Inspired by film noir, Francesco Cinquemani and George Gallo’s thriller Eye for An Eye (also known as The Poison Rose) follows Carson Phillips (John Travolta), an ex-football star turned PI who takes on a missing person’s case.Read More
What do you get when you cross a group of young adults on a road trip with a deranged family who live in the woods? The answer is Butchers, a Canadian horror film that played at this year’s FrightFest. It’s not an original plot by any means, and it’s hard not to compare it to the […]Read More
Nuclear caught my interest immediately, with a synopsis featuring an ominous nuclear power plant and George MacKay on the cast list. After being blown away by his performance in 1917, I couldn’t wait to see him in the horror genre. In this film, he plays a nameless ‘boy’ who our protagonist meets after a traumatic event.Read More
Bloody Hell is a wild ride, with Rex (Ben O’Toole) finding himself in a very unfortunate situation straight off the bat. In the opening sequence we see him queuing up at the bank, only to be dramatically interrupted by a gang of masked robbers armed with guns. Admit the carnage, Rex finds himself able to […]Read More
This revival of 1962 sci-fi horror The Brain That Wouldn’t Die explores the question “has science gone too far?”. After Dr. Bill Cortner (Patrick D. Green) loses his fiancee Jan Compton (Rachael Perrell Fosket) in a car crash, he revives her severed head in the hopes of finding her a new body. But Jan is […]Read More
Horror films often explore real life themes such as family, grief, mental illness and much more. In Reunion, tensions are high from the very beginning as heavily pregnant Ellie (Emma Draper) reunites with her estranged mother Ivy (Julia Ormond) in her childhood home. It’s immediately obvious that their relationship is complex, as Ellie seems very […]Read More
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