Deathgasm. That name conjures up a myriad of things in your mind. A myriad of things that Deathgasm probably contains in its short, but packed, 90 minutes running time. From death by dildo, decapitations, eviscerations,…
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Film4 Frightfest 2015 Review – Madman (1982)
Joe Giannone’s 1982 film Madman arrived amidst the early 80’s boom in slasher pictures. John Carpenter’s Halloween popularised the “Teens stalked by Murderous Madman” narrative in ‘78, then Sean S. Cunningham’s Friday 13th brought the…
DVD Review – Awaiting (2015)
Lauren,played by talent show singer Diana Vickers(The Perfect Wave),is a naive yet deeply endearing young woman who’s entire life has been manipulated and controlled by her over protective father Morris,played with career defining relish…
Film4 Frightfest 2015 Review – Frankenstein (2015)
Helmed by Bernard Rose, still best known for Candyman, this new take on Frankenstein explores the classic tale from the perspective of the monster rather than the scientist – recapturing what was so great about…
Film4 Frightest 2015 Review- Future Shock! Story Of 2002AD (2015)
The latest in a long-line of pop-culture documentaries that capture the zeitgeist of their particular subject matter, Future Shock! The Story of 2000AD tells the story of the UK science-fiction comic that changed the face…
Film4 Frightfest 2015 Review – The Entity (2015)
I don’t know whay i punish myself sometimes… You probably all know I’m not a fan of found-footage horror movies, usually because filmmakers use the concept as a lazy way of generating tension and scares.…
Film4 Frightfest 2015 Review – The Sand (2015)
After an all-night graduation beach party, a group of hung-over students wake up under blazing sun to find their numbers somewhat depleted. An enormous alien creature has burrowed down deep and anyone foolish enough to…
Film4 Frightfest 2015 Review – Wind Walkers (2015)
From the films from actor/writer/director Russell Friedenberg that I have seen, it seems – at least to me – like he has a fascination with three things: Native American culture; the human psyche and the…
Film4 Frightfest 2015 Review – Bloodsucking Bastards (2015)
Horror and comedy have always gone hand in hand. Laughs often alleviate the tension and who doesn’t crack a smile at the goriest, over the top scenes of horror? But the true horror-comedy, a purposeful…
Film4 Frightfest 2015 Review – POD (2015)
Ed and Lyla are so worried about their psychologically unstable brother Martin they head to the family cabin in the woods to stage an intervention. What greets them is a raving paranoid individual rambling about…
Film4 Frightfest 2015 Review – Aaaaaaaah! (2015)
Two men step over a fallen branch in a damp, overgrown wood. The larger of the two stops to examine a framed picture of a woman in a wedding dress before the pair unzip their…
Film4 Frightfest 2015 Review – Worry Dolls (2015)
It’s been quite some time since I saw Padraig Reynolds’ debut feature Rites of Spring back at Glasgow Frightfest 2012 and since then Reynolds has been pretty silent on the directing front. However, being a…
Film Review – Howl (2015)
The myth of the shape-shifting wolf stems chiefly from Native American folklore as depicted in the now incinerated Henry MacRae short film The Werewolf (1918).It was not until 22 years later that the hard and fast rules of…
Film4 Frightfest 2015 Review – We Are Still Here (2015)
As a kid growing up in the 80s there were only a handful of women who, at least for this young horror fan, could sell a film on their name alone. For T&A terror it…