“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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‘The Cleansing Hour’, a lucrative and ‘Vatican licenced’ social media brand, puts an exorcism online for millions of viewers to see. Despite countless ‘effective’ exorcisms, numbers are however dwindling, with a toxic community more interested in the ‘hot priest’ or offering degenerate comments of what they’d like the demons to do to their possessed hosts, […]
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‘The Advent Calendar’ is an effective Christmas chiller, offering intrigue and some genuine chills as its unorthodox mystery unfolds. After receiving a creepy advent calendar as a gift from a friend, a wheelchair bound young lady faces a 24 days long series of moral dilemmas as she must make choices, some of which offer her […]
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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 […]
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Jigsaw’s back, both literally and figuratively in the franchises latest output ‘Saw X’. Benefitting from a lot more Tobin Bell in his iconic role of the murderous engineer ‘Jigsaw’, the film is something of a return to form after a couple of middling sequels seemed to cause the powerhouse franchise to run out of steam. […]
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‘The Price We Pay’ draws from the full gamut of horror/exploitation tropes and meshes them together into a movie which still manages to entertain, despites its familiar themes. The plot opens with our protagonist, Grace, whose day of struggling to pay bills only gets worse when the pawn shop she’s haggling in gets targeted by […]
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‘8 Found Dead’ is an interesting title, filled with great performances and a duo of antagonists who steal every scene they’re in – oddly are the ones you’re left routing for. The film’s timeline is not linear, chronologically at least, but essentially the film focusses on a remote rental property in the desert. With one […]
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I’ll accept it’s been a while now, and output has arguably slowed, but in their day the French had a bigger influence on horror modern horror than perhaps they are given recognition for. A cluster of films, of which this title forms a savage slice of the line-up, seemed to come out of left field […]
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‘Mad Heidi’, straight in there at #1, my favourite ‘Swissploitaiton’ movie. Deliciously cheesy, ‘Mad Heidi’ carefully negotiates that much coveted, all most un-obtainium space of being not only awesomely gory, genuinely witty and funny, but as a film it’s also, very easy to recommend to those viewers, who might not typically gravitate towards splatter movies. […]
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