Looking for something gruesome and ghastly to watch this Halloween? Something to sicken you? Something to leave you whimpering in the corner, crying out for High School Musical? Well, Inside/À l’intérieur is the relentlessly grim movie for you.Read More
Pig Hunt promises many things: enormous killer pigs, hunting, rednecks, a small arsenal of weaponry, scantily dressed babes, and fields of marijuana (and that’s just the poster). It also follows in the footsteps of a very particular strain of American filmmaking, one that pits man against the elements, adventure against terror and the noble instincts […]Read More
A new horror film that isn’t a remake? A creature feature without gallons of CGI? The Burrowers is quite the breath of fresh air, and not only because it’s also a western. Yes, you read right. That’s fields, horses, men on the trail, Native Americans, period costumes and monsters.Read More
Wicked Little Things has a very important lesson to teach us all. Zombie/Ghost children are terrifying. It’s that simple. It doesn’t matter how hokey or obvious the plot, if you get your monster right then you will succeed in scaring the pants off your audience. It’s surprising how many horror filmmakers seem to neglect this.Read More
Does the world need more remakes of 70s horror films? I guess that’s really an irrelevant question, because it seems that they keep on rolling in, need or no. Before seeing this latest in a long line of remakes I was definitely heaving sighs of “no thanks”. Unfortunately, after watching it (in an empty, late […]Read More
Films like this often make me wonder why people still insist on putting things where they clearly shouldn’t be, building over psychiatric hospitals/Indian burial grounds/portals to hell and so on. I think we have enough evidence to just say, if something bad happened somewhere it should be levelled (certainly not investigated) before the land is […]Read More