Category FILM
DAY THREE is now upon us. Billed as the first horror film to come from Laos, Chantaly is a slow and ponderous ghost story in which a reclusive young woman with a heart condition is haunted by visions of her… Continue Reading →
Every November for the past 7 years, the horror faithful have descended upon Aberystwyth for the growing horror film festival that is Abertoir. Originally a three day festival, it has since spread out to a sprawling six, offering up… Continue Reading →
Growing up, every lovely part of nature was a threat. Forget all the cuddly animal stories if you read the books of Guy N Smith there was no safe ground and everything from crabs, lynx’s, bats, locusts, alligators, snakes were… Continue Reading →
Watching Slayer at a festival the other day and seeing them go through the motions playing all their classics I was suddenly reminded by the song ‘Dead Skin Mask’ that I had the pleasure of looking forward to watching Deranged… Continue Reading →
You may not recognise the name Larry Stewart but if you were growing up in the late 70’s early 80’s and liked genre television you no doubt watched some of the shows he was involved in. These included some real… Continue Reading →
If you suffer from arachnophobia this is a review best skipped as eight legged beasties and indeed two legged ones that are descending into the order of the Araneae lurk here. Spider Baby aka ‘Cannibal Orgy’ was made way back… Continue Reading →
We all have our horror stories involving wine right? I know I do. There was that time when…. yeah actually best not to share that one right here. How about horror films about wine though, that puts a whole new… Continue Reading →
Although by name Tinto Brass may sound like a cleaning product the films by the Italian director are quite the opposite and normally rather dirty. But that’s the way we like them! Born in 1933 he is still quite disrespectfully… Continue Reading →
The geek in me just loves reading about and watching documentaries about genre films so this was a no brainer that I was eager to get to grips with. Director Calum Waddell is well known to fans of horror movies… Continue Reading →
Cult Labs recently put together a timeline of peoples choices of best British Horror films and I eagerly threw mine straight in. These were The Wicker Man (Robin Hardy 1973) Blood On Satan’s Claw (Piers Haggard 1971) Psychomania (Don Sharp… Continue Reading →
This is indisputably a classic and one that is every much so as the band who took them name from it. I think it is even fair to say that it is respected by horror film scholars as much as… Continue Reading →
Kevin Connor started off his film making career with classic Amicus Anthology ‘From Beyond The Grave’ (1974). From there he went into Edgar Rice Burroughs fantasy fare and put Doug McClure well and truly on the map with the likes… Continue Reading →