Stars: Kaho Seto, Satoshi Oka, Ryuseigun Saionji | Written and Directed by Keishi Kondo The late nineties/early 2000s brought a new and highly successful era of Japanese horror (or J-horror as it is often known). It seemed like a new cult classic was released every few months, from Ring to The Eye to Dark Water […]
Stars: Karl Kennedy-Williams, Param Patel, Judson Vaughan, Dani Thompson | Written and Directed by Richard Antony Dunford Low-budget horror is often a subgenre in itself that many people seem to love – the latest big hit, The Terrifier franchise, very much started off as this – but low-budget sci-fi doesn’t quite have the same reputation. […]
Written by Jordan Downey, Kevin Stewart, Virat Pal, Evan Dickson, Justin Martinez, Benjamin A. Turner, Christian and Justin Long, Mike Flanagan | Directed by Jay Cheel, Jordan Downey, Virat Pal, Justin Martinez, Christian and Justin Long, Kate Siegel As a big fan of both found-footage horror movies and anthology horror movies, I have always loved […]
Stars: Magui Bravi, Nacho Francavilla, Josefina Farina, Justina Ceballos, Zhon Li, Agustin Olcese, Pachi Lucas, Iago Illescas, Maite Solsona, Brett DelBuono | Written by Camilo Zaffora | Directed by Carlos Goitia, Guillermo Lockhart, Andrés Borghi, David Ferino, Ryan Graff, Maximilian Niemann, Jerónimo Rocha, Arie Socorro I must confess to actually not seeing the first movie […]
Stars: Minka Kelly, Maggie Grace, Dermot Mulrooney, Natalie Simpson, Edward Baker-Duly, Alan Calton, Sally Blouet, Pandora Clifford | Written by Elizabeth Fowler | Directed by Jeff Celentano There are plenty of reasons that murder mysteries are generally very popular. They can be made relatively cheaply, they can go straight to streaming/TV or on the big […]
Stars: Mike Smith, Robb Wells, JP Tremblay, Pat Roach, Billy Bob Thornton, Ronnie Wood, Martin Freeman, Robert Sheehan | Written by Mike Smith | Directed by Charlie Lightening It’s a little hard to say how popular the series Trailer Park Boys is. It went for twelve seasons and this is the fourth movie spin-off, all […]
Stars: Gwilym Lee, Carolyn Bracken, Tadhg Murphy, Caroline Menton, Steve Wall, Johnny French | Written and Directed by Damian McCarthy From director Damian McCarthy (Caveat), Oddity tells the story of a female psychic attempting to get to the bottom of her twin sister’s murder by returning to the scene of the crime. Oddity is all […]
Stars: Rasina Alexander, Mark Arnold, Nicholas Vince, Cory Peterson, Marina Lazaris, Zee West, Cian Lorcan | Written and Directed by Airell Anthony Hayles As a lover of all things Christmas, and therefore Christmas horror, I’ve always thought there could be a decent genre film based on the advent calendar. And indeed a movie came out […]
Stars: Mateo Ortega Casillas, Leonardo Cervantes, Carla Adell, Farid Escalante Correa, Norma Flores, Horacio F. Lazo, Noé Hernández, Juan Carlos Remolina | Written by Isaac Ezban, Ricardo Aguado-Fentanes | Directed by Isaac Ezban Mexican horror movies have always been about it seems but there’s never been enough of them in the mainstream to make them […]
Stars: Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Zeljko Ivanek, Lauren Cohan, Gaius Charles, Mahina Napoleon, Logan Kim | Created by Eli Jorne After dipping in and out of The Walking Dead, I recently reviewed the first season of its spin-off The Ones Who Live and enjoyed it enough that I couldn’t wait to give one of its other […]
Stars: Andrew Lincoln, Danai Gurira, Pollyanna McIntosh, Lesley Ann-Brandt, Terry O’Quinn | Created by Scott M. Gimple It’s hard to say I am even a fan of The Walking Dead. Initially I only watched the first two seasons and I didn’t enjoy it enough to keep watching. Then after several more seasons, I was offered […]
Stars: Alexandre Nachi, Derek Johns, Megan Peta Hill, Vincent Leclerc, Benz Antoine, Carlo Mestroni, Guy Nadon, Patrick Abellard | Written by Jerry Frisson, Francois Simard, Anouk Whissell | Directed by Francois Simard, Anouk Whissell, Yoann-Karl Whissell Knowing this film comes from RKSS – the Canadian filmmaking collective composed of François Simard, Anouk Whissell, and Yoann-Karl […]
Stars: Mateo Ortega Casillas, Leonardo Cervantes, Carla Adell, Farid Escalante Correa, Norma Flores, Horacio F. Lazo, Noé Hernández, Juan Carlos Remolina | Written by Isaac Ezban, Ricardo Aguado-Fentanes | Directed by Isaac Ezban Mexican horror movies have always been about it seems but there’s never been enough of them in the mainstream to make them […]
Stars: Ayisha Issa, Steven Ogg, Chris Jericho, Sara Canning, Michael Eklund, Jonathan Cherry, Leo Fafard, Skene Kittle, Damian Chao, Stephanie Wolfe | Written and Directed by Lowell Dean There’s actually been a few wrestling-themed horror movies but the quality has been somewhat lacking. From Wrestlers vs Zombies to Wrestlemaniac to Parts Unknown to Wrestlemassacre. At […]
Stars: Gwilym Lee, Carolyn Bracken, Tadhg Murphy, Caroline Menton, Steve Wall, Johnny French | Written and Directed by Damian McCarthy From director Damian McCarthy (Caveat), Oddity tells the story of a female psychic attempting to get to the bottom of her twin sister’s murder by returning to the scene of the crime. Oddity is all […]
Stars: Antonio da Luz, Luís Aleluia, Tania Bento, Paulo Espírito Santo, Marlon Fontes, Sara Fernandes Fontes | Written and Directed by Fabio Powers This one from this year’s Fantasia Festival had me at its title. How could you not want to watch a film called The Old Man and the Demon Sword!? Thankfully, it delivers, […]
Stars: Jeremy Moineau, Chris Asimos, Dominique Booth, Lewi Dawson, Olivia Deeble, Lisa Fanto, Molly Ferguson, Patty Glavieux, Betsey Brown | Written by Alice Maio Mackay, Benjamin Pahl Robinson | Directed by Alice Maio Mackay As always, I made sure I got to see the Christmas movie from this year’s Fantasia festival. Carnage for Christmas sees […]
My favourite festival of the year is soon to be upon us and Fantasia has another insanely brilliant line-up ready for you! Here are ten films – in no particular order – that I cannot wait to check out. Samara Weaving in a new horror film. That’s all I need to say really but I […]
Stars: Greta Bellamacina, Amber Anderson, Tamsin Egerton, Josette Simon | Written by Jaclyn Bethany, Greta Bellamacina | Directed by Jaclyn Bethany Written by Jaclyn Bethany (who is on directing duties) and Greta Bellamacina (who also stars in a lead role), Tell That To The Winter Sea tells the story of two friends, Jo and Scarlet, […]
Stars: David Pareja, Estefanía de los Santos, Josep Riera, Claudia Riera, Eduardo Antuña | Written by Caye Casas, Cristina Borobia | Directed by Caye Casas I had read quite a lot of comments about The Coffee Table before I had seen it but pretty much all of them said something along the lines of “watch […]
Stars: Joe Wilkinson, Laura Aikman, Jane Asher | Written and Directed by Warren Fischer I always like to give British comedy a go because, in amongst plenty of poor shows and films has been a whole lot of great stuff. British comedy often feels a little bit different from many other countries, so with A […]
