Possession horror gets a gory refresh in this audacious Argentinian shocker rich with folklore and unflinchingly brutal set pieces. Two brothers, Pedro and Jimmy, uncover a bloated human tumour known as a “Rotten” being harboured…
Review
Shudder Review – Perpetrator (2023)
Not quite the rollercoaster ride through bleak teenage angst as one might expect from the opening stanza when introduced to a myriad of misery as outspoken, staunch, Jonquil ‘Jonny’ Baptiste (Kiah McKirnan) is sent to…
Blu-ray Review – Creepshow Series 1-3 Box Set (2023)
For those unaware or unsure about the quality of Shudder, the world’s foremost horror streaming service then you may be missing out. That’s because amongst all the random offerings which may not be to everybody’s…
Shudder Review – Quicksand (2023)
Snakes, why did it have to be snakes? except it’s only one! Marital conversations under duress and medical procedure in the mud are what you get from an estranged couple trapped in a sinkhole of…
Shudder Review – Skinamarink (2023)
Ever since Blair Witch, Paranormal Activity, horror films with micro-budgets started to be taken more seriously. The big studios in hunt for the next thing had their eyes open very wide. 2022, Kyle Edward Ball’s…
Shudder Film Review- Moloch (2022)
Creepy, unusually captivating, not going where I thought it was heading. A Netherlands heartstopper, with terrifying performances all round helping Moloch build to an excruciatingly shocking, baroque finale. Another winning Shudder original. Single mum, unassuming…
Shudder Film Review – Revealer (2022)
An adult only Chicago book shop incorporating a peep show ‘out the backrooms’ is the workplace for amateur exotic performer Angie (Caito Aase) whom after an apocalyptic event, is forced to join forces with Sally…
Film Review – The Sadness (2021)
Steel yourself for the blood-spattered death of morality and the rise of animalistic gratification in the most profoundly violent movie experience of the year. An alternate version of Taiwan has been under the cloud of…
Shudder Film Review – Virus: 32 (2022)
Location is king in this beautifully crafted high concept survival horror from Uruguay. After fucking up in the co-parenting stakes, abrasive security guard Iris is left with no choice but to take her daughter Tata…
Film Review – Night’s End (2022)
The latest film from filmmaker Jennifer Reeder revels in its one location setting, bringing to mind the induced isolation of the pandemic. Night’s End is set entirely within the apartment of Ken Barber, a reclusive…
Glasgow Frightfest – Film Review – Night’s End (2022)
Ken Barber has cocooned himself inside his new apartment as a result of his extreme anxiety disorder. Interacting with the few people in his life by video chat his only tactual company comes from taxidermied…
Film Review – The Seed (2021)
Once in a lifetime meteor shower causes all matter of chaos and eventual cataclysm for a girls weekend away at a beautiful isolated house in the Mojave Desert. Outstanding and lavish trio. Deidre (Lucy Martin),…
Film Review – Hellbender (2021)
Teenage wildling Izzy lives with her mother in the depths of the Catskill woodlands. Cocooned from social interaction due to an immune system disorder, she spends her days hiking, swimming, drawing, and smashing out dark…
Shudder Film Review – Dead & Beautiful (2021)
Lulu and her circle of friends represent the next generation of the richest families in Taiwan. Heirs to unimaginable fortunes they take “turns” in curating spectacularly hedonistic, sometimes cruel, nighttime adventures for each other. Targeted…