horror

Blu-Ray & DVD Review 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 Review 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

Blu-Ray & DVD Review Round-Up: BABY DRIVER, CAGE DIVE, BELLE DU JOUR, CHANNEL ZERO & More

This time around we take a Journey To The Centre Of The Earth; discover a Resurrection Of Evil; Cage Dive gives a new meaning to going ‘down under’; Belle Du Jour is the order of the day; A Kind Of Murder is suspect in more ways than [...]

October 28, 2017

STRANGER THINGS 2: Know Nothing With This ‘Don’t Know’ Clip

Like many, Movies In Focus was taken by Stranger Things. I was onboard with the Spielbergian/Stephen King/John Carpenter vibe that permeated the Netflix show. Season 2 looks to continue that. Here’s a teaser which shows you absolutely [...]

October 23, 2017

Mayhem Film Festival 2017: Days Three & Four

Read about Mayhem Film Festival 2017: Days One & Two SATURDAY 14 OCTOBER The third day of Mayhem kicked-off with the festival’s weakest film. Tag had energy and visual style but it just seemed like a collection of concepts thrown together [...]

October 22, 2017

Mayhem Film Festival 2017: Days One & Two

The Mayhem Film Festival always has a great buzz. That’s because genre fans fully embrace the films they come to see and they’re willing to judge them for what they are (not on box office or PR). Every year the audience is willing to [...]

October 14, 2017

Deliver Us From Evil: Iconic Horror Characters

For the first time since 2006, Friday the thirteenth falls in October. While this news might get paraskevidekatriaphobics (look it up, fact fans) in a spin, the rest of us can use it as an opportunity to get into the Halloween spirit a whole 18 [...]

October 13, 2017

Book Reviews: Take A Look Inside KIM NEWMAN’S VIDEO DUNGEON

Movies In Focus has been reading Kim Newman’s work for almost 30 years. His reviews in Empire Magazine have gone on to achieve a similar cult status to the films he critiques and his writing is filled with a humour and intelligence which puts most [...]

October 5, 2017