The Magnificent Butcher is not as you may have guessed a slasher movie about a brilliant Sweeny Todd-esque killer who is particularly capable with a cleaver. It is in fact a classic Kung Fu movie starring the magnificent Sammo Hung and as you may have noticed or not this site has often bent its rules […]
Take a look at the films of everyone’s favourite screen superstar Nicolas Cage over the last ten years and one thing’s for sure… you do not want to enrage the Cage! The over-the-top actor has turned out a slew of unhinged performances, each one wilder than the last. As the old adage goes: an eye […]
Last year when I reviewed writer and director Tom Paton’s brilliant Black Site I ended by saying “Who knows what his wicked warped wonderful mind will create next.” The answer is Stairs which played this year’s FrightFest and yet again I was blown away by Paton’s pure creative force.
From Psycho to Shutter Island the murderous split personality has long-been a staple of dark thrillers and horror cinema. Now director David Raymond’s puts a new twist on the tried and tested multiple personality murderer formula with his darkly stylish crime thriller Night Hunter.
The wonderful thing about FrightFest is sitting in a darkened cinema with no idea about what you are about to watch and discovering something menacing and marvellous. This was the case with Freaks a Sci-Horror that brings a truly original spin on super powers.
The 1976 Kung-Fu movie Hand of Death is important for a number of reasons. Not only does it contain early performances from action movie legends Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung but it was written and directed by Wu Yu Sheng better known to Western audiences as John Woo.
