Review: Pitchfork
Emmy Award Nominated choreographer ‘Glenn Douglas Packard’s’ directorial debut Pitchfork has achieved some success on the festival circuit and for a debut feature is one of the more notable releases Continue Reading
Review: One Night of Fear
Brian Troxell dives right into 90s Slasher nostalgias with his latest film ‘One Night of Fear’. With complete disregard for any mainstream slasher etiquette (and indeed 21st century PC) Troxell Continue Reading
Review: Lake Alice
If I had quid for every time a press release landed in my inbox promoting a film promising to be a blood-soaked slasher like non-that have come before it, and Continue Reading
Review: Chain Letter
I am frequently asked by friends and family about the scoring here at BTG, specifically the differentiation between a ‘two-stars’ horror and a ‘three-stars’ horror. Now whilst our quality assurance Continue Reading
Review: Devil’s Domain
Devil’s Domain written and directed by Jared Cohen (The Horde, 2016) plays out a little like a teenage slasher with paranormal elements to it and whilst I rest assured it Continue Reading
Review: Ice Cream Truck
Brooding and atmospheric are seldom adjectives used to describe modern slashers, and so when one comes along which is not only both, but with a big emphasis on developed characters Continue Reading
Review: WTF!
As far as slasher movies go, Peter Herro’s ‘WTF’ is an easy one to get to grips with. Whilst not aiming to push any genre boundaries (indeed this is as Continue Reading
Review: The Altar
Lured in by the somewhat outstanding artwork on the poster for this title I sat-down one fine Saturday evening looking forward to what I hoped to be an intriguing found-footage Continue Reading
Review: Blessed are the Children
Director/producer Chris Moore takes us on a trip through late 70s early 80s off-beat slasher territory in the creepy stalk and slash ‘Blessed are the Children’. The slow burn slasher, Continue Reading
Review: Red Christmas
Without wanting to ruin my review with an outburst of opinion right in the opening line, but I was seriously impressed with ‘Red Christmas’ a slasher film with a real 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...
