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)

When Solo opens, we find Gillian (Annie Clark) receiving counselling off a psychotherapist. We learn straight away that she had a predilection for self-harming, but that her new job should hopefully provide her with the focus to turn her life around. This new role is as a camp counsellor, a position that one of her… Read More Solo (2013)

The Dude Designs lead me to Almost Human when he linked to an article where his poster of the film was hailed as one of the best of 2013 by Bloody Disgusting. It’s such an amazing poster too as it evokes that rose-tinted period of 80s video store awesomeness where almost every film just looked… Read More Almost Human (2013)

Eli Roth. For some reason he’s become that latest addition to the ‘group of intense fanboy hatred’, which for the uninitiated is a small yet omnipresent collection of fanboys that really REALLY despise him and make it known as often as possible. (For previous members see Kevin Smith). A glance at Eli’s imdb message board… Read More Aftershock (2012)

“It’s like vinyl – it sounds different, it looks different. Now we’re older we want to go back to the way we first experienced it”. Perry Horton – Movie Madness. VHS was my first movie watching format, but being the fickle, easily led soul that I am I fell for DVD the minute it came… Read More Adjust Your Tracking (2013)