It seems you can’t swing an axe around without hitting yet another grimy, gory, grindhouse throwback that’s springing up on streaming services everywhere. It’s a
Tag: Horror
The Silence Of The Lambs (1991) – Review
There are a fair few genres that the Oscars have routinely turned their nose up, with Fantasy, Action and Horror rarely getting the nod when
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Maybe it’s my advancing years, but a sub-genre I’ve really found myself gravitating toward is the oddly gentle horror/comedy. Completely unsure of what that means?
Bride Of Re-Animator (1989) – Review
Sequels to genuine horror originals are a predictably mixed bag and surely only a madman would attempt to follow up the late Stuart Gordon’s magnificent
Phantasm II (1988) – Review
Don Coscarelli may not be a household name when it comes to cinematic purveyors of fright – not as much as John Carpenter and George
The Thing (1982) – Review
John Carpenter very well may be one of the beloved genre filmmakers walking this earth and after a quick glance at his filmography (especially during
Train To Busan (2016) – Review
In many ways, the zombie genre over the last twenty years has behaved much like zombies themselves. Uncontrollably spreading in number like a virus and
47 Meters Down: Uncaged (2019) – Review
Back in 2017, the orginal 47 Meters Down helpfully warned us of the dangers of cage diving when Matthew Modine is running the show and
The Visit (2015) – Review
After a seemingly endless string of movies that turned out to be boring, dopey or just outright awful, it seemed that Hollywood twist fanatic M.
Man-Thing (2005) – Review
Any of you that ever read the magazine Toyfair back in the days of print will no doubt be familiar with the humorous comic strip
A Nightmare On Elm Street (2010) – Review
After Michael, Jason and Leatherface all had shiny new updates all throughout the noughties (Chucky trailed behind and got one in 2019 whereas Pinhead never
Freddy Vs. Jason (2003) – Review
“Vs” movies are nothing new; ever since Frankenstein met the Wolf Man Hollywood has been finding ways to sling two opposing characters from different movies
Pitch Black (2000) – Review
Vin Diesel – arguably in the top three for action’s premier muscular slap-head – boasts quite a few characters in his resume but I’ve always
Jigsaw (2017) – Review
After a hiatus, John Kramer (a.k.a. The Jigsaw Killer, a.k.a. didn’t that guy die back in part 3?) has returned despite no one really asking
Candyman: Farewell To The Flesh (1995) – Review
Back in the day, I often wondered why Clive Barker’s hook wielding, bee spitting, romantic gut-splitter we all know as the Candyman never became one
Fantasy Island (2020) – Review
The concept of taking an old cult TV show and flipping the genre around is nothing new. Just take such movies such as 21 Jump
The Invisible Man (2020) – Review
After Tom Cruise’s 2017 brush with The Mummy failed to jump start Universal’s Dark Universe – an MCU style franchise of connected films that was
Color Out Of Space (2019) – Review
I’ve mentioned elsewhere on this site about the difficulty hollywood has had in trying to visualise the unearthly works of Howard Phillips Lovecraft (H.P. to
Candyman (1992) – Review
It’s always been stunning to me that the many and varied works of Clive Barker hasn’t managed to produce more timeless cinematic horror classics than
Hardware (1990) – Review
Back in 1990 Richard Stanley was poised to a bold new voice in genre filmmaking as he launched his low budget, nihilistic, trippy, sci-fi horror
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