Category: Splatter/Gore

The V/H/S franchise has always been a mixed bag—an anthology series where the highs are deliriously inventive, and the lows feel like filler padding out the runtime. V/H/S/Beyond, the latest entry, leans hard into the bizarre, pushing the franchise’s signature grainy aesthetic into uncharted (and often unhinged) territory. The result? A film that’s as erratic […]

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. […]

Jigsaw’s back, both literally and figuratively in the franchises latest output ‘Saw X’. Benefitting from a lot more Tobin Bell in his iconic role of the murderous engineer ‘Jigsaw’, the film is something of a return to form after a couple of middling sequels seemed to cause the powerhouse franchise to run out of steam. […]

‘The Price We Pay’ draws from the full gamut of horror/exploitation tropes and meshes them together into a movie which still manages to entertain, despites its familiar themes. The plot opens with our protagonist, Grace, whose day of struggling to pay bills only gets worse when the pawn shop she’s haggling in gets targeted by […]

I’ll accept it’s been a while now, and output has arguably slowed, but in their day the French had a bigger influence on horror modern horror than perhaps they are given recognition for. A cluster of films, of which this title forms a savage slice of the line-up, seemed to come out of left field […]

‘Mad Heidi’, straight in there at #1, my favourite ‘Swissploitaiton’ movie. Deliciously cheesy, ‘Mad Heidi’ carefully negotiates that much coveted, all most un-obtainium space of being not only awesomely gory, genuinely witty and funny, but as a film it’s also, very easy to recommend to those viewers, who might not typically gravitate towards splatter movies. […]

If you’ve ever wondered what the Sawyer’s festive gathering comprised of, then ponder no longer. ‘Mercy Christmas’ (whilst admittedly nothing to do with the Texas Chainsaw family), tells a bloody and brutal tale of a family whose ‘having friends over for dinner’ might be something far more literal than just a turn of phrase. ‘Mercy […]

As far as festive slasher movies go, the seasons entries have been a bit of a mixed bag. Killer elves, Killer (Ms) Klaus and murderous family disputes have provided nothing if not an eclectic mix of Christmas carnage. That said I’m always open to more, and when invited to Aaron Mento’s ‘Ugly Sweater Party’, I […]