I remember the release of Cabin Fever on DVD quite vividly all the way back in 2007. It was the first ever refund that was requested by a customer! He was quite passionate about it too, going into extreme detail about how I had conned him out of the princely sum of £2.50 and how… Read More Cabin Fever 3: Patient Zero (2014)

Kim Henkel – that’s a name to stir the admiration of a legion of fanboys and fangirls. Indeed, the writer of the Texas Chain Saw Massacre he’s best known as, though he also wrote the script for Tobe Hooper’s Eaten Alive (1977) and had an uncredited hand in underrated horror flick The Unseen (1980 –… Read More Butcher Boys (2012)

The market may be susceptible to a wobble from time to time in these pretty desperate days of continued austerity, but the consistency of some independent UK film companies continuing to release high grade lushly produced DVDs and blu-ray is cause for rampant celebration. With Masters of Cinema, Second Sight and Arrow firmly established as… Read More Bloody Birthday (1981)

I picked up my Troma DVD of Bloodsucking Freaks a number of years ago now, and I still haven’t seen it. I’ve watched pretty much all of Troma’s output – even Tales from the Crapper. Bloodsucking Freaks though? I don’t know what it is about that movie, it just has a general aura of unpleasantness… Read More Bloodsucking Freaks (1976)

I must admit I’m a sucker for films based in an isolated environment. The confinement, the psychological fragility it imposes and the adverse conditions all tend to add to the atmosphere of the movie. From the original Thing from Another World (1951), to Carpenter’s remake (1982) to Larry Fessenden’s The Last Winter (2006). In Blood… Read More Blood Glacier (2013)

We open here at an isolated family home where we meet parents Matt and Marilyn Smith (Richard Bekins and Betsy Aidem), their daughter Gloria (Alexandro Chando) and their son Quentin (Charlie Hewson). During the first few minutes we’re teased as to the reasons behind this family’s isolation with quotes like “small towns have long memories”… Read More The Bleeding House (2011)

In no time at all WWE studios seem to have collected a production catalogue of over 30 films, all with varying degrees of success. For every See No Evil (2006), there’s The Chaperone (2011), and with an upcoming slate that includes The Marine 4 and Jingle all the Way 2 – with Larry the Cable… Read More Barricade (2012)

Found footage. Two words that seem to instinctively lead every discerning horror fan to roll their eyes and offer a deep sigh. That’s unfair though as this reaction only stems from the marketplace being swamped in the last few years by inferior movies made solely to ride the coattails of the successful ones. Remember, for… Read More Banshee Chapter (2013)

A director using a pseudonym doesn’t fill you will confidence as you slide their latest offering into the DVD player. In this case its Rob ‘Wrong Turn’ Schmidt who has removed his name from this gorefest after it ran into trouble (or out of money) during filming way back in 2008. The film has a… Read More Bad Meat (2011)