Gareth Evans’ brutal fight flick, The Raid, was an astonishing film that blew the minds of movie fans last year. If you managed to catch this film at [read on...]

    John Carpenter’s In The Mouth of Madness is a classic horror film which, for some god forsaken reason, is yet to receive a proper region 2 release here [read on...]

  One of the most curious things I find about the slasher movie is the puritan aspect that is often present. If you have sex, you stand a much better [read on...]

  Franck Khalfoun’s stunning Maniac remake hit limited cinemas on Friday 15th March, and while the film contains countless pretty freakin awesome death scenes, due to it just being released, I felt [read on...]

    Director Adrian Lyne’s Jacob’s Ladder is without question one of the finest horror films ever made. A film to really screw with your head, and one that doesn’t [read on...]

Arguably my favourite monster movie of all time, Tremors (1990) mixes man-eating worms, scares, laughs and great characters to create an adrenaline-pumping, crowd pleaser. Kevin Bacon and Fred Ward play [read on...]

I read back over our Top Ten Universal films the other day and a strange feeling came over me, something wasn’t quite right, something was missing. I sat and pondered [read on...]

Being the one on HCF who reviews most of the animated films that come out, it was only a matter of time before I chose a death scene from an [read on...]

All the talk of Jose Padilha’s Robocop remake got me in the mood for watching Paul Verhoeven’s classic, just as a reminder that no matter who you put in charge [read on...]

  Edgar Wright’s zombie triumph, Shaun of the Dead (2004) is probably the more fitting of his movies to appear on the HCF website, yet the goriest death takes place in his [read on...]

  Steven Spielberg has often had a knack of getting his films rated  ‘PG’ by the censors despite the fact they contain material that would normally have got the films [read on...]

The shock death of a main character is something that has been used to massive effect in movies throughout the ages. I remember when I was a young one and [read on...]

  After his feature film debut I Stand Alone, a harrowing and frightening portrayal of a man on the edge, Gaspar Noe went even further with his next film, and [read on...]

  This is cheating perhaps, because this week’s Death Of The Week features five deaths…though virtually all at once.  Now Halloween and perhaps even more, Friday The 13th, inspired a [read on...]

SPOILER WARNING: THIS POST GIVES AWAY THE ENDING OF THE FILM! Even though the early ones were groundbreaking in their use of sex, violence and gore, one doesn’t usually think [read on...]

  The majority of our Deaths up to now have been at the gruesome end of the scale, so here’s a murder scene that doesn’t spill a drop of blood, [read on...]

Death Of The Week is a fairly new HCF Feature, but in a way it’s surprising that it has taken this long to present a scene from the Master of [read on...]

Death Trap (1977) Director: Tobe Hopper While I carry on the massive task of viewing and reviewing the entire list of Video Nasties, the latest film to grace my TV [read on...]