‘Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum’ has got all the ingredients to hit a horror homerun, and then some. Set in an abandoned asylum deep in the Korean countryside a team of influencers hope to achieve online fame by live-streaming a walkthrough and Seanance in the troubled derelict. There was a time about 10 years of so when […]
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We were famously told to stay off the moors in 1981 and for good reason, and whilst Chris Cronin’s ‘The Moor’ perhaps doesn’t hold quite the same level of threat as Landis’s Werewolf, it’s still just as good advice now as it was then. ‘The Moor’ a (very) slow burn piece of horror creeps its […]
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Despite its catchy but rather juvenile name ‘Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker’ (aka Night Warning) is a film somewhat ahead of its time with its challenging of social stereotypes and its inversion of the ‘final girl’ role. Despite it being somewhat swept aside given the tidal wave of early 80s slasher movies, there is a complexity […]
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Something is really not right with George. His murderous antics in ‘Nightmare’ would possibly be all but forgotten some four decades later, had it not been for the films tremulous releases throughout the years. That said, Code Red, got the ball rolling with its original DVD in 2012 and now Severin have gone the full […]
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Frank Hennenlotter, a name lost for over a decade returned in 2008, and I can tell you, he’d not lost a thing. Those of you familiar with his earlier works, ‘Basket Case’, ‘Frankenhooker’ and ‘Brain Damage’ will know, that he takes traditional cult horror ethos, and fucks it up further using his own twisted imagination. […]
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“That’s the way to do it” screeches the films titular slasher as he stalks a would be victim along the promenade of a dreary UK seafront. In some respects Andy Webster’s ‘Punch’ sort of does, but ultimately it perhaps shares more in common with modern folk horrors than contemporary slashers. The plot of the movie, […]
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Mel Brook’s classic spoof of an equally classic horror, allows a rough rehash of the story with almost each and every iconic scene ‘re-imagined’ through Brook’s comedic lens. If the original movie wasn’t already pretty goofy, re-watching it following ‘Young Frankenstein’ certainly hasn’t helped it seem any less. Set in the 1960s, the story opens […]
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‘The Cleansing Hour’, a lucrative and ‘Vatican licenced’ social media brand, puts an exorcism online for millions of viewers to see. Despite countless ‘effective’ exorcisms, numbers are however dwindling, with a toxic community more interested in the ‘hot priest’ or offering degenerate comments of what they’d like the demons to do to their possessed hosts, […]
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‘The Advent Calendar’ is an effective Christmas chiller, offering intrigue and some genuine chills as its unorthodox mystery unfolds. After receiving a creepy advent calendar as a gift from a friend, a wheelchair bound young lady faces a 24 days long series of moral dilemmas as she must make choices, some of which offer her […]
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With ‘Crawl’ Aja does for basements and alligators, what Niel Marshall did for the sub-terrain and cave creatures. An almost perfect blend of creature feature with a slasher sentiment, ‘Crawl’ is well worth your time if you’re a fan of either genres. The plot is deceptively simple. A young lady goes looking for her estranged […]
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