[Film Review] DeadStream (2022)
Disgraced social media personality and vlogger Shawn Ruddy attempts to face his fear of ghosts and return to his former glory by live streaming himself spending the night in an infamous haunted manor house.
[Film Review] The Scary of Sixty-First (2021)
As a horror fan, if you’re looking for some fun Sunday night spookiness to switch on and switch off in front of, The Scary of Sixty-First (2021) is not for you.
[Film Review] Bite (2022)
A film that can be considered a cross between Snatch and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre sounds like a pretty good deal, and overall, director James Owen’s Bite takes bits from each film in a manner that doesn’t entirely feel like a retread, but also doesn’t quite hit the mark of an original genre film.
[Film Review] Two Thousand Maniacs (1964)
Two Thousand Maniacs (1964) from The Shudder Herschell Gordon Lewis Collection
[Film Review] The Blood of the Dinosaurs (2021)
An opening sequence almost too fitting for this type of film comically enters the screen as an actor of this very project asks writer-director Joe Badon, “what the hell is your movie about?”
[Film Review] Sissy (2022)
This year sees the UK premiere of some incredible looking female-fronted horrors: Candyland in the vein of 70s exploitation movies exploring the underground world of truck stop sex workers; Piggy a tale of one girls revenge against her bullies; and The Harbinger which focuses on two best friends supporting each other through the horrors of the pandemic and beyond – to name but a few.
[Film Review] Barbarian (2022)
One of the most anticipated titles of the year was the UK premiere of Zach Creggers Barbarian. The trailer released back in June was pretty vague – a young woman (Tess Marshall played by Georgina Campbell) – arrives at a house she has rented out on Airbnb only to find that the key has already been taken and a man named Keith (Bill Skarsgard) has already checked in.
[Film Review] Snake Girl and the Silver Haired Witch (1968)
The child’s point of view can be a powerful tool in horror.
[Film Review] Crimes of The Future (2022)
Humans adapt to a synthetic environment, with new transformations and mutations. …
[Film Review] Blood Feast (1963)
Blood Feast from The Shudder Herschell Gordon Lewis Collection
[Film Review] Rawhead Rex (1986)
Rawhead Rex is a 1986 fantasy horror written by Clive Barker.
[Film Review] Making Off (2012)
The beauty of extreme films can often be found in their ability to blur the realms of fiction and reality, allowing the viewer to immerse themselves in a world so corrupt, so heinous it can provoke a physical reaction.
[Film Review] The Retaliators (2021)
The Retaliators feels like two movies wrapped into one…
[Film Review] Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022)
Now, for the Gen-Z set, Bodies Bodies Bodies twerks its way onto the scene with some of the funniest, smartly written, TikTok-fueled young adults to get hacked and slashed.
[Film Review] Orphan: First Kill (2022)
It’s been 13 years since Esther (Isabelle Fuhrman) first terrorized audiences in 2009’s Orphan and now Esther the murderous maniac with a glandular disorder is back in Orphan: First Kill, a prequel directed by William Brent Bell (Stay Alive, The Boy).
[Film Review] The Feast (Gwledd)
Before launching into this review, it feels important to note that The Feast is the first Welsh-language film to enter cinemas in five years.
[Film Review] Glorious (2022)
It isn’t easy to pull off the single location horror film with any real sense of tension and dread.
[Film Review] Ultrasound (2021)
Ultrasound (2021) is an intriguing watch, keeping you on your toes, allowing you to fall for its understated approach to a high concept plot before throwing revelations thick and fast after revealing a couple of plot twists, leaving you reeling with the same thoughts as its three protagonists; how do you know what is real?
[Film Review] Incantation (2022)
Well wishes and blessings are not only culturally expected, but are expressed without a second thought, even by those who don’t believe in any form of divine energy.
[Film Review] Mad God (2021)
Mad God is a bleak, visually arresting journey into a world of madness, suffering and violence, filled with ‘Miltonesque’ monsters and villains
