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,...
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...
Halloween '18 / Kills / Ends
I know it’s probably not cool to admit liking these films, but I haven’t been cool my entire life and am not about to start now. 2018 is...
'90s horror DVD stash
I found this 90s horror quadriptych in the thrift store the other day. Truth be told, I was not into these post-Scream films back when...
ReConnect Aotearoa NZ Panel this Sunday 4th June
So this is very cool - this Sunday as part of the ReConnect Aotearoa NZ Fandom online convention, I will be chatting with writer...
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...
It was Saturday 9th June 2012…
Our friend ‘S’ had booked tickets to Prometheus in the Melbourne IMAX a month prior and had rallied the gang for the most anticipated...
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...
Talking John Carpenter & Halloween on Radio NZ
I had a great chat with Karyn Hay about Halloween & John Carpenter on Nights on RNZ National. Listen here:
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...
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