By Keri O’Shea The literary works of HP Lovecraft have long been a source of temptation for horror filmmakers keen to take on the challenge of rendering visible all of those unspeakable, unknowable and unnameable terrors. It’s something of an irony, given that Lovecraft himself wasn’t keen on the silver screen as a medium, and […]
By Keri O’Shea In horror, certain things seem to go together very nicely, and anyone with even a passing interest in the genre could work out that you Don’t Go Into The Woods if you know what’s good for you; as certainly as you’d lose all of your marbles once a mere half an hour […]
Review by Ben Bussey There’s a joke about this being a ‘cult’ movie in here somewhere, but try as I might I can’t seem to pin it down. You see, not only is the debut feature of writer-director Riley Stearns a film likely to attract a cult following, but it also deals with the subject […]
By Ben Bussey Click here to read Tristan’s report on Abertoir Horror Festival from Monday 5th -Thursday 8th November 2013. So here I pick up where Tristan left off – more or less. See, while I did indeed arrive on Friday 9th November for my second year at Abertoir, I didn’t get there until mid-afternoon. […]
By Tristan Bishop Anyone who has been to Abertoir will tell you it isn’t like other film festivals. In fact I lost count this year of the amount of people I overheard talking about this. Why? Well some of the newcomers were praising the non-commercialism of the event. There are no corporate sponsors here, for […]
Review by Tristan Bishop I bet you’ve never really considered having a demon living up your arse, have you? Or if you have, your thinking probably went along the lines of ‘I really don’t fancy having a demon living up my arse’. Well, it’s a tough concept to sell, I’ll admit it, but Bad Milo […]
Review by Ben Bussey If you’ll forgive me for opening on something of a negative note: one rather noticeable problem on the horror festival scene this year – and I do mean across the board, not just at Abertoir – is the absence of any one film that’s well and truly set the (mimes quotation marks) horror […]
Review by Tristan Bishop The horror remake machine trundles along with no sign of slowing down, but as much as the horror fan’s learned reaction to the word ‘remake’ is the same as that of the term ‘found footage’ to a Brutal As Hell writer, remakes are not always a bad thing. Before you crucify […]
Review by Ben Bussey 2013 is well on its way to becoming the year I start liking found footage again. I’ve never been particularly enamoured with the format – I always disliked The Blair Witch Project, for one thing – but there have indubitably been at least a few truly great horror movies made in […]
Review by Ben Bussey It’s one of the age-old questions of science fiction: where does machine end and life begin? At what point might artificial intelligence equal or even overtake that of humanity; and if/when it does, what will be the outcome? Countless sci-fi works over the decades have tackled these questions, and now writer-director […]
By Keri O’Shea I don’t tend to go on conventional holidays, but for four years now I’ve been making a yearly pilgrimage to a picturesque seaside town in mid-Wales…and, hand on heart, I wouldn’t have it any other way. I first became aware of this unique horror film festival via FAB Press all those years […]