The Hughes Verdict
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 […]
There’s Something Wrong With The Children
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 […]
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 […]
You Can’t Kill Stephen King
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)
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)
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 […]
PREY (2022)
The Predator returns to Earth once more in a back to basics approach that proves very much that the hunt is back on…. I can’t start this review without putting my hand up and admitting […]
Student Body
A high school slasher that offers the kills, but lacks the thrills…… These days to make a slasher film you have to pick either Path A or Path B. If you go down the first […]
The Jack in the Box: Awakening
Jack’s back !in a premise that would have Pinhead looking on and thinking…”this seems a tad familiar” A desperate woman plays with an old antique box which results in the release of a murderous creature from […]
The Gray Man
Gosling goes all Bourne in a frantic actioner from the Russo brothers….. With chunky dialogue like “007 was taken!“, The Gray Man, the new £200m action piece with a stellar cast from NETFLIX, may shoot high with ambition, but […]