Horror
Dog Soldiers
Plot A squad of British Army Commandos head to a remote forest in the Scottish highlands on a routine training mission pitting them against an elite Special Forces unit. Upon finding all but one […]
Month: February 2011
Genres
OPEN GRAVES: Film Review By Ross Hughes
OPEN GRAVES Or Jumanji goes evil…….. There is this cop in this right that is dead hard! No serious! Too prove he is one damn hard nut, he walks around with a […]
Genres
THE BOX: Film Review By Ross Hughes
THE BOX Ok, not quite a downright horror, there is no Bogeyman in sight, no masked fiend wanting to hack up annoying young Virgins, or even any blood of sort, splashing across the screen. […]
Genres
TIMBER FALLS: Review By Ross Hughes
TIMBER FALLS There is this Lumberjack who is sick of these tree huggers and decides to do a spot of killing? While these people walk around the woods, he silently chops down the trees, killing those standing underneath them. […]
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Survival Of The Dead: Review By Ross Hughes
GEORGE A. ROMERO’S SURVIVAL OF THE DEAD No-one does Zombies as good as George but the days when the franchise ….of the dead was big business are long but gone and sadly the sixth chapter […]
Genres
THE GRAVES: Review By Ross Hughes
THE GRAVES There is a new trend cliche in horror these days replacing that damn cat that comes out of closed cupboards once a noise as occurred. That opens another question……”As a black cat ever […]
Horror
SHUTTER ISLAND: Review By Ross Hughes
SHUTTER ISLAND “Would it be worse to live as a monster or die as a good man!” Shutter Island is not actually a full blown horror, its one of those films that dips it’s toes […]
Genres
SALVAGE: Review By Ross Hughes
SALVAGE When good old Jimmy Corkhill said goodbye to Brookside Close, that was probably the last time I ever thought I see those row of houses ever again. But no…the Close returns only this time […]
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The Girl Next Door Review By Ross Hughes
THE GIRL NEXT DOOR According to Stephen King, this is a dark version of Stand By Me, well that is what is says on the cover and I have to admit, it was that […]
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STAG NIGHT Review By Ross Hughes
STAG NIGHT Fans of Wrong Turn rejoice, the 4th instalment is out, in the disguise of this little straight to DVD offer titled Stag Night, that as those inbred bastards take residents underneath an underground […]
Columns
The Beast in Heat (AKA SS Hell Camp) (1977)
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfvObrJCVTM[/youtube] Directed by: Luigi Batzella First released: June 1982 Current status: Banned in the UK, available uncut in the US The Beast in Heat is one of the most famous of the Video Nasty’s, and […]
Horror
Primal (2010) by Matt Wavish (Pazuzu)
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pah2u9AXsHU[/youtube] 6 friends head off on an adventure to study ancient rock paintings in this shocker from Australia. Supposedly these paintings haven’t been seen for centuries and have been hidden away. Written on the rocks […]
Genres
The Open Door: A Review By Ross Hughes
THE OPEN DOOR “It begs the question….How it did win such high acclaim?” A good hour into this new horror and my lovely wife turned and looked at me. It was not a look of […]
Genres
FROZEN: Review By Ross Hughes
“ITS OPEN WATER ON SKIS!” By now everyone knows that I love my horror more than any genre. So it comes to no surprise when I say one of the most anticipated films […]
Genres
CHERRY TREE LANE
CHERRY TREE LANE My main gripe that bugged me throughout the watch of this british horror by London to Brighton director Paul Andrew Williams, is the tag that this is the new Eden Lake, when […]
Found Footage
PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 2: Review By Ross Hughes
THINGS THAT GO BUMP IN THE NIGHT………..AGAIN!!!! So, my most anticipated movie of the year has finally clapped my horror eyes, do I feel thrilled?, scared?, over the moon?, or deeply flat?. When the end […]
Drama
True Grit (2010)
The Coen Brothers don’t make bad movies. Sure some are frustrating (A Serious Man), others are offbeat (The Man Who Wasn’t There) and some unpredictable (No Country for Old Men) but they are always carefully […]
Giallo
AMER [2009]
BELGIUM/FRANCE RUNNING TIME: 90 mins AVAILABLE ON DVD REVIEWED BY: Dr Lenera Three segments in the life of Ana. Firstly, when she is a girl living in a big spooky mansion, she finds a […]