“A good film with very strong performances” In the hands of Tinseltown’s finest, the disappearance of a body from a morgue would be only the beginning of a rollercoaster adventure through Europe, with little time to ponder on the bizarreness of that one situation. Currently even the most mainstream of blockbusters can’t resist packing breakneck …
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“Sharp, fun and chest-burstingly funny!” The World’s End is a nostalgic buddy comedy inter-spliced with surreal science fiction and firm nods towards extraterrestrial invasion films like The Invasion of The Body Snatchers. In true ‘Cornetto Trilogy’ style it is set in a seemingly harmless and quintessential English town with a – you guessed it – …
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“Clever, thrilling, funny, creepy, and utterly compelling!” Christopher Fowler is what might be termed a stalwart of genre writing. Ever since his explosive debut novel Roofworld hit the stands, he’s been a writer whose work has provoked interest and admiration across the board. Fowler’s books often straddle genres, featuring elements of crime, horror, and science …
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“Chock-full of wonderfully diseased invention” Ed Gein’s name will be instantly familiar to most horror fans; the necrophile’s activities in late 50s rural Wisconsin inspired a few of the most famous films in the genre. Although Gein cannot be classified as a serial killer, having ‘only’ murdered two women, his obsession with death and his …
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“Zany!” This second sequel cuts all ties with the previous outing, and therefore with Cronenberg’s. The previous film had been a direct sequel to the first, and even attempted, not always successfully, to retain and even expand on that film’s more interesting ideas. Scanners III makes no such efforts. After a failed mugging unleashed her …
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“It really should have been a decent addition to the genre.” When sitting down to watch a slasher film from any decade, you shouldn’t expect to have your mind blown. What you should expect is blood, boobs, and bad acting. You see, while slasher films may not be wholly original thematically (often copy-and-pasting John Carpenter’s …
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“A great little alien home invasion thriller” Dark Skies is ‘from the producers of Sinister and Insidious’ according to the movie’s publicity. But then, one might add with a yawn, aren’t they all these days? But wait. Despite being put down by several reviewers as ‘Paranormal Activity with UFOS’, Dark Skies is actually rather better …
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“The blackest of horror comedies!” A weird, quirky, curious and just plain odd little item from 1968 – if there is one film, UK cult DVD and blu-ray company, Arrow was created to release, it is Jack Hill’s Spider Baby. Never before afforded a release in the UK, it’s only fitting that the wait has been …
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“The Sleep Room is a psychological ghost story that is heavy on the psychiatry but light on scares.” The Sleep Room is the story of James Richardson, a promising young psychiatrist who is singled out by the enigmatic yet controversial Dr. Hugh Maitland to aid his research at the Wyldehope Hall mental institution in Suffolk. …
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“Five incredible stories!” Back in the 1970s, thanks to Hammer, Amicus, NEL, Futura et al, the horror genre evolved into something altogether more exploitative and sleazy. Book covers were filled with lurid and often gory images, and movie posters contained visuals that would give the BBFC dreadful nightmares. The films themselves contained more breasts than …
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