It’s a very rare thing indeed to see a filmmaker working in the styles so far chosen by director Alex Bakshaev in his career to date. His last film, The Devil of Kreuzberg, was to my mind a languid and stylish love letter to Jean Rollin; in S&M, Les Sadiques, we have a film not […]
By Keri O’Shea That director and purveyor of horror and sleaze, Joe D’Amato was born on this day in 1936, and had he not died so suddenly back in 1999, would have been near to eighty years of age at this point in time. And yet, somehow, something tells me he’d still have been making […]
By Keri O’Shea Nekromantik must be one of the most often-discussed, yet least-seen pieces of shock cinema which ever came lurching out of the 80s – that is, seen in its entirety at least. Here in the UK you could get hold of it, as you could most things, but not in any legitimate form […]
The Pack (La Meute) (2010) Distributor: Icon Home Entertainment DVD Release Date (UK): 4th July 2011 Directed by: Franck Richard Starring: Yolande Moreau, Émilie Dequenne, Benjamin Biolay, Philippe Nahon Review by: Ben Bussey It began like any other day on a bleak/remote/desolate country road in deepest darkest France. A moody emo girl burned down the […]