‘Stop Motion’ is an unnerving horror movie whose unique and striking visuals offer an equally unsettling abstract edge. The plot is simple, whilst the execution is both thought provoking and intricate. The movie opens as an elderly lady recruits her reluctant daughter to help her complete what would be her final stop motion animated film. […]
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‘The Exorcism’ sees Russel Crowe return to battle evil in a film whose intriguing meta concept is hampered by an inconsistent tone and poor quality of scares. The movie however, has an undeniably devilish plot with so much potential. It follows production on the set of a fictional remake of the classic ‘Exorcist’ movie. They […]
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Ti West’s ‘The Sacrament’ is perhaps a movie I could be accused of sleeping on somewhat. On revisiting for its 4K release I’m going to say it’s a far more effective movie than I perhaps gave it credit for upon its initial release. I’ve mentioned this in another review recently (Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum), but back […]
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‘Arcadian’ is a dystopian monster movie that packs an impressive amount into its lean runtime, leaning on strong performances to compliment some unique creature design, culminating in a coming-of-age drama with bite. The film opens at the end of the world. A weary Nicholas Cage makes his way along a ruined fortified wall, above it […]
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‘Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum’ has got all the ingredients to hit a horror homerun, and then some. Set in an abandoned asylum deep in the Korean countryside a team of influencers hope to achieve online fame by live-streaming a walkthrough and Seanance in the troubled derelict. There was a time about 10 years of so when […]
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We were famously told to stay off the moors in 1981 and for good reason, and whilst Chris Cronin’s ‘The Moor’ perhaps doesn’t hold quite the same level of threat as Landis’s Werewolf, it’s still just as good advice now as it was then. ‘The Moor’ a (very) slow burn piece of horror creeps its […]
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Despite its catchy but rather juvenile name ‘Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker’ (aka Night Warning) is a film somewhat ahead of its time with its challenging of social stereotypes and its inversion of the ‘final girl’ role. Despite it being somewhat swept aside given the tidal wave of early 80s slasher movies, there is a complexity […]
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Frank Hennenlotter, a name lost for over a decade returned in 2008, and I can tell you, he’d not lost a thing. Those of you familiar with his earlier works, ‘Basket Case’, ‘Frankenhooker’ and ‘Brain Damage’ will know, that he takes traditional cult horror ethos, and fucks it up further using his own twisted imagination. […]
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“That’s the way to do it” screeches the films titular slasher as he stalks a would be victim along the promenade of a dreary UK seafront. In some respects Andy Webster’s ‘Punch’ sort of does, but ultimately it perhaps shares more in common with modern folk horrors than contemporary slashers. The plot of the movie, […]
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Mel Brook’s classic spoof of an equally classic horror, allows a rough rehash of the story with almost each and every iconic scene ‘re-imagined’ through Brook’s comedic lens. If the original movie wasn’t already pretty goofy, re-watching it following ‘Young Frankenstein’ certainly hasn’t helped it seem any less. Set in the 1960s, the story opens […]
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