16th Mar2022

‘Reign of Chaos’ Review

by Phil Wheat

Stars: Rebecca Finch, Peter Cosgrove, Mark Sears, Rita Di Tuccio, Georgia Wood | Written by Tom Joliffe | Directed by Rebecca Matthews Proportion Productions are back with a slice of apocalyptic horror directed by Rebecca Matthews, flying solo this time without her partner in crime Scott Jeffrey; and writer Tom Joliffe, who some may know […]

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15th Mar2022

Romford Horror Festival 2022: ‘Tales of the Creeping Death’ Review

by Phil Wheat

Stars: Michael Socha, Andrew Readman, Dean Ackerman, Ricky Tomlinson, James Whitehurst, John Solomonides, Steve Wood, Solaya Rowley, George Newton, Billy Cook, Paul J. Dove, Maggie Evans | Written and Directed by John Williams Stoke-on-Trent filmmaker John Williams (no relation to the film composer of the same name) made his name, at least in the horror […]

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15th Mar2022

‘Suicide Forest Village’ Review

by Jim Morazzini

Stars: Rinka Otani, Anna Yamada, Mayu Yamaguch, Fuju Kamio, Haruka Kudo, Hideko Hara, Yumi Adachi | Written by Takashi Shimizu, Daisuke Hosaka | Directed by Takashi Shimizu Suicide Forest Village is the latest film from Takashi Shimizu, best known as the writer and director of The Grudge, both the original Japanese film and its US […]

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15th Mar2022

‘The Exorcism of God’ Review

by Jim Morazzini

Stars: Will Beinbrink, Joseph Marcell, María Gabriela de Faría, Raquel Rojas, Irán Castillo, Alfredo Herrera, Johanna Winkel, Hector Kotsifakis | Written by Alejandro Hidalgo, Santiago Fernández Calvete | Directed by Alejandro Hidalgo Alejandro Hidalgo made his debut in 2013 with The House at the End of Time, a haunted house film with a brilliant twist. Based […]

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15th Mar2022

‘The Girl on the Mountain’ Review

by Jim Morazzini

Stars: Daniel O’Reilly, Makenzie Sconce, D.T. Carney, Lorenzo Leonard, Ryan Kos, David Holt | Written and Directed by Matt Sconce Jack Ward (Daniel O’Reilly; Meteor Moon, D-Railed), the protagonist of The Girl on the Mountain is a man hunted by guilt. A conductor and composer, he was so devoted to his art that everything else, […]

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14th Mar2022

Frightfest Glasgow 2022: ‘Wyrmwood: Apocalypse’ Review

by Phil Wheat

Stars: Luke McKenzie, Jay Gallagher, Bianca Bradey, Nicholas Boshier, Shantae Barnes-Cowen, Tasia Zalar, Jake Ryan | Written by Kiah Roache-Turner, Tristan Roache-Turner | Directed by Kiah Roache-Turner I was a huge fan of 2014s Australian zombie gorefest Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead and so I have spent the intervening years awaiting the long-gestating sequel with […]

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14th Mar2022

‘Your Flesh Your Curse’ DVD Review

by Phil Wheat

Stars: Marie-Louise Damgaard Nielsen, Rose Milling, Louise Gammelgaard, Bill Hutchens, Kim Sønderholm, Frederik Carlsen, Emma Nymann, Paw Terndrup | Written and Directed by Kasper Juhl When young drug addict Juliet White dies, she doesn’t find herself in hell but somewhere far worse. Forced to relive the traumas and abuse of her days on earth, guided […]

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14th Mar2022

‘Offseason’ Review

by Jim Morazzini

Stars: Melora Walters, Jocelin Donahue, Joe Swanberg, Richard Brake | Written and Directed by Mickey Keating Offseason, the new film from writer/director Mickey Keating (Pod, Carnage Park) opens with Ava Aldrich (Melora Walters; The Accursed, The Pale Door) addressing the viewer in a scene that recalls Marianna Hill’s warning at the start of Messiah of […]

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11th Mar2022

Frightfest Glasgow 2022: ‘The Ledge’ Video Review

by Kevin Haldon

In his latest video review, Kevin sits down to discuss the new Howard J. Ford flick The Ledge, a scintillating thriller set on a cliff face that pushes its female lead to the extreme – which screens this weekend as part of Frightfest Glasgow 2022. A rock climbing adventure between two friends turns into a […]

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11th Mar2022

‘Hunters’ DVD Review

by Jim Morazzini

Stars: Benedict Mazurek, Alexandra Keller, Paul Haapaniemi, Angela Smeraldi | Written and Directed by Lexie Findarle Trivundza, Nick Trivundza Set in the 1908s, Hunters sees husband and wife writer/director team Lexie Findarle Trivundza and Nick Trivundza, who have also collaborated on The West and the Ruthless and Tales from the Black Manor, attempting to do […]

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11th Mar2022

‘The Ballad of Billy McCrae’ VOD Review

by Alain Elliott

Stars: Ian Virgo, Sianad Gregory, David Hayman, Ross O’Hennessy, Sophie Carmen-Jones, Gerald Tyler, Christopher Patrick Nolan, Carli De’La Hughes, Tim Duthrane | Written by Philip Palmer | Directed by Chris Crow [NOTE: With the film finally getting a home entertainment release, here’s a reposting of our review of The Ballad of Billy McCrae from its […]

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11th Mar2022

‘Sand World’ DVD Review

by Jim Morazzini

Stars: Samantha Coolidge, Ryan Dalton, Drew Patrick, Houston Baker, A.T. Tomas, Jeff Kirkendall, Cassandra Hayes | Written by John Oak Dalton | Directed by Mark Polonia [NOTE: With the film now out on DVD, here’s a reposting of our review of Sand World, formerly Dune World, from its digital review last year] With Denis Villeneuve’s […]

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10th Mar2022

‘The Seed’ Review (Shudder)

by Jim Morazzini

Stars: Sophie Vavasseur, Lucy Martin, Chelsea Edge, Anthony Edridge, Jamie Wittebrood, Shirley Barchou Pisani | Written and Directed by Sam Walker As The Seed opens Heather (Sophie Vavasseur; Resident Evil: Apocalypse, Exorcismus), Diedre (Lucy Martin; Vikings, The Grand Duke of Corsica) and Charlotte (Chelsea Edge; Dead in October, Emily and the Magical Journey) arrive at an […]

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10th Mar2022

‘Lost Angel’ VOD Review

by Phil Wheat

Stars: Sascha Harman, Fintan Shevlin, Maggie Clune, Matthew Carrington, Duncan Henderson, Nigel Fairs, Tim Blissett, Tesha Cushan | Written by Simon Drake, Louise Hume | Directed by Simon Drake When Lisa (Sascha Harman) returns home to the small island of Newpoint after the mysterious death of her sister, she is drawn into a dangerous and […]

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10th Mar2022

‘Exorcist Vengeance’ Review

by Jim Morazzini

Stars: Robert Bronzi, Elizabeth McNally, Anna Liddell, Sarah Alexandra Marks, Steven Berkoff, Nicola Wright, Simon Furness, Ben Parsons, Nicole Nabi | Written by Jeff Miller, Matthew B.C. | Directed by Scott Jeffrey, Rebecca Matthews As Exorcist Vengeance opens a woman lays bleeding in the street as Father Jozsef (Robert Bronzi; The Gardener, Escape from Death […]

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09th Mar2022

‘The Fourth Musketeer’ DVD Review

by Phil Wheat

Stars: Jonathan Hansler, Nathan McGowran, Matt Ingram-Jones, Mollie Hindle, Sean Cronin, Ade Dimberline, Morgan Rees-Davies, Richard Ingle, Melvyn Rawlinson | Written and Directed by Steve Lawson Independent Midlands filmmaker Steve Lawson, who has been exploring rather familiar horror characters in the likes of Bram Stoker’s Van Helsing, Ripper Untold and Jekyll & Hyde, is back […]

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09th Mar2022

‘The Accursed’ DVD Review

by Jim Morazzini

Stars: Jena Carpenter, Yancy Butler, Melora Walters, George Harrison Xanthis, Izabela Vidovic, Maiara Walsh, Goran Visnjic, Miraj Grbic, Ian Fisher, Alla Tumanian | Written and Directed by Kathryn Michelle, Elizabeta Vidovic The Accursed opens with a text crawling across the screen telling us about groups of Croatian women who banded together into groups or Sisterhoods, […]

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08th Mar2022

‘Sideshow’ Review

by Alain Elliott

Stars: Anthony Head, Les Dennis, April Pearson, Nathan Clarke | Written and Directed by Adam Oldroyd I’m happy to admit I wanted to watch Sideshow based entirely because it starred Anthony Head and Les Dennis. I’m a huge Buffy the Vampire Slayer fan, so I’ll watch pretty much anything with any of that show’s leads […]

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08th Mar2022

‘A Day to Die’ Review

by Jim Morazzini

Stars: Bruce Willis, Kevin Dillon, Frank Grillo, Leon, Brooke Butler, Gianni Capaldi | Written by Rab Berry, Scott Mallace | Directed by Wes Miller Since this is a day ending in “Y” that means it’s time for another Bruce Willis movie to arrive, this time it’s A Day to Die. I may have used that […]

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08th Mar2022

‘Glasshouse’ Review

by Phil Wheat

Stars: Jessica Alexander, Anja Taljaard, Hilton Pelser, Adrienne Pearce, Kitty Harris, Brent Vermeulen | Written by Kelsey Egan, Emma Lungiswa de Wet | Directed by Kelsey Egan A brand-new post-apocalyptic gothic sci-fi melodrama from South Africa, Glasshouse is one of a growing number of genre films to stem from the country, yet one that is […]

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08th Mar2022

Video Review: ‘Nightride’ (Netflix)

by Kevin Haldon

Kevin is back in the studio to talk about new Netflix movie Nightride. A low budget independent thriller starring Moe Dunford fresh off of Vikings, Knuckledust and the new Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Filmed in one take in real-time Netflix has truly picked up an absolute gem here and Kev can’t wait to talk about it. […]

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07th Mar2022

‘Cosmic Dawn’ Review

by Phil Wheat

Stars: Camille Rowe, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Antonia Zegers, Joshua Burge, Phil Granger | Written and Directed by Jefferson Moneo After witnessing an alien abduction as a child (and subsequently being told she’s crazy for most of her life) Aurora, now a young woman, joins the UFO cult The Cosmic Dawn after discovering a book written by […]

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