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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21st Sep2021

‘The Ballad of Billy McCrae’ 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 British gangster or small-town British revenge-style movies are a dime a dozen. There’s so many of them around, I assume because they are cheap […]

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18th Jan2021

‘Paintball Massacre’ DVD Review

by Phil Wheat

Stars: Katy Brand, Lee Latchford-Evans, Robert Portal, Nicholas Vince, Ian Virgo, Cheryl Burniston, Lockhart Ogilvie, Natasha Killip, Nathan Vlough, Joe Hallett | Written by Chris Regan | Directed by Darren Berry Brit horror Paintball Massacre sees a bunch of old school friends go on a paintball trip miles away from civilization. Things go horribly wrong […]

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13th Jun2019

‘Boots on the Ground’ DVD Review

by Nik Holman

Stars: Tom Ainsley, Ian Virgo, Ryan McParland, Valmike Rampersad, Sally Day | Written and Directed by Louis Melville [NOTE: With the film finally getting a UK release, here’s a reposting of our review of Boots on the Ground from way back in 2017 when it debuted at Frightfest] On the last night of the Afghan […]

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05th Jul2018

‘Tau’ Review (Netflix Original)

by Jak-Luke Sharp

Stars: Maika Monroe, Ed Skrein, Gary Oldman, Fiston Barek, Ivana Zivkovic, Sharon D. Clarke, Ian Virgo, Paul Leonard Murray, Dragoljub Ljubicic, Irene Chiengue Chiendjo | Written by Noga Landau | Directed by Federico D’Alessandro Federico D’Alessandro’s Tau is unequivocally horrific. It is utter torture to have to sit through and antagonising to even comprehend any […]

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26th Aug2017

Frightfest 2017: ‘Boots On The Ground’ Review

by Nik Holman

Stars: Tom Ainsley, Ian Virgo, Ryan McParland, Valmike Rampersad, Sally Day | Written and Directed by Louis Melville On the last night of the Afghan War, five British soldiers must stay alive until midnight. After a fight with Taliban forces, they bunk down in the ruins of an old fort dating back to the first […]

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03rd Nov2016

‘The Lighthouse’ Review

by Paul Metcalf

Stars: Michael Jibson, Mark Lewis Jones, Ian Virgo, Stephen McDade, Joshua Richards, Charles Curran, Jason May, Nathan Sussex, David Lloyd, David Shillitoe | Written by Paul Bryant, Chris Crow, Michael Jibson | Directed by Chris Crow Horror tends to disturb us much more when it taps into our own personal demons… The Lighthouse is a […]

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