horror

Blu-ray Review: THE VISITOR Features Aliens, Evil Telekinetic Children And Jesus Christ

The movie world has (and always will) been filled with filmmakers who want to cash-in on successful films. For every huge hit there are a slew of lesser imitators produced in order to score even a fraction of the financial success. The blockbusting [...]

October 25, 2014

Blu-ray Review: You’ve Never Seen Anything Till You’ve Seen THE INCREDIBLE MELTING MAN

The Incredible Melting Man riffs on the science fiction nuclear-age horror movies and comics of the 1950s. It’s about, Steve West (Alex Rebar) an astronaut who returns from a trip to Saturn – he’s a man, he begins to melt – [...]

October 25, 2014

First Full Length Trailer For THE WOMAN IN BLACK: ANGEL OF DEATH

The first full length trailer for horror sequel The Woman in Black: Angel of Death has dropped. We’ve already had a couple of teasers, but this is the real deal for this WWII set horror starring Phoebe Fox, Jeremy Irvine and Helen McCrory. [...]

October 23, 2014

DVD Review: TREEHOUSE Feels Like THE GOONIES Meets HALLOWEEN

We live in a time when lowered expectations are the order of the day in the horror genre. We’ve come to accept so many poor movies that look like they’ve been thrown together by failing film students that we forget that there used to be a lot of [...]

October 20, 2014

DVD Review: BAD MILO Is Not A Good Body Horror Comedy

Bad Milo is an body-horror comedy that riffs on the classic creature features of the 1980s. Ken Marino plays Duncan, a stressed-out accountant who grows a creature deep inside his bowls. When the creature is unleashed it begins to murder those who [...]

October 18, 2014

Second Teaser Trailer And New Poster For THE WOMAN IN BLACK: ANGEL OF DEATH

The second teaser trailer and a new poster for The Woman In Black; Angel Of Death have dropped (just in time for Halloween). It’s interesting to see this being spun-off into a franchise; an old-school English horror story. It’s Hammer [...]

October 11, 2014

DVD Review: Zombie Mystery OPEN GRAVE With Sharlto Copley Lacks Life

A zombie-amnesia thriller, Open Grave is a film with some solid ideas, however Gonzalo López-Gallego fails to do anything with them. Star, Sharlto Copley is left stranded with little to do as the mysterious stranger who wakes up in an open grave, [...]

October 9, 2014

DVD Review: REAPER Is Shocking For All The Wrong Reasons

Reaper may not be the worst horror movie you see this year, but it’s highly likely that it won’t be the best. Philip Shih has fashioned a film that is low on scares and lacking in any real thrills. The problem lies in the script by James Jurdi [...]

October 7, 2014

Blu-ray Review: Australian Horror WOLF CREEK 2 Starts Well But Loses Its Way

Wolf Creek 2 is a violent and darkly comic horror that will do one thing – put you off visiting the Australian outback. I haven’t seen the original Wolf Creek but I get the impression that it was probably a darker, leaner movie than this sequel. [...]

September 20, 2014

John Carpenter’s HALLOWEEN Comes Back To The Big Screen For One Night Only

A restored and remastered digital print of John Carpenter‘s Halloween will play on big screens across the globe on Halloween night. SpectiCast (an event cinema marketing and distribution company) has joined forces with Compass International [...]

September 16, 2014

Blu-ray Review: HANDS OF THE RIPPER Contains Melodramatic Moments Of Gory Camp

Hands Of The Ripper is a gloriously melodramatic 1971 horror from Hammer Films. Peter Sasdy’s film follows Jack The Ripper’s daughter (Angharad Rees) who subconsciously murders her way across Edwardian London. Her condition is caused by a [...]

September 1, 2014

Review: X MOOR Is A Ball-Bustingly Visceral British Horror

X Moor is a ball-bustingly visceral British horror from Luke Hyams that gets things just right on a storytelling and thrills level. The film kicks-off as young American couple, Georgia and Max (Melia Kreiling and Nick Blood) to travel to England to [...]

August 27, 2014

Trailer: Spooky Goings On In The WOMAN IN BLACK: ANGEL OF DEATH

The first trailer for The Woman In Black: Angel Of Death has been unleased. Can this horror sequel be as scary as the original? It’s doubtful because Daniel Radcliffe [...]

August 26, 2014

Interview: Writer/Director Axelle Carolyn Talks About Her Debut Feature SOULMATE, Horror And The BBFC

Horror will always be popular. It plays with our fears and nightmares in a way that no other genre can. From campfire stories through to novels and cinema, our primal dread of darkness and the unknown have always been captured in tales [...]

August 23, 2014

Blu-ray Review: Join Vincent Price And Donald Pleasence In THE MONSTER CLUB

The Monster Club is a totally bizarre, but ultimately very enjoyable horror-comedy-musical starring Vincent Price, Donald Pleasence and John Carradine. This low budget shlocker, directed by Roy Ward Baker may not be the most cohesive of [...]

August 20, 2014

Blu-ray Review: THE QUIET ONES Brings Back The Classic British Hammer Horror

Hammer used to be the byword for quintessentially English horror movies but changing cinematic tastes saw the studio crumble and die when audiences wanted to see less satin and more slashers. After several decades in the cinematic moratorium, the [...]

August 20, 2014

DVD Review: SOULMATE Is A Gothic Ghost Story From Axelle Carolyn

Nobody really makes old fashioned haunted house films about ghosts anymore. It’s something of a lost art. We have our fair share of found footage movies and gore filled sequels, but the basic concept of a haunted house without some sort of gimmick [...]

July 13, 2014