04th Feb2022

‘Holes in the Sky: The Sean Miller Story’ Review

by Jason Brigger

Starring: Sean Ed, Ash Hamilton, Chanell Hamilton, Douglas McDonald, Laura Richter | Written and Directed by Ash Hamilton Holes in the Sky: The Sean Miller Story is a new independent film from the mind of Ash Hamilton and while it’s not available for a wide release yet, it is making waves on the American horror […]

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04th Feb2022

‘Censor’ Blu-ray Limited Ed. Review (Second Sight)

by Paul Metcalf

Stars: Niamh Algar, Nicholas Burns, Vincent Franklin, Sophia La Porta, Adrian Schiller, Michael Smiley | Written by Prano Bailey-Bond, Anthony Fletcher | Directed by Prano Bailey-Bond While the eighties was a good time for horror movies, in the UK it was also a hard time for fans. So-called ‘Video Nasties” were banned and censorship was […]

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03rd Feb2022

‘The Long Night’ Review

by Jim Morazzini

Stars: Scout Taylor-Compton, Nolan Gerard Funk, Jeff Fahey, Kevin Ragsdale, Deborah Kara Unger | Written by Mark Young, Robert Sheppe | Directed by Rich Ragsdale As The Long Night opens Grace (Scout Taylor-Compton; An Intrusion, Apache Junction) and her boyfriend Jack (Nolan Gerard Funk; The House at the End of the Street, Truth or Dare) […]

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03rd Feb2022

Video Review: ‘A Violent Man’ – A Flawless Directorial Debut

by Kevin Haldon

Kev’s back in the pod cave for his review of A Violent Man, the latest gritty Brit film starring Craig Fairbrass. Steve Mackleson is a dangerous prisoner, incarcerated for double murder in a maximum security prison. We follow, as he navigates his struggle against redemption the system and his inner turmoil, when a young black […]

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03rd Feb2022

‘Slapface’ Review (Shudder)

by Jim Morazzini

Stars: August Maturo, Mike Manning, Libe Barer, Dan Hedaya, Bianca D’Ambrosio, Chiara D’Ambrosio, Mirabelle Lee, Lukas Hassel | Written and Directed by Jeremiah Kipp Writer/director Jeremiah Kipp (Theresa & Allison, The Sadist) has expanded his short, also titled Slapface, into feature-length; which, as with any short, is a risky undertaking. What works at fifteen or […]

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02nd Feb2022

‘Aileen Wournos: American Boogeywoman’ Review (Netflix)

by Phil Wheat

Stars: Peyton List, Tobin Bell, Lydia Hearst, Swen Temmel, Andrew Biernat, Nick Vallelonga, Ashley Atwood, Christa Collins, Christopher Corbin, Joseph Schwartz, Hamish Sturgeon | Written and Directed by Daniel Farrands In recent years writer/director Daniel Farrands, who penned 1995’s Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers (still a personal favourite in the franchise) has turned […]

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02nd Feb2022

‘Off Fleek’ Short Film Review

by Alain Elliott

Stars: Nicola Goodchild, Patrick Marlowe, Shona O’Sullivan, Phoebe Rawlinson | Written and Directed by Steven Dorrington The horror of social media and the bullying that comes from it is all too real for young people growing up today, so it’s no surprise to see the genre film directors focusing their movies on it. Off Fleek […]

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02nd Feb2022

‘Abstruse’ VOD Review

by Jim Morazzini

Stars: Kris Reilly, Dennis Marin, Dennis Haskins, Jessika Johnson, Kaiti Wallen, Harley Wallen, Tom Sizemore | Written and Directed by Harley Wallen Harley Wallen’s film Abstruse has been on the festival circuit for a number of years and has racked up quite the list of awards. Of course, as we all know, festival awards don’t […]

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01st Feb2022

‘Catwoman: Hunted’ Blu-ray Review

by Phil Wheat

Features the voices of: Elizabeth Gillies, Stephanie Beatriz, Kirby Howell-Baptiste, Kelly Hu, Jonathan Banks, Keith David, Lauren Cohan, Jacqueline Obradors, Zehra Fazal, Jonathan Frakes, Steve Blum, Andrew Kishino | Written by Greg Weisman | Directed by Shinsuke Terasawa Catwoman: Hunted is the latest film in the rebooted DC Animated Movie slate and is, like Batman: […]

01st Feb2022

‘Dracula: The Original Living Vampire’ Review

by Phil Wheat

Stars: Christine Prouty, Stuart Packer, Ryan Woodcock, India Lillie Davies, Jake Herbert, Michael Ironside | Written by Michael Varrati | Directed by Maximilian Elfeldt It’s interesting to see that the classic monsters of yesteryear, the kings of horror storytelling – Dracula, the Mummy, the Wolfman – are all returning to the [small] screen in new […]

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01st Feb2022

‘Bad Weed (aka Maleza)’ Review

by Alain Elliott

Stars: Víctor Amilibia, Emma Caballero, Leire Ucha, Christian Stamm, Diego Pérez, Nayra Gallego, Javi Alaiza | Written and Directed by Rubén Arnaiz I often speak about the title of a movie being important. I think with so much media, so many streaming services and of course so many films to watch, many people might make […]

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01st Feb2022

‘Lockdown’ VOD Review

by Jim Morazzini

Stars: Kevin Nash, Swayde McCoy, David Ford, Stephanie Kae Smith | Written and Directed by Micah Lyons Lockdown, formerly titled COVID-19: Invasion, is set in the plague-ravaged year of 2035. The world’s population has been decimated and there are only 29,000,000 people left. And it’s about to become 28,999,999 as, after a short chase, Rex […]

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31st Jan2022

‘The Requin (aka From Below)’ Review

by Phil Wheat

Stars: Alicia Silverstone, James Tupper, Deirdre O’Connell, Danny Chung, Kha Mai | Written and Directed by Le-Van Kiet Opens with an oddly “fake” looking scene that feels like it was shot entirely on a green screen soundstage – which for all I know might be true, especially given the copious amounts of CGI featured in […]

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31st Jan2022

‘Bae Wolf’ Review

by Alain Elliott

Stars: Rachel Petsiavas, Aaron Blomberg, Josh Kern, Morgan Shaley Renew, Jennifer Hill | Written by David Axe, Darien Cavanaugh | Directed by David Axe They had me at the name! It doesn’t take too much to interest me to be honest when it comes to a film. Get a good title or good artwork for […]

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28th Jan2022

‘In the Forest’ Review

by Jim Morazzini

Stars: Lyman Ward, Debbon Ayer, Cristina Spruell, Don Baldaramos, Time Winters, Sharon Sharth | Written and Directed by Hector Barron One of the things that I attribute the fact that I’m still alive to is the fact that I never liked going camping. From The Hills Have Eyes to The Trees Have Eyes to Eyes […]

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28th Jan2022

‘Assholes’ Blu-ray Review (Vinegar Syndrome / Circle Collective)

by Phil Wheat

Stars: Peter Vack, Betsey Brown, Jack Dunphy, Eileen Dietz, Jane Brown, Ron Brown, Richard Mark Jordan, Patrick Labella, James Augustus Lee, Catherine Bo-Eun Song | Written and Directed by Peter Vack Seemingly inspired by mumblecore filmmaking, Assholes actually plays out more like Troma’s take on the Brian Yuzna film Society, and under their auspices would […]

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28th Jan2022

‘Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster’ Review (Shudder)

by Paul Metcalf

Horror, as a movie genre, has a history that goes to the very beginnings of film itself. All the way back in the 1930s when Universal were creating what would become known as the “Universal Monsters” legends were also being born. One of these was Boris Karloff who is celebrated in the documentary Boris Karloff: […]

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28th Jan2022

‘Below the Fold’ VOD Review

by Alain Elliott

Stars: Davis DeRock, Sarah McGuire, Jamie Addison, Daniel Compo | Written and Directed by Clayton Scott The story isn’t a new one with Below The Fold, as a couple of local newspaper reporters delve into a ten-year-old case about a missing girl. The deeper they go into the story, the more questions and suspects there […]

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27th Jan2022

‘Ravenstein’ Review (Tubi)

by Jim Morazzini

Stars: James McClusky, Nik Kaneti-Dimmer, Chris Wilson, Thomas Walters, Seth Easterbrook, Martyn Eade | Written by Eveshka Ghost, Thomas Walters | Directed by Eveshka Ghost When I saw the title Ravenstein my first thought was I’d found an EDM mad scientist film, Ravers meets Depraved if you will. Then I saw the synopsis and the […]

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27th Jan2022

‘Confession’ VOD Review

by Jim Morazzini

Stars: Colm Meaney, Stephen Moyer, Clare-Hope Ashitey, Kris Johnson, Sadie Jean Shirley | Written and Directed by David Beton Much of the pre-release discussion about Confession, (not to be confused with the 2020 serial killer film of the same name) centred on its stars Colm Meaney (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Gangs of London) and […]

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26th Jan2022

‘WarHunt’ VOD Review

by Jim Morazzini

Stars: Mickey Rourke, Robert Knepper, Jackson Rathbone, Fredrik Wagner, Polina Pushkareva, Anna Paliga, Lou Stassen, Josh Burdett, Alex Mills, Elliott Wooster, Ben McKeown | Written by Mauro Borrelli, Reggie Keyohara III, Scott Svatos | Directed by Mauro Borrelli From the early 1970s to the mid-1980s DC Comics published Weird War Tales which, as the title […]

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26th Jan2022

‘C.A.M.’ Review

by Phil Wheat

Stars: Charlotte Curwood, Tom Ware, Jamie Langlands, Michael Swatton, Peter Rayfield, Daniel Jeary, David Stopp, Robert Daniel Kolscar, Roger Wyatt | Written by Steph Du Melo | Directed by Larry Downing, Steph Du Melo When “Disease Control” are alerted that food at a local meat processing plant has been contaminated by a rare virus, trainee […]

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