I had always harboured fond memories of Dario Argento’s 1982 slasher flick, as it was the very first of his films I ever saw. I had not rewatched it until now, and must confess I remembered precious little about it save for John Saxon and the famous arm-slicing scene. The sad truth is that the […] Read more »
Juno Mak’s directorial debut is a moody revivial of the quintessentially Hong Kong hopping vampire films of the 1980s. Assembling a cast of horror veterans, headed by Chin Siu Ho, Anthony Chan Yau and Paw Chee Hing, the film is the story of a washed up actor who moves into a dilapidated apartment building, intent […] Read more »
Right in the middle of his golden period, John Carpenter gave us this entertaining ghost story about a small coastal town founded atop a leper colony that is enveloped in a chilling fog that brings with it the malevolent souls of dead pirates. Adrienne Barbeau is the town’s late night radio DJ, while scream queen […] Read more »
James Wan’s most interesting and artistically successful film since the original Saw goes back to basics, delivering an incredibly effective haunted house tale, with some added ghost hunter fun thrown in for good measure. Perhaps because of the infuriating Insidious films, which Wan directed either side of this similar yet superior period effort, Wan has […] Read more »
A pinnacle of sorts in the world of bizarro Euro-horror that manages to stand alone as a singular work of such courage, confidence and baffling derangement that once seen it is not easily forgotten. Sam Neill stars as a paranoid husband who sets out to follow his wife (Isabelle Adjani), who is behaving increasingly strangely […] Read more »
There’s been a trend, in recent years, to play the Zombie Apocalypse for laughs. While Shaun Of The Dead and Go Goa Gone do this well, the pick of the bunch, for me, is this smart and original 2009 comedy Zombieland, directed by Ruben Fleischer. Originally conceived as a TV Show, Zombieland was Fleischer’s first […] Read more »
Rigor Mortis is Juno Mak’s debut as a feature film director. Mak, known for acting in and co-writing Revenge: A Love Story (2010) has chosen to make a homage to the 80s Chinese “geung see” (Mr Vampire) films. Mak also wrote the film and co-produced it alongside Takashi Shimizu, director of Ju-on and it’s English […] Read more »
Quite possibly the weirdest film I’ve seen all year, which one would think would be reason enough to warrant some kind of recommendation. However, after a pretty gonzo horror-fuelled opening that sees the disembodied head of a female demon set up shop in a remote Malaysian village, the film takes a bizarre turn as the […] Read more »
Excellent Spanish thriller that takes two seemingly separate story strands and sends them hurtling towards each other with predictably shocking, tragic consequences. In the Spanish countryside on the eve of the civil war, a group of children who can feel no pain are confined to an asylum after being deemed a danger to themselves and […] Read more »
After months reading about Richard Raaphorst’s Nazi era found footage zombie movie, I was rather underwhlemed by the whole experience. The central conceit, in which a young Russian soldier is ordered to document the mission of his squad, which happens upon a remote lab where the deranged Dr. Frankenstein’s journal is being used as a […] Read more »
Of interest almost solely because of a rare acting performance from Alejandro Jodorowsky, this Italian psychodrama proves a baffling, underwhelming dud. As our heroine battles depression and an incredibly frustrating and overbearing boyfriend, she leaves their kinky S&M infused city life to stay with her aunt in a creepy old country house. There the ghosts […] Read more »
Utterly ridiculous and hokey, but not without plenty of charm and enthusiastic splatter, this Filipino horror sees an orphaned actress tormented by the titular demonic appliance. People and pets are killed in their scores, dragged to their chilly demise by giant tentacles, but then diligently preserved in glass jars inside said fridge. Like I said, […] Read more »
While certainly entertaining, I’m baffled that some people hold Joe Dante’s film in the same high regard as John Landis’ An American Werewolf in London, or contend that the make up and transformation sequences are in any way comporable. For me, Landis’ film is such an incredible film on so many levels that I was […] Read more »
Ben Wheatley’s latest is an incredibly bold, baffling, beautiful and quite brilliant period horror flick that follows a group of deserting civil war soldiers as they get embroiled in a psychedelic power struggle in…well…a field in England. Read more »
The rumours are true. Sharknado is far more entertaining than it has any right to be. The story is completely ridiculous, the effects are passable but a long way from being cutting edge and the performances vary wildly from a pretty decent Ian Ziering as the heroic lead, to a washed up John Heard playing […] Read more »
Typically ridiculous zombie movie from Lucio Fulci that is also the second part of his unofficial “Gates of Hell” trilogy. There isn’t much in the way of a plot – a young woman inherits a hotel in Louisiana, where a suspected warlock was murdered many decades before. His death opened a portal to Hell in […] Read more »
First of two 3-part horror anthologies adapting the stories of acclaimed Hong Kong author Lilian Lee. Read more »
Michael comes to visit his friend, Chris, who is holed up in a dilapidated shack in the middle of nowhere, his life gone the way of the dogs thanks to his crippling meth addiction. In an effort to get him clean, Michael takes him prisoner, only to discover that there are other forces at work […] Read more »
Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga play real life supernatural detectives Ed and Lorraine Warren in this straight up old school possession horror film. Director James Wan weaves a familiar yet well told tale of a beautiful young family who move into a charming but malevolently possessed old New England home. With solid performances all around […] Read more »
I remember catching this on TV very late one night, as a young impressionable teen. At the time, the sight of a scantily glad Amanda Donohoe was enough to set my pulse racing, but revisited a good 20 years later there’s not much real excitement here. Despite the film’s good pedigree – directed by Ken […] Read more »