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: Hellraiser Judgement
There’s a certain irony of being a Hellraiser franchise fan. The sadomasochistic themes of pleasure and pain is uncannily similar to the experience endured by Hellraiser fanatics, from the lofty Continue Reading
Review: What Lies Below
‘What lies below’? Too bad you never really find out… Taking cues from a range of modern and traditional genre movies ‘What lies Below’ delivers a simple but engaging ‘body Continue Reading
Review: Willy’s Wonderland
Five Nights at Nic’s. Watch Nicholas Cage face off against 8 possessed animatronic mascots in ‘Willy’s Wonderland; the genre sure loves it gimmicks, but is it any good? Let’s find 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: Wrong Turn (2021)
Wrong Turn: Right decision… Whilst ordinarily I wouldn’t be all that fussed about a re-boot of a franchise, which in itself was essentially a throwback series of sorts, there was Continue Reading
Review: The Owners
Predictable, yet expertly executed… ‘The Owners’ is another film promoting a fresh take on the home invasion genre. There have actually been quite a good number of movies which take 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...
