31 Days of Halloween Week 4 Reviewed
Doom Asylum (1987) Wow, this piece of 80s trash is my kind of what the fuckery. A group of overacting teens (including Sex & The City’s...
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31 Days of Halloween Week 3 reviewed
The Strangers: Prey At Night (2018) Week three of Halloween month kicks off with this mean-spirited, neon-drenched throwback slasher with...
31 Days of Halloween Week 2 Reviewed
The Lords of Salem (2012) Week 2 of 31 days of Halloween begins with The Lords of Salem. I’ve always thought of Rob Zombie as a talented...
31 Days of Halloween Week 1 Reviewed
Week one of October's Halloween watchathon is done. This week was all about first-time watches. There are still a few newer titles I want...
The Exorcist Believer: Review
50 years (50!) ago, William Friedkin’s horror classic The Exorcist was released upon an unsuspecting world, terrifying audiences,...
'The Stephen King Trifecta of 1983' article up now at Dread Central
A few weeks back, I had my first article on Dread Central: 'The Stephen King Trifecta of 1983: ‘Cujo’, ‘The Dead Zone’, and ‘Christine’,...
Review: Girls School Screamers (1986)
Girls School Screamers is nowhere as good as the various posters (funny that for a DTV 80s horror jam). The Vinegar Syndrome disc has 3...
Talk To Me (2022): new Oz horror classic lives up to the hype.
New Oz horror classic lives up to the hype.
A Life-Time of Loving 'John Carpenter's The Thing'
When it comes to my favourite films from years past, there are some I revisit more than others. These films are like comfort food, that...
Stay out of the Water: My lifelong love (and fear) of Jaws
Everyone remembers the first time they saw Jaws. Whether in a packed cinema in 1975 or later on television or VHS, most people have a...
NO ONE GETS OUT ALIVE (2021): a worthy spook-fest for the Halloween season
Four years ago, Netflix struck gold with The Ritual, a stunning slice of folk/backwoods horror with a dark emotional thread based on...
Giallo January
I managed to watch six films for Giallo January this year, mostly first-time watches. The tropes of the Giallo (black-gloved killer,...
The Case of the Scorpion’s Tale (1971)
Dipping my toes into the cool waters of #januarygiallo with this sweet little number from Sergio Martino, who knocked out a great run of...
Top 10 Films from 2022
Here's the Top 10 new films I watched last year, not really representative of all that was released or all I watched as I missed a lot of...
Deadstream (2022)
Best described as a YouTube Evil Dead, Deadstream is the good version of that description, thanks to the endearing performance of...
Bliss (2019)
I’ve been aware of director Joe Begos for a while, having heard him on a few podcasts over the years, but this is the first of his films...
Razorback (1984)
It’s waiting outside and it can sense your fear. No nightmare will prepare you for it! Razorback, Russell Mulcahy’s mid ‘80s Ozploitation...
Glorious (2022)
The universe has a favour to ask. • Shudder continues its winning streak this year with Rebecca McKendry’s cosmic horror comedy Glorious,...
Rome Armed To The Teeth (1976)
Umberto Lenzi sends supremely angry cop Maurizio Merli flying around Rome beating and shooting the shit out of every criminal in the city...
Mad God (2022)
Holy Shitting Giants! Mere words are not sufficient to describe this film. Mad God is one of those transcendent experiences that are hard...
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