HCF Reviews
Year Made: 2009
Horror
Heartless (2009) by Matt Wavish (Pazuzu)
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCmvhghjmsk[/youtube] (possible spoilers) Jim Sturgess is superb as the main character with a heart shaped birthmark which cause him to shy away from people and live a secluded life, with his Mum, as a photographer. […]
Horror
Harpoon: Reykjavik Whale Watching Massacre (2009) by Matt Wavish (Pazuzu)
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQgNRCHfgMk[/youtube] To be fair to this tacky horror, its heart is in the right place, it just doesn’t deliver the goods. The introduction is filled with upsetting scenes of whales being harpooned and slaughtered. It […]
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
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Fantasy
SOLOMON KANE [2009]
USA AVAILABLE ON DVD RUNNING TIME: 104 mins REVIEWED BY: Dr Lenera In the 1600s, Solomon Kane is a bloodthirsty English pirate who fights for Queen Elizabeth. When one of the Devil’s Reapers shows […]
Mystery
The Secret In Their Eyes (2010) by Matt Wavish
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TjR3pTWk_0[/youtube] This superb Spanish thriller has had some exceptional reviews, and I believe won the Best Foreign Film award at last year’s Oscars and deservedly so. The Secret in Their Eyes is a full bodied, relentless, passionate […]
Giallo
Amer (2009) by Pazuzu
(POSSIBLE SPOILERS) The clue to this almost silent movie is in the title, Amer is French for “bitter”. If you believe this to be a plot spoiler then your badly mistaken, there is minimal plot […]
Ghost
Shock Labyrinth 3D (2009) by Pazuzu
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cenVZTQ-2f4[/youtube] OK, so I didn’t actually watch this in 3D but I could see where the 3D scenes were, and honestly they didn’t look all that good so thankfully it would seem I didn’t miss […]
Horror
Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever (2009)
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YGGj1X2TwA[/youtube] It’s hard to believe this was directed by Ti West, the guy who recently gave us the truly excellent House of the Devil. Cabin Fever 2 is a sequel bursting with ideas and style, […]
HCF Reviews
SURVIVAL OF THE DEAD [2009]
On Plum Island, off the coast of Delaware, there is a long feud between the families of the patriarchs Captain Patrick O’Flynn, who wants to eliminate the zombies, and Seamus Muldoon, who intends to keep […]
Drama
Blood River (2009) by Dj Vivace
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sj6YOKAkN_w[/youtube] Welcome back Adam Mason, the director of the rather clever Broken and the highly impressive Devil’s Chair. With Blood River Mason takes a unique approach to horror that is at times fascinating and for […]
Horror
Splice (2010) by Dj Vivace
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6o_Vl2f07Q[/youtube] Reviews of this film often stated how it doesn’t quite live up to what it could have been, and I for one agree. I was never quite sure if I was going to like […]
Comedy
The Hole (2009) by Pazuzu (formerly Dj Vivace)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liaT_q7TKlk Joe Dante returns to his horror roots with this fun filled adventure into the darkest fears of three friends. Firstly, after watching this film I must admit the advertising was all wrong. This is […]