horror

DVD Review: JACKALS Is Dark, Bloody And Very Entertaining

With an creepy opening ripped straight from John Carpenter’s Halloween (with a touch of Michael Mann’s Manhunter), Jackals gets off to a good start. This home invasion/siege movie gives you everything you could want from a genre film – [...]

June 10, 2018

It’s Time to Go Back To Haddonfield: New HALLOWEEN Trailer Is Here – And It Rocks

The Halloween franchise has had a long and convoluted history, but now David Gordon Green and Danny McBride have cleared the board and reset to near zero (with the help of Jason Blum and John Carpenter). Halloween 2018 pitches itself as the true [...]

June 9, 2018

Blu-ray & DVD Round-Up: IT CAME FROM THE DESERT, THE MOUNTAIN OF THE CANNIBAL GOD, THE LODGERS & THE MERCY

This time around: There’s B-movie thrills in It Came From The Desert; things get bloody in Mountain Of The Cannibal God; The Lodgers is an Irish ghost story and Colin Firth and Rachel Weisz go to sea in The Mercy. DVD Review: It Came From The [...]

June 6, 2018

Which Witch? Trailer For Luca Guadagnino’s SUSPIRIA Remake

While it doesn’t look much like the original on a visual level, it would seem that Luca Guadagnino’s remake of Dario Argento’s 1977 Suspiria will have its own fair share of atmosphere. The texture and look of this film looks [...]

June 4, 2018

Blu-Ray & DVD Round-Up: THE POST, THE COMMUTER, BATMAN NINJA & More

This time around: Tom Hanks And Meryl Streep try to take down Nixon in The Post; Liam Neeson should have taken the bus in The Commuter; the Dark Knight goes to Japan in Batman Ninja; Michael Caine takes you through My Generation; venture back to [...]

May 14, 2018

Interview: BEYOND THE WOODS Star John Ryan Howard

Beyond The Woods is a highly entertaining Irish horror film from writer-director Sean Breathnach. When I reviewed it I said it was a small movie that packs a hefty punch which features strong performances and characterisation (read the review [...]

April 4, 2018

Notes On John Carpenter’s THE FOG

Movies In Focus introduced The Fog (1980) at Nottingham’s National Justice Museum as part of a John Carpenter Season (find out more). Guests were treated to a foggy display in the Shire Hall (see below) and a ghost tour before watching the [...]

March 12, 2018

Nosferatu Lives In These First Images From MIMESIS EVOLUTION

Way back in 2012 Movies In Focus reviewed Mimesis, a horror that riffed on George Romero’s Night Of The Living Dead (read the review). Now director Douglas Schulze is back with a sequel, titled Mimesis Evolution which uses F. W. Murnau’s [...]

March 3, 2018

Get Ready For More MAYHEM In 2018

It’s official (but it was never really in doubt) that the Mayhem Film Festival will once again return to Nottingham’s Broadway Cinema from 11-14 October 2018. Hopefully Movies In Focus will once again be in attendance. Here’s the [...]

February 21, 2018

Blu-Ray & DVD Round-Up: BLADE RUNNER 2049, BRIMSTONE, FLATLINERS, JIGSAW & More

This time around: Blade Runner 2049 fails to replicate the replicant success of the original; Guy Pearce raises hell in gritty western Brimstone, Luke Goss knows it’s Your Move; Flatliners doesn’t have much of a heartbeat; there’s [...]

February 10, 2018

HELLRAISER: JUDGMENT Trailer

Movies In Focus loves a bit of old-school horror. It used to be about velvet and fangs, but it would seem like its now all about leather..or something. The Hellraiser franchise is now over 30 years old – but the tenth instalment in the [...]

January 9, 2018

Blu-ray Review: Rats Entertainment With WILLARD And BEN

The double whammy of Willard (1971) and Ben (1972) sees a killer rat and his pack wreck havoc on suburbia. The films might not ring a bell in the 21st Century (some might remember Glen Morgan’s 2003 remake of Willard) but there’s much [...]

November 8, 2017

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