The Bad Shepherd
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THE BAD SHEPHERD (2024)

THE BAD SHEPHERD (2024) Directed by Geo Santini On digital in the UK Four friends accidentally knock down a woman on a country lane with their car on their way to a hunting trip. After […]

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LOVE WILL TEAR US APART (2023)

Coming Soon to UK Streaming Abusive parents, bullies, con artists, and creepy drunks might not seem like the most appropriate subjects for a slasher-comedy hybrid, but writer and director Ken’ichi Ugana gives it his best […]

Black Mask
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BLACK MASK [1996]

HONG KONG AVAILABLE ON BLU-RAY: NOW, from EUREKA ENTERTAINMENT, LIMITED EDITION 2 DISC SET [2000 COPIES] RUNNING TIME: 87 mins [International Export Version], 99 mins [Hong Kong Version], 100 mins [Taiwanese Version], Extended Version [102 […]

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A House on the Bayou

A family on a make or break holiday retreat gets some unwelcome visitors in Blumhouse’s latest home invasion horror that offers up some ludicrous twists…. OK so I admit, I probably enjoyed A House on the […]

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PET SEMATARY: Bloodlines

  Stephen King’s classic story gets a prequel movie, that suggests the franchise, much like the dead on show….should have stayed buried….. Some horror movies, should never really become a franchise. When you have man […]

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CUT

  The Australian slasher from 2000 that die-hard genre fans will remember had Kylie Minogue in the Drew Barrymore role…. Much like Halloween before it, the success of SCREAM in 1996 caused a mini Slasher boom, not quite on […]

Ghost

BED REST

  Ordered to bed rest, a heavily pregnant Melissa Barrera (Scream) starts to see ghouls in the night, but is it all in her head in this “seen it all before” horror! Having survived two […]

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My House

A Dad with secrets. A daughter determined to discover the truth! Intrigue awaits!…. Fresh from the memory of playing the evil Bren in the Irish masterpiece KIN, Francis Magee turns to portraying a Dad who at times can just […]

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Mindcage

A B-movie 90’s style serial killer flick which sees a decent cast try their own Silence of the Lambs story- the results are questionable! Not long after Se7en came out to a resounding success, the thriller genre […]

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Black Friday

Bruce Campbell is back among the dead in this low budget caper that harks back to a golden age of horror daftness…. For every serious horror release in which we use Hereditary as an example, there is the […]

Hatching
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Hatching

Careful at what hatches…. Hanna Bergholm’s neat debut feature shows that even a simple story can bring the much needed terror in a tale that has won much critical acclaim not just in its own home […]

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SLAYERS

  Bring back Buffy….. Despite the presence of some horror favourites in the line up, that include Thomas Jane and Malin Akerman, Slayers is one of those horror films that tries it hardest to be “cool” but ends up giving […]

Cult TV

Baby Reindeer

A kind gesture….41,071 emails later…. For the last few days, scanning Social Media for no reason apart from it being a habit, the words “Baby Reindeer!” has been appearing on a regular basis from excited […]

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Civil War (2024)

CIVIL WAR (2024) Directed by Alex Garland A tyrannical leader wants to overthrow American democracy, and a highly polarised public is at each other’s throats. Riots and violence are breaking out, and people have lost […]

Cutter's Way
Crime

CUTTER’S WAY (1981)

CUTTER’S WAY (1981) Directed by Ivan Passer On Fun City Edition Blu-Ray from Radiance Films After an evening’s business, gigolo Richard Bone’s car breaks down in a darkened alleyway during torrential rainfall. Whilst contending with […]