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)

Forgive my tangent. As the resident reviewer of all things new and primarily DTV, I tend to pick out three new horror movies each week for review and eventual submission. Sadly this week two of my charges got pulled at the last minute – one of which was a new movie with Trent Hagga in… Read More Axe Giant (2013)

I think there’s some advice in the screenwriting handbook that says something to the degree of “write what you know”. Chris Sparling seems to have listened to that as fresh from scripting the taut claustrophobic thriller Buried which was of course predominantly set in a coffin, he’s back with a taut claustrophobic thriller set predominantly… Read More ATM (2012)