Night of the Virgin (2016)

Midnight movie horror often strikes a similar chord to the sex comedy genre – bawdy humour and titillation, deliberate distastefulness – and yet, I struggle to think of any movies which have combined the two formats in quite the same way as Night of the Virgin (AKA La Noche Del Virgen). The first feature from […]

The Babysitter (2017)

Sigh – yet another Friday the 13th comes around, yet for the eighth bloody year in a row we still don’t have another Friday the 13th movie. Okay, I’ll accept that perhaps not all readers will be as bummed about that as I am, but I also know that I’m not alone in missing the […]

Blu-ray Review: The Comedy of Terrors (1963)

By Keri O’Shea The marriage of horror and comedy is not only nothing new, but it seems to have been a decidedly less tricky pairing, back when the gore was less protracted and graphic and the laughs depended less on shocks to make viewers laugh-out-loud. The distance between the two was shorter, see, but not […]

FrightFest 2011 Review: Chillerama

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, […]

DVD Review: Sharktopus

Sharktopus (2010) Distributor: Anchor Bay Entertainment DVD Release Date (UK): 14th March 2011 Directed by: Declan O’Brien Starring: Eric Roberts, Sara Malakul Lane, Kerim Bursin, Liv Boughn Review by: Ben Bussey At a top-secret lab in a top-secret location, a top-secret military bioengineering division are working on a top-secret project. Headed by the father-daughter duo of egomaniacal […]

UK DVD Review: Ivan Reitman’s 70s Sleazefest ‘Cannibal Girls’

Cannibal Girls (1972) Distributor: Nucleus Films Release Date (UK): 14th February 2011 Directed by: Ivan Reitman Starring: Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, Ronald Ulrich Review by: Ben Bussey Farnhamville is a little Canadian town, situated somewhere between Nowhere and Buttfuck. Despite the notable absence of anything to see or do, it seems the town has enough […]