saw Archives - Movies In Focus

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

Blu-ray Review: Bryan Bertino’s THE STRANGERS Is A Modern Horror Classic & Second Sight Films Gives It The Release It Deserves

Writer-director Bryan Bertino made a hugely impressive and incredibly assured directorial debut with The Strangers. A home invasion horror, the 2008 film is loaded with a building tension and it’s definitely not one for the faint-hearted. [...]

September 30, 2020

Did You See Saw? First Poster For Spin-Off SPIRAL: FROM THE BOOK OF SAW

The curious combination of Chris Rock and Samuel L. Jackson topline the Saw spin-off Spiral: From The Book of Saw. Apparently Rock is a die-hard Saw fan and he came up with the concept for this expansion of the universe. There have been eight [...]

March 9, 2020

Blu-ray Review: Second Sight Films Delivers A Brilliant Package For Cyber Thriller UPGRADE

Upgrade seemed to come and go on its cinematic release in 2018 before hitting the home entertainment realm with little fanfare. It sure passed me by and I would like to think that the film’s new re-release from Second Sight Films will see the it [...]

November 28, 2019

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

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

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

JIGSAW Is Back: Poster For Eighth Film In The SAW Franchise

Movies In Focus was never a big fan of the Saw franchise, but here we are as the 8th instalment in the series is preparing to hit screens. This latest film, titled Jigsaw after the villain of the previous efforts (numbers and numerals are so [...]

July 11, 2017

You Can’t Keep A Good Horror Franchise Down: CULT OF CHUCKY Teaser Trailer

Iconic monsters of horror may appear to die, but they always come back when you least expect them. Friday the 13th‘s Jason Voorhees and Halloween‘s Michael Myers are set to return, along with the Saw franchise’s Jigsaw and even [...]

January 7, 2017

DVD Review: Horror Pic VISIONS Fails To Impress Despite An Eclectic Cast

Visions is the latest film from horror conveyor belt Blumhouse Productions. Unfortunately it’s not the best or most original fright pic to come out of the horror shingle. The biggest plus for this movie is that it attempts to do something new with [...]

June 19, 2016

Forget Rob Zombie – HALLOWEEN RETURNS Only Has Love For John Carpenter’s Michael Myers

Halloween Returns – that’s the new franchise reboot based on John Carpenter’s classic 1978 horror. The film will disregard the two Halloween films from Rob Zombie which were released in 2007 and 2009. The Zombie films were relatively [...]

June 18, 2015