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The home of film critics Matty Budrewicz and Dave Wain who, for the best part of a decade, have parlayed their shared, lifelong obsession with horror, B-movies, and direct-to-video shenanigans into a writing career.

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DTV Junkyard 3

Dave Wain’s essential breakdown of this week’s cavalcade of straight-to-disc treats. Step inside the DTV Junkyard… After last weeks’ sordid orgy of DTV goodness that satisfied a winter of virtual celibacy, this week represents more of a post-coital worrisome look under the duvet towards what lies beneath. That’s not to say it’s a weary trudge,… Read More DTV Junkyard 3

August 29, 2016November 4, 2017 Dave WainLeave a comment

DTV Junkyard 2

Dave Wain’s essential breakdown of this week’s cavalcade of straight-to-disc treats. Step inside the DTV Junkyard… After last weeks’ sordid orgy of DTV goodness that satisfied a winter of virtual celibacy, this week represents more of a post-coital worrisome look under the duvet towards what lies beneath. That’s not to say it’s a weary trudge,… Read More DTV Junkyard 2

August 28, 2016November 4, 2017 Dave WainLeave a comment

DTV Junkyard 1

Dave Wain’s essential breakdown of this week’s cavalcade of straight-to-disc treats. Step inside the DTV Junkyard… After a period of genre movie starvation that seems to dog the final two months of each year that passes, the first week of January opens with a lush supply of direct to video goodness that quenches the thirst… Read More DTV Junkyard 1

August 26, 2016November 5, 2017 Dave WainLeave a comment

Killjoy’s Psycho Circus (2016)

Dave sticks Full Moon’s latest clown-sploiter on the slab.… Read More Killjoy’s Psycho Circus (2016)

July 1, 2016June 16, 2020 Dave WainLeave a comment

The Los Angeles Ripper (2011)

Troma are renowned for the quality (be it Troma quality) of their in-house productions, the latest – Return to Nuke ‘Em High Volume 1 comes to UK DVD in July. Their acquisitions however vary quite dramatically from the woeful (mentioning no names) to the pretty damned fine, for example Killer Nerd (1991), Cannibal! The Musical… Read More The Los Angeles Ripper (2011)

March 25, 2016November 17, 2017 Dave WainLeave a comment

Kiss of the Damned (2012)

I’ve always had a love/hate relationship with vampire movies. Growing up I was spellbound by the terrifying glare of Bela Lugosi in the classic Universal Horrors, while The Lost Boys (1987) came out when I was ten and proved to be a defining movie in my adolescence. Meanwhile I have to confess Blade (1998) didn’t… Read More Kiss of the Damned (2012)

March 24, 2016November 17, 2017 Dave WainLeave a comment

John Dies at the End (2012)

The great Don Coscarelli created Phantasm, one of my favourite horror series of all time, and in recent years has been lauded for bringing Joe Lansdale’s novella to the screen in the cult-tastic Bubba Ho-Tep. His new film, John Dies at the End keeps him in Bubba’s territory of the trippy scenario as he adapts… Read More John Dies at the End (2012)

March 22, 2016November 17, 2017 Dave WainLeave a comment

Jack’s Motel (2012)

I’m of the age where Corey Feldman still represents cool. The star of such iconic 80s movies like The Goonies (1985), Stand By Me (1986) and of course The Lost Boys (1987) will always be the Corey of 25 years ago irrespective of what kind of b-movies he shows up in nowadays. Besides, The Lost… Read More Jack’s Motel (2012)

March 21, 2016November 17, 2017 Dave WainLeave a comment

Into the Dark (2012)

A common attribute of film distributors is an ability to be incredibly cunning – and I mean that in a nice way. Metrodome have this little chiller, billed as coming from the director of Breaking Dawn (which it is) and no doubt they’ll see the sales charts spike immediately as a couple of thousand bored… Read More Into the Dark (2012)

March 20, 2016November 16, 2017 Dave WainLeave a comment

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