Horror
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A notorious film for any number of reasons, from its numerous titles, spectacularly gruesome effects, ridiculous moments of action or inclusion on the Video Nasties list, Lucio Fulci’s Zombie Flesh… Read More
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After watching Prince of Darkness last night, my girlfriend demanded I show her more John Carpenter. Fortunately she has seen most of the director’s better films like Halloween, The Thing… Read More
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John Carpenter had a fantastic run of form, from his debut Dark Star in 1974, up until They Live in 1988. Just before that sci-fi action classic he made this… Read More
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The second title from Criterion’s Eclipse series When Horror Came to Shochiku is a step up from the first film in the four-disc set, but not by much. A plane… Read More
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Hugely entertaining adaptation of Isaac Marion’s novel about a lovestruck zombie called R (Nicholas Hoult) who falls for Julie (Teresa Palmer), a beautiful girl, whose father is leading the human… Read More
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Writer-director Jonathan Levine (50/50, The Wackness) does a pretty excellent job of adapting Isaac Marion’s novel, Warm Bodies, for the big screen. Nicholas Hoult (best remembered as the young lad… Read More
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Opening with a swift recap of the events of the 1974 original film, this latest entry reveals that an infant member of the cannibalistic Sawyer family survived and has now… Read More
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Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton star in Tommy Wirkola’s fantasy sequel to the classic Brothers Grimm fairytale. What looked and sounded like a dreadful idea from the outset turns out… Read More
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I arrived at Sacha Gervasi’s Hitchcock prepared for an underwhelming big screen depiction of the Master of Suspense during the making of his most famous film, Psycho. Muted praise and… Read More
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Written and directed by 18-year-old Emily Hagins, this low budget but smartly-observed horror comedy follows a group of high school graduates as they attend a geek convention, only to discover… Read More
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This Thai horror anthology is an early contender for worst film of 2013. Three different ghost stories from a trio of relatively new directors, fails to deliver scares, entertainment or… Read More
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I’m not an expert on American history. I’m not even American, and before tonight my knowledge of Abraham Lincoln didn’t stem far beyond acknowledging he was the tall dude with… Read More
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In the year 2089, archeologists Shaw (Noomi Rapace) and Holloway (Logan Marshall-Green) discover a series of matching symbols in various unrelated ancient sites around the world. They lead an interstellar… Read More
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Without a prominent blocbuster opening this week, distributors scrabble to release whatever they have left in their slate before the onslaught of summer behemoths arrives. As a result it is… Read More
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If there was any doubt that Tim Burton and Johnny Depp needed to stop working with each other and go and sit quietly on their own in a blackened room,… Read More
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As one of the territories deemed lucky enough to get THE AVENGERS last week, today sees a number of second tier titles open ahead of the summer madness. But the… Read More
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