday (GMT) and no personal data will be stored once the competition ends. Good luck!)
Here we go then…
- “Set in the Finnish wilderness somewhere near the Russian border, it opens with a group of scientists finding something hidden in ice inside a mountain.” Rare Exports
- Easily-jaded genre watchers are overly keen to praise any film that doesn’t pander to the elements that all too often drew them to the genre in the first place. That they all seem willing to ignore or excuse the deeply conservative sexual fears at the heart of the story is odd. I’ll take a bloodbath with cheap scares over a horror movie sponsored by the abstinence brigade any day, personally.” It Follows
- “Female lead: if you escape a violent mob whom you believe are going to kill your intended, don’t hide under a tree, approach the gang once it gets light, watch your partner getting tortured and then try to Bluetooth his mobile from yours.” Eden Lake
- “Interestingly, these vampires don’t have fangs, but instead have an extending talon on their finger that is used to bloodily tear throats open.” Byzantium
- “Five mostly crappy stories […] a cynically cliché ‘home movie’ style […] displaying a nasty streak of frat boy humour and relentless misogyny.” V/H/S
- “The film follows Ace, a wannabe rocker heading to a concert, only to be waylaid by love, alien invaders, zombies and lots and lots of explosions en route. Don’t you hate it when that happens?” Wild Zero
- “Never did I expect Dracula to turn up as a cuddly owl and make me laugh my gin through my nose…This film is part Noah’s Ark and part AA meeting, a huddle of slurring or disengaged actors wending their way through a random selection of blood-drinking beasties, bad fangs and sudden boobs.” Dario Argento’s Dracula 3D
- “The film begins with Pinhead ruminating on a modernity now too satiated with technology to be interested in a simple ‘wooden box’. Who’d have thunk it – the Lament Configuration is just too lo-fi these days.” Hellraiser: Judgment
- “As someone who likes short films but often finds whole programmes of them rather hard going thanks to the inconsistency of styles, this format seemed both worrying and reassuring. On the plus side, at least all the films would be a similar, very short length and have a connecting theme; on the negative side, there are a few directors attached to this project who have only ever churned out crap.” ABCs of Death
- “A riveting look at Hungary over some difficult decades, or an excuse for lob-ons and a vomit Olympics? You be the judge…” Taxidermia