May
27
2020
Dream Demon is an odd film. It’s a little like watching a sequence of outtakes from a Nightmare on Elm Street film, but with any logic removed. The fact that the music sometimes echoes some of Nightmare’s score adds...
May
27
2020
This is a 1982 film from director Richard Jefferies and written and produced by Nico Mastorakis. The cast seems quite impressive, with James Earl Jones and Jose Ferrer, but the plot and the realization of the monster lets the...
May
15
2020
I recently watched through a box set of all the Nightmare on Elm Street films up to number 7, some of which I’d never seen before … so here’s a perspective on them.
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) –...
Jul
23
2019
When I was a lad, there seemed to be literally hundreds of monster movie magazines. Titles like Famous Monsters, Monster Mag, House of Hammer, Starburst, and Shivers, not to mention the classic books by Denis Gifford and Alan Frank ... but these days the...
Jun
17
2019
Fans of Charlie Brooker's speculative science fiction/horror series BLACK MIRROR on Netflix will want to check out three new, short versions of the series which have just dropped on YouTube. Included on the channels of the three directors, these...
Apr
23
2019
It's a little difficult to know what to make of Anna and the Apocalypse. It's a zombie film ... but it's also a musical! And for me, the two elements just don't mesh together.
Anna is at university/college with her...
Apr
15
2019
It must be tricky trying to name an eighties horror film ... so many of them just try too hard and for every cult classic there's a host of wannabes waiting in the wings ... Scared Stiff is an...
Apr
08
2019
What to make of this new science fiction film, Terra Formars, from Takashi Miike ... First of all, it's based on a Manga series of the same name, and I think this shows in the structure of the piece....
Apr
01
2019
Lifechanger is an interesting film. While it basically follows the same character, this character is a shapeshifter and can take on the form of other people. But in order to do so, it needs to kill the person it...
Mar
26
2019
There's always something rather satisfying in sitting back and enjoying one of those eighties slasher movies. You know, the ones where a group of kids go off to camp, or to a mall, or to babysit, or to a...
Mar
11
2019
Completely at the other end of the spectrum to Redcon-1 comes another War-based zombie fun fest, Overlord. However here, the plot makes sense, the characters are good, and the whole thing is a tremendous film!
Produced by J J Abrams,...
Mar
08
2019
Redcon-1 is a new film directed by Chee Keong Cheung and is another entry in the Zombie Apocalypse genre. It's perhaps unfortunate that I have seen quite a few Zombie films in my time, and so I can see...
