REVIEW – Silent Hill: Revelation 3D – (DVD)
For your information I was eager to review this film for a long time prior to its release, had hoped to write it up on the original Halloween 2012 release date. Alas initial reactions were so instantly...
View ArticleBook Review – Them Or Us
Due to an entirely unforeseeable delay that was no fault of my own (the dog getting a hold of and mauling the Amazon package!), it took me a couple of extra days to get started on Them or Us, the third...
View ArticleREVIEW – Baise-Moi – (DVD)
Its really difficult to know where to start with Baise – Moi as there is literally so much to be said. Initially released in 2000, written and co-directed by Virginie Despentes and Coralie Trinh Thi,...
View ArticleBook Review – High Moor 2: Moonstruck
Despite the title, I can confirm that this book has nothing to do with the 80s rom-com starring Cher and Nicolas Cage but is in fact the follow up to High Moor, the excellent werewolf horror tale from...
View ArticleWIN – Copies of Room 237 on DVD
My mother claims that she went to see Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining while pregnant with me in 1980. Perhaps this is where my love of horror comes from. Regardless, I do love horror and I do love The...
View ArticleREVIEW – Evil Dead
Having relatively recently experienced the tepid, CGI heavy offerings of the remakes of John Carpenter’s The Thing and The Fog, I wasn’t getting my hopes up about the Evil Dead remake which is directed...
View ArticleREVIEW – Room 237 – (DVD)
Room 237 is a 2012 documentary directed by Rodney Ascher about hidden meanings contained within Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining. Using footage from The Shining along with other Kubrick films Ascher...
View ArticleREVIEW – Before Dawn – (DVD)
In my continued efforts to champion domestic horror films, my interest was piqued when Before Dawn, a 2012 British zombie film, came highly recommended by David Moody; a man who knows a thing or two...
View ArticleREVIEW – Knightriders – (Blu-ray)
Trying to describe 1981′s Knightriders in any kind of sensible fashion is very difficult when the concept of the film is based on a travelling circus of Medieval Jousters riding modern-day...
View ArticleREVIEW – Slasher House – DVD
Slasher House is a 2012 independent horror film from Director MJ Dixon. The film begins with Red, the protagonist, waking from enforced slumber, with amnesia. She is also naked and trapped in a cell....
View ArticleREVIEW – The Wrong House – (DVD)
The Wrong House is a new addition to the haunted house genre, written and directed by Eric Hurt. The basic premise is as follows: “Two very different families search for the perfect house to call...
View ArticleBy way of explanation…
Hey. Remember me? I know. I know. I’ve been away and it’s been quiet here. I am sorry for that. Truly, I am, but let me explain… As some of you may well know, almost exactly a year ago, I made my first...
View ArticleREVIEW – Night of The Living Dead: Resurrection – (DVD)
Horror has always had a home in Wales. 1941’s The Wolf Man is set in Wales. 1983’s House of the Long Shadows too was set in Wales and marked the last time Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee shared...
View ArticleREVIEW – Baron Blood – (Blu-ray)
Arrow video continue their recent impressive form with another Mario Bava re-release, the latest in a succession of Bava titles to be released on Blu-ray and DVD. This time, it’s Baron Blood....
View ArticleCheck out the trailer for Ben Wheatley’s A Field In England…
It seems that Ben Wheatley can do no wrong. Having blown just about everyone, everywhere, away with his hitman horror flick, Kill List back in 2011, and introducing the world to its first ginger serial...
View ArticleBook Review – Black Feathers
Having read Joseph D’Lacey’s vampiric tale Blood Fugue at the tail end of 2012, I was keen to sample more of the author’s work. However, I was initially hesitant when his latest work Black Feathers was...
View ArticleBook Review – Machina Mortis: Steampunk’d Tales of Terror
It’s no secret that I love horror based on historical fact or even that which takes a well-established genre archetype like Dracula and offers up novel stories such as those seen in Kim Newman’s Anno...
View ArticleFirst trailer for Deftone Picture Studio’s A Grim Becoming…
It was back in February when we last brought any news on A Grim Becoming, the latest film from Deftone Pictures Studios, the little Buffalo, NY-based studio with big ideas. Hot on the heels of the...
View ArticleRaise your glasses for two new posters for The World’s End…
I have to say this now. I simply cannot wait for The World’s End. Of course, I don’t mean literally but rather referring to the soon-to-be-released horror comedy and third in the trilogy of films from...
View ArticleVictor Crowley walks through the flames in new Hatchet III poster…
It has been a little while since we last mentioned Hatchet III, the latest installment in the slasher-in-the-swamp franchise, however with the recent trailer release and screening details creeping out,...
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