Film :: Review 07 Nov 2008
Kevin McHugh: After the success of the little-seen but highly regarded Spanish horror [REC], it was only a matter of time before Hollywood brought out the remake. Jennifer Carpenter (star of TV show Dexter) is Angela, a news reporter sent with her cameraman Scott (S...
Film :: Review :: DVD Review 29 Sep 2008
Jack McFarlane: This is by and for the gore-hungry and genre-savvy demographic so dedicated to these straight to video zombie movies, but is unlikely to satisfy the more seasoned of the brood as blood and guts only feature as prominently as its zero budget will allow ...
Film :: Feature 26 Aug 2008
Paul Greenwood: Where did the idea for [REC] come from? The idea was to tell a classic horror story but using live TV language. Using this live report style, we wanted to reach a higher level of realism and credibility in order to increase the implication of...
Film :: Review 22 Aug 2008
Kevin McHugh: In The Strangers, a simple-enough plot revolves around a couple returning to their home in the country. But once back, their every move is watched, by strangers in the dark waiting to terrorise them on the longest nights of their lives. The climax may ...
Film :: DVD Review 07 Aug 2008
Lindsay West: For those of you who, like me, fondly remember '80s pop legends Bros as a formative part of your early sexual development, you might be interested to learn that chief percussionist, Luke Goss, is not dead. Apparently having spent his 15-year hiatus in ...
Film :: DVD Review 05 Aug 2008
Lindsay West: Probably made mindful only of those who thought the lesbian action in Buffy didn't quite go far enough, Vampire Diary is one of those wonderful British movies made thanks to the Hollyoaks school of the dramatic arts (see Donkey Punch): an am-dram cast ...
Film :: DVD Review 24 Jul 2008
Alastair Roy: A notebook falls from the sky into the path of too-cool-for-school law student Light (Fujiwara). Its opening page explains that if someone's name is written in it then they will die. Unconvinced and with a sneer, Light gives it a go. A hapless criminal...
Film :: Review 03 Jul 2008
Paul Greenwood: Not content with bringing us The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile, that greatest of all Stephen King interpreters, Frank Darabont, completes an astonishing hat-trick of King adaptations with The Mist. With a straightforward enough setup, residen...
Film :: Feature 25 Jun 2008
Jonathan Melville : Though there have been some classic movies based on King’s stories over the years, the sheer volume means that many are less than stellar. At the last count he has 108 writing credits on the Internet Movie Database, the number of Childr...
Film :: Review 20 Jun 2008
Kevin McHugh: Prepare to be bitten by the black comedy that is Teeth. Dawn, played by the fantastic Jess Weixler, is the leader of a local chastity group that lectures kids on how to keep their flies fastened until their wedding night. But when new boy in...
Laura Smith: Building a sense of genuine foreboding from the off, Olly Blackburn’s debut film sees three 'up-fer-it' Leeds lasses meet a group of posh boys working on board a luxury yacht and agree to join them for some holiday hedonism at sea. As horror film...
Paul Greenwood: The Appeared is exactly the kind of horror rubbish the Japanese and Koreans have been churning out for years – expect an American remake any day now. A Spanish brother and sister travel to Argentina to settle the affairs of their dying father and...
Film :: Review 18 Jun 2008
Kevin McHugh: Another month, another horror film full of beautiful people getting killed, though this time with a slightly different twist. Jonathan Tucker leads a scantily clad group through the Mexican jungle where they come across a Mayan temple guarde...
Games :: Review 23 Apr 2008
Graeme Strachan: Ethan Thomas is back. Can he get over his misfiring brain and chronic mentalism long enough to solve the mystery? More importantly, will there be plenty of dark rooms full of random homeless to twat with steel bars this time around? Unsurprisingly, the...
Film :: Review 01 Apr 2008
Paul Greenwood: Following on from the disappointing Cloverfield and the even worse Diary of the Dead comes the third in a recent rash of urban DIY horrors. Thankfully, the Spanish know how to make 'em far better than the Americans, and [REC] is a masterpiece. Taking p...
Film :: Review 16 May 2006
Caroline Hurley: There's something retch-inducingly postmodern about basing films on video games and yet here, at least, the premise has horror potential. A young mother takes her troubled adopted daughter to the ghost town of her birth, where a nightmare lies in wait....
Film :: Review 17 Mar 2006
Alec McLeod: A proper video nasty is like picking a scab; not big, clever, pretty or particularly healthy, but nonetheless a strangely pleasurable pain. 'Wild Country', a Scottish werewolf film with teen pregnancy issues, doesn't have the effects or style of Canadi...
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