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Remembering Carrie Fisher

The great Carrie Fisher will forever be associated with the Star Wars movies. After all, Fisher played the iconic Princess Leia across six films in the George Lucas originated franchise. However, there was much more to Fisher than that one role. She [...]

December 27, 2021

Behind The Scenes: Ben Affleck, Charlize Theron & John Frankenheimer On The Set Of REINDEER GAMES

Director John Frankenheimer’s Reindeer Games (aka Deception) is a festive thriller starring Ben Affleck as an ex-con forced into robbing a casino at Christmas dressed as Santa Claus. Frankenheimer’s film makes the most of film’s [...]

December 19, 2021

Notebook Reviews: I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER

Jim Gillespie – 1997. I Know What You Did Last Summer is an enjoyable entry into the slasher movie stable. It’s no Halloween, but this has the requisite thrills and spills to entertain for an hour and a half. An update of the type of [...]

August 28, 2021

Notebook Reviews: SCREAM 3

Wes Craven – 2000 Scream 3 is an hugely enjoyable slasher movie – and one which also works quite well as a Hollywood satire. This third instalment of the Scream franchise sees Wes Craven back in the director’s chair, along with [...]

July 8, 2021

Uncovering Curiosities: Caitlin Koller’s 30 MILES FROM NOWHERE

When you see enough movies you get into the rhythm of certain genres and it’s often easy to guess what’s going to happen next. I can honestly say that director Caitlin Koller’s 30 Miles From Nowhere was a total surprise. You think you know [...]

January 25, 2021

Blu-ray Review: THE RAGE: CARRIE 2 Is A Belated 1990s Sequel To Brian De Palma’s Classic

Released during the post-Scream horror boom of the late 1990s, The Rage: Carrie 2 is a belated follow-up to Brian De Palma’s well regarded 1976 Stephen King adaptation. Katt Shea’s film lacks the freshness of De Palma’s Carrie but now 20 [...]

March 30, 2019

Review: 30 MILES FROM NOWHERE Is Full Of Surprises

February 24, 2019

Blu-ray Review: WHEN A STRANGER CALLS & WHEN A STRANGER CALLS BACK

/ The opening twenty minutes of Fred Walton’s When A Stranger Calls is as tense and edge-of-seat thrilling as cinema can get. The now iconic scene sees a young babysitter (Carol Kane) harassed by a series of mysterious telephone calls. It’s [...]

December 16, 2018

DVD Review: LAST GIRL STANDING Adds Something Fresh To The Slasher Movie

Horror movies have certain beats and certain rhythms that audiences have come to expect. One of these traditions is that any slasher movie usually ends with one final female who manages to escape the killer’s grasp. This is where [...]

July 28, 2016

First Look At New UK Slasher Movie FOX TRAP

Fox Trap is a new UK slasher movie that has just wrapped shooting. Jamie Weston directs this horror that harks back to classic genre movies like Curtains, Black Christmas and House on Sorority Row. Here’s the synopsis: After a terrible accident [...]

February 17, 2016

Here’s The New Mask For MTV’s SCREAM – The Producers Don’t Know What They Have

Scream is coming to MTV (remember when that stood for Music Television?). Here’s the new Ghostface mask that’ll have Edvard Munch screaming in his grave. I supposed they had to change it from the movies because… “The [original] mask is so [...]

June 6, 2015

SCREAM Series For MTV; Wes Craven To Direct Pilot

A Scream television series for MTV? I’m not quite sure that we need it, but Dimension seems to want to milk their franchises (Scream, Spy Kids, Scary Movie) for all they’re worth. The belated fourth instalment of Wes Craven’s horror franchise [...]

April 26, 2013