15th Jun2021

‘Evil Everywhere’ DVD Review

by Alain Elliott

Stars: Dylan Mars Greenberg, Corrinne Mica, Mykee Morettini, Brian Harmony, Peter Dorman, Jessica Rabid, Jared Walker, Leland Masek, Carolyn Hansen, Jamie Lee Cortese | Written and Directed by Mykee Morettini The second 80s horror-inspired movie I have seen in as many days but this one with a much worse title. Evil Everywhere is about as […]

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15th Jun2021

‘Lake Mungo: Limited Edition’ Blu-ray Review (Second Sight)

by Paul Metcalf

Stars: Rosie Traynor, David Pledger, Martin Sharpe, Talia Zucker, Tania Lentini, Cameron Strachan, Judith Roberts, Robin Cuming, Marcus Costello, Chloe Armstrong | Written and Directed by ‎Joel Anderson Horror can be all about the jump scares, or all about the scares. Some though work at a more cerebral level and hits the emotions more. Lake […]

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14th Jun2021

‘In The Earth’ Review

by Jim Morazzini

Stars: Joel Fry, Hayley Squires, Reece Shearsmith, Ellora Torchia, John Hollingworth, Mark Monero | Written and Directed by Ben Wheatley In the Earth, the new film from Ben Wheatley (Kill List), begins with images all to familiar images of people in masks and hazmat suits. Here, as in real life, the world is in the grip […]

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14th Jun2021

‘Don’t Look Back’ DVD Review

by Phil Wheat

Stars: Kourtney Bell, Will Stout, Skyler Hart, Jeffrey Holm, Jaqueline Fleming, Amanda Grace Benitez, Damon Lipari, Han Soto, Dean J. West, Stephen Twardokus | Written and Directed by Jeffrey Reddick [NOTE: With the film now released in the UK, here’s a reposting of our review of Don’t Look Back from its screening at Frightfest last […]

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14th Jun2021

‘Parallel’ DVD Review

by Chris Thomas

Stars: Aml Ameen, Martin Wallström, Georgia King, Mark O’Brien, Alyssa Diaz, Josh Blacker, Kathleen Quinlan, Chad Krowchuk, Michael Kopsa, Carrie Genzel, Bill Dow | Written by Scott Blaszak | Directed by Isaac Ezban “That lady is wearing a wig!” is the first thought that comes to me at the start of Parallel… Shortly thereafter, the […]

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11th Jun2021

‘Unit Eleven’ DVD Review

by Jim Morazzini

Stars: Theo Cane Garvey, Ieuan Parry, Helen Andrzejowska, Carl Kendall, Aaron Slack, Bradley Morton, James Caroll, Paul Barlow | Written and Directed by Theo Cane Garvey Unit Eleven looks fifteen years into the future and sees a world in which, for reasons we’re not told, crime in the UK has risen out of control. To […]

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10th Jun2021

‘Scare Us’ VOD Review

by Jim Morazzini

Stars: Tom Sandoval, Michael C. Alvarez, Michelle Palermo, Richard Lippert, Ethan Drew, Brad Grubenhoff, Charlotte Lilt, Jason Wiechert, Jennifer Jones Nesbit | Written by Will Hirsch, Ryan Henry Johnston, Charlotte Lilt, Ryan Kjolberg, Jordan Pillar, Carl Jensen IV, Tom J. McCoy | Directed by Ryan Henry Johnston, Charlotte Lilt, Ryan Kjolberg, Jordan Pillar, Carl Jensen […]

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10th Jun2021

‘The Unhealer’ Blu-ray Review

by Phil Wheat

Stars: Elijah Nelson, Lance Henriksen, Natasha Henstridge, Adam Beach, Chris Browning, Branscombe Richmond | Written by J. Shawn Harris, Kevin E. Moore | Directed by Martin Guigui In the past I’ve often talked about how I spent my teenage years basically living in the local video shop, renting title after title – mainly from the […]

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10th Jun2021

‘Spare Parts’ Blu-ray Review

by Phil Wheat

Stars: Julian Richings, Michelle Argyris, Emily Alatalo, Jason Rouse, Kiriana Stanton, Chelsea Muirhead, Ryan Allen, Kathryn Kohut | Written by David Murdoch, Svet Rouskov | Directed by Andrew Thomas Hunt In a godforsaken bar in the middle of nowhere – an all-girl punk band, Ms. 45, rip the stage apart with their anarchy spirit. Their […]

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09th Jun2021

‘Nobody’ Review

by Matthew Turner

Stars: Bob Odenkirk, Connie Nielsen, Alexey Serebryakov, Christopher Lloyd, RZA, Michael Ironside, Colin Salmon, Billy MacLellan, Gage Munroe | Written by Derek Kolstad | Directed by Ilya Naishuller Mild-mannered Bob Odenkirk goes all John Wick in this gleefully violent action thriller that has a few surprises up its sleeve. How violent is it? Well, director […]

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09th Jun2021

‘The Dark Divide’ VOD Review

by Alain Elliott

Stars: David Cross, David Koechner, Debra Messing, Gary Farmer, Kimberly Guerrero, Cameron Esposito, Ayanna Berkshire, Olivia Ritchie | Written and Directed by Tom Putnam Considering Bill Bryson is my favourite author and I love travel and hiking, I really haven’t watched enough movies about hiking journeys. Are there even that many of them? I’m not […]

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08th Jun2021

‘Caveat’ Review (Shudder)

by Jim Morazzini

Stars: Ben Caplan, Jonathan French, Conor Dwane, Leila Sykes | Written and Directed by Damian Mc Carthy In the first few minutes of writer/director, Damian Mc Carthy’s debut feature Caveat Barret (Ben Caplan; Call the Midwife, RocknRolla) offers Isaac (Jonathan French; Bravado) 200 GBP, about $290, a day to watch over his niece Olga (Leila […]

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08th Jun2021

‘Drunk Bus’ VOD Review

by Alain Elliott

Stars: Charlie Tahan, Pineapple Tangaroa, Will Forte, Kara Hayward, Zach Cherry, Sarah Mezzanotte, Dave Hill, Tonatiuh, Martin Pfefferkorn | Written by Chris Molinaro | Directed by John Carlucci, Brandon LaGanke Some times a film comes along that you expect very little from but ends up being so much more than you expected and Drunk Bus is […]

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08th Jun2021

Rewind: ‘Color Out of Space’ Review

by Chris Thomas

Stars: Nicolas Cage, Joely Richardson, Madeleine Arthur, Elliot Knight, Tommy Chong, Brendan Meyer, Julian Hilliard, Josh C. Waller, Q’orianka Kilcher | Written by Richard Stanley, Scarlett Amaris | Directed by Richard Stanley I consider myself to be a big fan of HP Lovecraft’s work. However, much like the band “Guided by Voices” I tend to […]

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07th Jun2021

HORRHIFFIC 2021: ‘The Whooper Returns’ Review

by Phil Wheat

Stars: Caroline Nicolian, Nathan Hollabaugh, David Flick, Owen Miller, Rik Billock, Megan Bolton, Andrew Ashbrook Freed, Dylan Grunn, Julia Best Warner | Written and Directed by Samuel Krebs Let’s not mess around, The Whooper Returns is a terrible title for a film that takes the familiar tropes of haunted house stories and turns them on […]

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07th Jun2021

HORRHIFFIC 2021: ‘VHS Forever? Once Upon a Time in Camden’ Review

by Phil Wheat

Written and Directed by Mark Williams There has been an explosion in recent years of documentaries taking a look back at VHS, mainly from an American perspective (and often focussing more on the current rarity of said tapes rather than the nostalgia factor) with films like Rewind This! and Adjust Your Tracking. However here in […]

07th Jun2021

‘Shock Wave: Hong Kong Destruction’ Review

by Phil Wheat

Stars: Andy Lau, Ching Wan Lau, Ni Ni, Kwan-Ho Tse, Ron Ng, Tak-Bun Wong, Philip Keung, Chun Kit Chang | Written by Herman Yau, Erica Li, Eric Lee | Directed by Herman Yau After suffering life changing injuries in the line of duty, bomb disposal officer Poon Shing Fung (Andy Lau, Infernal Affairs, House of […]

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04th Jun2021

‘Saltwater: The Battle for Ramree Island’ Review

by Phil Wheat

Stars: Steven Dolton, Ryan Harvey, Glenn Salvage, Jas Steven Singh, Charlie Bond, David Hon Ma Chu, Tony Lau | Written and Directed by Steve Lawson Independent Midlands filmmaker Steve Lawson, whose last film, Bram Stoker’s Van Helsing, was a surprising take on the Dracula mythos, is back behind the camera for and altogether different beast […]

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04th Jun2021

‘Zombi VIII: Urban Decay’ Review

by Phil Wheat

Stars: Jennifer Nangle, Erik Anthony Russo, Ronnie Angel, Mel Novak, Shawn C. Phillips, John R. Walker, Ken May, Noel Jason Scott, Pat Kusnadi, Ashley Morgan Kilbride, Julie Anne Prescott, Ricky Egan | Written and Directed by Dustin Ferguson I’m not going to lie, I had absolutely no idea this film even existed, or was part […]

04th Jun2021

Video Review: ‘Wrath of Man’ – a less than thrilling heist thriller?

by Kevin Haldon

Here’s Kev with a video review of the brand-new Guy Ritchie/Jason Statham collaboration Wrath of Man (a remake of French film Cash Truck) which is out now in the US, with a UK debut due on July 23rd 2021. Mysterious and wild-eyed, a new security guard for a cash truck surprises his co-workers when he […]

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04th Jun2021

Video Review: ‘Army of the Dead’ – Dead on Arrival?

by Kevin Haldon

Here’s Kev with a video review of Zack Snyder’s highly anticipated Army of the Dead, which is now available to watch on Netflix. Also check out our written review here: http://www.nerdly.co.uk/2021/05/24/army-of-the-dead-review-netflix/ With the abandoned, walled city of Las Vegas overrun with zombies, after a disastrous government fault, the billionaire casino magnate, Bly Tanaka, realises that […]

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03rd Jun2021

‘Amityville Poltergeist’ Review

by Jim Morazzini

Stars: Parris Bates, Conor Austin, Sydney Winbush, Rebecca Morse, Jon Ashley Hall | Written by Calvin Morie McCarthy, Jon Ashley Hall | Directed by Calvin Morie McCarthy After Amityville Island, Amityville Asylum, Amityville Cornfield and Witches of Amityville Academy I was actually surprised to find out that nobody had made a film called Amityville Poltergeist […]

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