I’ve been playing quite the tough guy recently with regard to horror films. I’ve been watching them with reckless abandon and poo-pooing any attempts to scare me as nonsense. A recent viewing of Paranormal Activity being a good example – it was terrifically dull and about as scary as mash potato.Read More
It’s quite a common occurance in horror films nowadays. A teenage girl starts acting all crazy, throwing things about etc. So the parents worry and call in a specialist, thinking that she’s just hormonal and next thing we know, her head is spinning and a priest is battling for her soul.Read More
Angelica (Cathrine Georges) is a typical high school girl with very typical high school problems. However like any other teenager she believes her trivial tribulations are the most important things in the world.Read More
Andrzej Zulawski’s 1981 feature, Possession became another victim of the Video Recordings act orchestrated by Mary Whitehouse and was banned in the United Kingdom for over a decade. Censorship rules aside, this injustice is particularly upsetting as it is a film that far transcends the caste of the ‘video nasty’.Read More
Horror cinema has a history, and within that history are certain key points that determined the direction in which it would take and ultimately, whether it would survive censorship. Video nasties from the 80’s were integral to the evolution of horror movies and one such video nasty is The Evil Dead.Read More