Category: Creature

Nolfi’s latest creature feature, Elevation, boasts some impressive vistas, an interesting premise, and a handful of likable characters. However, it ultimately falls short due to its generic story and uninspired creature design. The film’s concept is straightforward yet effective. Set in a world where monstrous creatures lurk below 8,000 feet, Elevation follows a group of […]

‘‘There’s ‘Something in the Water’, teen horror meets shark attack flick and to no surprise, the outcome is exactly what you think it would be. Take a group of hapless teens and dump them in the middle of shark infested waters and you’ve got this movie. Quirky, hip and even at times amusing, with some […]

‘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 […]

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 […]

With ‘Crawl’ Aja does for basements and alligators, what Niel Marshall did for the sub-terrain and cave creatures. An almost perfect blend of creature feature with a slasher sentiment, ‘Crawl’ is well worth your time if you’re a fan of either genres. The plot is deceptively simple. A young lady goes looking for her estranged […]

Fun but seriously goofy, ‘The Lair’ sees Neil Marshall dig deep for influences within his own filmography to unleash some more hellish monster mayhem, this time upon an unsuspecting US marine unit in Afghanistan. Right from the opening of this movie, a brief sequence of aerial combat high in the skies above Afghanistan the film […]

‘Crucible of the Vampire’ is a new release UK film and, if classic horror stories are your thing, it’s easy to recommend. The film opens with a period themed introduction as we are thrown back into Britain’s dark-age history, a time of corruption, paranoia and swift judgement for anyone society deemed an outcast. In this […]

“Get these Snakes off my Mutha-Fuxkin’ plane” shouts Sammy L, concluding the unlikely 2006 hit ‘Snakes on a Plane’. Well, seems like one snake did indeed follow Jackson’s command, dropping 35,000 feet straight into the heart of gangland – Compton, California. Sadly, it didn’t survive the fall, but an egg did. Discovered then by mad-scientist […]

Boar, AKA giant CGI pig vs. giant (non-digital) Nathan Jones, is a creature feature from down under which pitches the residents of a small town against the titular Boar. Far from Boar-ing (last time I promise), this film manages to cram likable characters, awesome natural backdrops and some brutal kill scenes into a somewhat surprising […]

Continuing the themes of festive frighteners killer Elves join the roster of Christmas killer critters, well at least possessed human versions of such. The plot of Elves follows a group of friends who end up in an odd and ill-fated game which involves the bane of children everywhere – the Naughty list. In a somewhat […]