Oh boy, where to start with ‘The Campus’, last year’s indie entry sharing the same concept as ‘Happy Death Day’ is a genre mash-up offering an incoherent, yet at times blood soaked spin on the Groundhog Day plotline. Synopsis:Robert Wainwright dies after breaking his deal with the Devil, passing that debt onto his estranged daughter […]
Continue Reading‘Painkillers’ is an original and well-put-together horror-thriller which sees a surgeon by the name of John Clarke (Adam Huss) develop a condition, triggered by his own guilt over the loss of his son, for which the only treatment is the continual ingestion of human blood. With John being something of a honest gent – the […]
Continue ReadingTake all the components out of the successful ‘Blumhouse formula handbook’ and then add in a hard-hitting emotional ending and you’ve got ‘Still Born’ the debut feature from director Brandon Christensen. ‘Still Born’ follows the harrowing story of young mother ‘Mary’ (Christie Burke) who after expecting twins, is plunged into a world of depression as […]
Continue ReadingTHE GREEN INFERNO: CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST 2 (1988) For years fans waited for the release of a sequel to Ruggero Deodato’s trendsetting Cannibal Holocaust, yet it would take almost a decade for The Green Inferno, also known as Cannibal Holocaust 2, to arrive… and it wasn’t what followers of the Italian cannibal cycle were expecting. A group of enterprising […]
Continue ReadingWriter/Director Kristian A. Söderström delivers as much a love letter to the VHS video nasty era as he does a cult film in its own right. As endearing as the film is, it’s a tough one to categorise as the film’s obsession with Giallo videos, including several well executed ‘homage’ scenes executed in that style, […]
Continue ReadingHex, a directorial debut from George Popov and Jonathan Russell whilst shows some merit for a mere £1000 budget struggles to deliver a punch. Set in the English civil war, two soldiers surviving from the battle find themselves deep in the woods. After trying to best each other in a sword fight they realise there […]
Continue ReadingThe Space between life and death can kill. The first trailer has been released for PET GRAVEYARD, a new supernatural thriller from Proportion Productions and Millman Productions. PET GRAVEYARD concerns a group of friends tormented by the Grim Reaper and his sinister pet after they undergo an experiment that allows them to revisit the dead. […]
Continue ReadingLa Llorona. The Weeping Woman. A horrifying apparition, caught between Heaven and Hell, trapped in a terrible fate sealed by her own hand. The mere mention of her name has struck terror around the world for generations. In life, she drowned her children in a jealous rage, throwing herself in the churning river after them […]
Continue ReadingSomething nasty is lurking in the forest in what might be the most frightening film of the year, a nerve-jangling mix of The Witch and Hereditary, from a formidable first time director. Sarah moves her precocious son Chris to a secluded new home in a rural town, trying to ease his apprehensions as they hope […]
Continue ReadingDan Pringle’s debut feature K-Shop sees a modern take on Sweeney Todd, whilst using a far too common sight in today’s society – Booze Britain. Salah (Ziad Abaza) is a student in the midst of his dissertation, his father a kebab shop owner fresh out of hospital dies after an altercation with some local drunks. […]
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