horror

Uncovering Curiosities: Andres Baiz’s THE HIDDEN FACE

The Hidden Face begins like most haunted house movies. A young couple move into a large country house and soon things start to go bump in the night. You’ve seen it all a million times before, but just as soon as you think that this Spanish [...]

November 26, 2020

Uncovering Curiosities: Stuart W. Bedford’s GOOD TIDINGS

Good Tidings is a down and dirty low budget horror from director Stuart W. Bedford. This British has high aspirations, taking elements of classic horror movies like Halloween and Texas Chainsaw Massacre, John Carpenter’s classic siege movie [...]

November 23, 2020

Uncovering Curiosities: Kevin Greutert’s JACKALS

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 2017 home invasion/siege movie gives you everything you could want from a genre film [...]

November 21, 2020

Behind The Scenes: Jeffrey Combs, Barbara Crampton & Bruce Abbott Goofing Around On The Set Of RE-ANIMATOR

The late Stuart Gordon’s Re-Animator is gloriously gory. The film, based on H. P. Lovecraft’s Herbert West Reanimator, is a prime slice of the ‘80s horror scene. It’s darkly comic, bloody as hell and totally over the top. You have to accept [...]

November 20, 2020

Uncovering Curiosities: John McPhail’s ANNA AND THE APOCALYPSE

As a Christmas-zombie-musical-teen-comedy, 2018’s multi-genre straddling Anna And The Apocalypse could have gone either way (with the odds on totally disastrous). However, director John McPhail has managed to overcome these odds to deliver a [...]

November 18, 2020

Notebook Reviews: RAVENOUS

Antonia Bird – 1999 A bizarre and darkly comic horror-western, Antonia Bird’s Ravenous is a uniquely entertaining slice of cinema. The film features some great set-pieces and the first hour is stunning – it loses some momentum [...]

November 18, 2020

Review: Bruce Wemple’s THE RETREAT Subverts & Defies Horror Expectations

Director Bruce Wemple is carving-out a hugely impressive career in creating horror movies which subvert the genre and defy expectations. Following on from his brilliant ‘bigfoot’ pic, Monstrous comes The Retreat, a film which takes-on the Native [...]

November 10, 2020