Review: Silent Night Deadly Night
I remember watching this infamous festive shocker years and years ago on a pretty poor video transfer, and despite questionable picture quality it stuck in my mind as one of Continue Reading
Review: The Nights Before Christmas
Tis the season to be jolly, or not… ‘The Nights Before Christmas’ certainly chooses the latter delivering a thoroughly nasty Christmas slasher which will see you on the naughty list Continue Reading
Review: Leprechaun Returns
Ireland’s most prolific serial-quipper is back! Seemingly ignoring the ‘lep’s’ subsequent adventures (I mean he went to space in one of them – where do you go from there? ‘back Continue Reading
Review: Shrooms
Lacking in identity, clear direction, and effective scares/gore ‘Shrooms’ is by far the lesser of Paddy Breathnach’s two slasher entries unleashed last decade. ‘Shrooms’, a confusing hodgepodge of obvious influences Continue Reading
Review: The Candyman
Just when the youth of the world thought they could relax from just over a decade of ‘slashening’, 1992s ‘The Candyman’ throws a new stalker icon into the mix. Based Continue Reading
Review: Long Time Dead
Having seen this on release, I was curious to find out how Marcus Adam’s feature debut holds up after its 18 years in the wild. Coming in at the tail Continue Reading
Review: Maniac Cop
Before we even start on its content a big nod to the classic tagline: “You have the right to remain silent forever”. That isn’t where the film’s potential ends either. Continue Reading
Review: The Burning
Set for release in an outstanding looking steel book, Arrow remaster yet another 80s must-see classic slasher movies onto Blu-ray. If there was ever evidence needed as to the slasher Continue Reading
Review: All Through the House
After the first half an hour of ‘All Through The House’ it’s clear to see what it set off to achieve, an 80’s style slasher with plenty of nudity, a Continue Reading
Review: My Little Sister
If you were to divide the slasher genre into subsections you might agree with me that there are two main camps. The more traditional body count slashers, akin to 1980s 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...
