Hurt = Bad, Thrills = Good: The Contaminated Man (2000)
Matty’s thoughts on Anthony Hickox’s William Hurt-starring chase flick. … Read More Hurt = Bad, Thrills = Good: The Contaminated Man (2000)
Matty’s thoughts on Anthony Hickox’s William Hurt-starring chase flick. … Read More Hurt = Bad, Thrills = Good: The Contaminated Man (2000)
DTV Junkyard: Bastion of the maligned and champion of the neglected. With a clear remit that stipulates no screeners, no favours, and no kowtowing to film companies, the Junkyard was established in January 2015 to provide spin-free opinion on the UK’s direct-to-video industry. Here’s a handy index to discover each of the 327 schlocky delights… Read More The Junkyard Vault
Dave Wain’s essential breakdown of this week’s cavalcade of straight-to-disc treats. Step inside the DTV Junkyard… Annabelle (2014) has a lot to answer for. Although doll-themed horror movies have been a fixture in the genre since Ealing Studios’ Dead of Night (1945), the last few years have seen a real glut of miniature mayhem surfing… Read More DTV Junkyard 111
Dave Wain’s essential breakdown of this week’s cavalcade of straight-to-disc treats. Step inside the DTV Junkyard… ‘Tis the season to dust off those seasonal slashers and killer Krampii to curate a December packed with all your Christmas favourites. There was a real Post-Millennium lull of new festive frights to mix in with the classics, but… Read More DTV Junkyard 110
Dave Wain’s essential breakdown of this week’s cavalcade of straight-to-disc treats. Step inside the DTV Junkyard… There’s nothing quite like a new British DTV filmmaker in town to put a spring in the step of the Junkyard. Actually, such a cherry-popping introduction might overshadow the fact that Derby-native Anthony M. Winson has managed to create… Read More DTV Junkyard 109
Dave Wain’s essential breakdown of this week’s cavalcade of straight-to-disc treats. Step inside the DTV Junkyard… A couple of years ago, Michael and Gerald Crum succeeded in irritating the life out of me with their debut movie. A Haunting at Cypress Creek (2014), formerly Lake Fear elicited this venomous analysis: “Maybe three or four times a year,… Read More DTV Junkyard 105
Dave Wain’s essential breakdown of this week’s cavalcade of straight-to-disc treats. Step inside the DTV Junkyard… Luca Boni and Marco Ristori have been knee-deep in the murky world of low-rent zombie schlock for the best part of their career, pumping out a glut of Italian-lensed z-grade ode’s to the undead like Eaters (2011), Apocalypse Z… Read More DTV Junkyard 102
Dave Wain’s essential breakdown of this week’s cavalcade of straight-to-disc treats. Step inside the DTV Junkyard… So, the last gay lead character in a horror movie was? I’ll wait. I may be waiting a while, because it’s an outrageous oversight that seems to be in direct contradiction to the make-up of the general population. Wasn’t… Read More DTV Junkyard 99
Dave Wain’s essential breakdown of this week’s cavalcade of straight-to-disc treats. Step inside the DTV Junkyard… You have to agree that Scott Adkins has been the best thing to happen to DTV action movies in a long, long time. The forty year-old Brit has been in some of the most kick-ass actioners to grace the… Read More DTV Junkyard 93