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Sweetpea

October 17, 2024 Ross Hughes 0

Once more Ella Purnell shines brightly in this familiar but enjoyable tale of murder and chaos…. If Dexter Morgan showed us anything apart from how NOT to end a TV show (twice), is how easy it is to […]

The Moor

July 20, 2024 Ross Hughes 0

Atmospheric and dread, first-Time director Chris Cronin delivers one of the finest British horror film in years….. Its starts with a simple yet frightening set-piece. Its 1996 and the fore-boding score already weeps from the screen as […]

Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F

July 6, 2024 Ross Hughes 0

Axel Foley is back in 90210 for the first time since 1994, but does he bring with him that memorable heat once more?…. Having a re-watch of the first three films of this 80/90s fan […]

INFESTED aka VERMINES

May 26, 2024 Ross Hughes 0

The French Arachnophobia…. For years, sharks have been the big thing that has delighted horror fans, what with the vicious bite of The Reef franchise, to the B-Movie love for the ridiculous Sharkanado franchise and countless other titles that […]

MARGAUX

April 25, 2024 Ross Hughes 0

A bogeyman in the shape of a smart house offers the gore in this “Demon Seed” variant for the modern generation….. Horror combined with modern technology has been a stable within the genre for […]

A House on the Bayou

April 21, 2024 Ross Hughes 0

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 […]

There’s Something Wrong With The Children

April 21, 2024 Ross Hughes 0

Evil kids run amok in a horror that fails to reach its potential….. Judging by the title, some horror fans may be expecting its a sequel to the underrated 2008 British flick The Children, a horror that saw […]

CUT

April 20, 2024 Ross Hughes 0

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 […]

BED REST

April 20, 2024 Ross Hughes 0

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 […]

My House

April 19, 2024 Ross Hughes 0

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 […]

Mindcage

April 19, 2024 Ross Hughes 0

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 […]

Black Friday

April 18, 2024 Ross Hughes 0

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

April 18, 2024 Ross Hughes 0

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 […]

SLAYERS

April 18, 2024 Ross Hughes 0

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 […]

You Can’t Kill Stephen King

April 14, 2024 Ross Hughes 0

An eye-catching title that sadly the film itself fails to match….. Thanks to its imaginative title, this slasher from 2012 only came to my attention this weekend and I honestly thought I may have missed […]

SCREAM VI (2023)

March 9, 2023 Ross Hughes 0

GHOSTFACE is back……again! And this time there is no Sydney Prescott to stop him…. So, onto Scream VI Yes, you read that right! Scream VI. By now a sixth film in a horror franchise […]

The Retaliators (2021)

September 19, 2022 Ross Hughes 0

A gore-drenched heavy metal revenge nasty style thriller that lashes the blood for its core audience…. Let’s make this simple! There will be an audience out there for this nasty horror style thriller that is […]

Day Shift

August 20, 2022 Ross Hughes 0

Jamie Foxx is hunting down Vampires, in this overlong and quickly tiresome Netflix actioner…. An opening act in which Bud (Jamie Foxx) whips out a shotgun full of wooden pellets and has a slam-dunk with […]