Review: The Reckoning
Hold on to your pitchforks as Marshall’s ‘The Reckoning’ takes us on a 17th Century tour of ye olde misogyny in a solid enough, yet somewhat thematically confused film centred Continue Reading
Review: The Night
A glossy, well structured, yet familiar feeling debut from Kourosh Ahari, ‘The Night’ pits a young Iranian family against their own demons, whilst trapped in the foreboding Hotel Normandie. Taking Continue Reading
Review: Reunion
Slow, difficult to watch, but at times, utterly compelling, ‘Reunion’ might present itself as the slowest of burns, but with its plot dealing with hard hitting topics of abuse, psychological Continue Reading
Review: Sacrifice
Perhaps a coincidence, but since the rousing success of Aster’s ‘Midsommar’ I’ve seen quite a number of aptly dubbed ‘folk’ horrors crop up. In the case of ‘Sacrifice’, genre favourite Continue Reading
Review: Awoken
Despite being immediately comparable in style, theme and even location to chiller favourite ‘The Autopsy of Jane Doe’, Aussie creeper ‘Awoken’ might do just enough to stand on its own Continue Reading
Review: The Banishing
Christopher ‘Creep’ Smith returns to classic horror roots in the haunted house movie ‘The Banishing’. As haunted house movies go, this is a strong entry scoring favourably on all technical Continue Reading
Review: The Vigil
Tense and confident, the Jewish themed chiller ‘The Vigil’ delivers some meticulously crafted scares within its interesting, yet slightly underdeveloped story. The films setup is so simple, but man is Continue Reading
Review: Host
Finally, a ‘found footage’ style film which delivers against its hype; and one I encourage you to make an effort to see. Set (and filmed I believe) in the recent Continue Reading
Review: Woman in Black 2
A gorgeous looking sequel to the 2012 film, with an authentic story also written by Susan Hill, the author of the original novel ‘The Woman in Black’. For those not Continue Reading
Review: Countdown
In the mood for an early 2000s teen supernatural slasher (think ‘Final Destination’ et al) then ‘Countdown’ is far from a bad choice. I will accept that turn-of-the-century horror isn’t Continue Reading
Categories
- Enjoying something of a resurgence of late, within this Spooktacular category you will find all manner of films providing jumps and jolts from those entities who linger beyond the grave. Consider your spine well and truly tingled.
- Monsters and mayhem! Vampires, Werewolves - anything with teeth, claws, scales or fur. If it kills, you will find it here.
- Some of horror's most celebrated directors cut their teeth in the genre. Named after the yellow stickers on genre novels 'Giallo' movies shoot to thrill. We've also banged in other assorted thrillers into this eclectic genre collection.
- "Rip, and cut, and mutilate the innocent! His friends, and again, and again". A category that needs no introduction to horror fans. Baby sitter? Coed? Virgin? - better stay away.
- Something of a guilty pleasure, films found behind this suitably gore spattered button represent the limits of the horror genre - and more often than not, those of good taste to! View discretion is advised.
- “WHEN THERE'S NO MORE ROOM IN HELL, THE DEAD WILL WALK THE EARTH" - from Romero and Fulci to modern classics, we got you covered. Better check your brain out before viewing though...
