Small Town Folk is an odd mixture of styles which shouldn't work and, well... it doesn't really. The ambience is befitting of a made for TV mini-series for all the family, probably shown around supper time in the build up towards Christmas and probably featuring wizards, goblins, annoying know-it-all tweenies and wardrobes or something. This nausea... Click to read more "Small Town Folk"
If ever there was a commendable lesson in modern day parenting then Tom Shankland's The Children is it. If you are going to be hippie, hipster, new-age, middle class, tosser parents and you force this upon your children then they will probably get sick in the head and kill you. Intuition provides an inclination of where the story is going to go fro... Click to read more "The Children"
Before Dawn tells the story of an estranged couple Meg (Joanne Mitchell) and Alex (Dominic Brunt) who go to the countryside in order to try and salvage their relationship. They leave the kids with Meg's mum and head off for their weekend, unbeknown to them however, a zombie outbreak is already beginning.I was lucky enough to see director Dominic B... Click to read more "Before Dawn"
It is a rare occurrence that a comedy movie combines the correct ingredients to slip comfortably into the horror genus. British director Paul Andrew Williams manages to do this impeccably with The Cottage, and manages to take what starts as a bumbling crime caper seamlessly into a more traditional slasher movie without relying on lame humour so oft... Click to read more "The Cottage"
Bane tells the story of four women who, after being administered an injection, awake in a medical facility with no memory of who they are or why they are there. They are subjected to various cruel and unusual tests, but things get decidedly worse when a masked surgeon begins to visit them, carving numbers into their skin. It soon becomes apparent t... Click to read more "Bane"
It's straight in with a gut-punch of visceral nastiness with Pig, the latest film from British director Adam Mason (Broken, The Devil's Chair, Blood River). A woman, terrified and covered in blood, flees along a deserted highway - where's she's intercepted by a man we'll come to know only as "Daddy" (Andrew Howard). When she hears his car engine, s... Click to read more "Pig"
As a Video Nasty that only paid a brief visit to the UK's DPP List, Xtro is a confusing choice of movie to be banned and an even more confusing early re-release considering some of the movies on the list that are only just making it back on to Britain's shelves. Undoubtedly the reason for the initial blip on the BBFC's radar is the infamous birthin... Click to read more "Xtro"
Severance is an effective British comedy-slasher with a star studded cast of British actors providing a typical wit dryer than a vagina in a nunnery. The movie provides a balance of humor and violence managing to extract absurdity from some disturbing situations inspiring simultaneous cringing and mirth. The gore is plentiful but realistic enough t... Click to read more "Severance"
In 2002 British director Danny Boyle proved that the concept of a zombie movie can be updated and used to scare a whole new generation of horror fans. The notion of a fast moving zombie rather than the slow shambling undead that we have come to expect is not a new idea and was first noticeably used in Dan O'Bannon's The Return of the Living Dead in... Click to read more "28 Days Later"
A cross between a slasher flick and a folklore horror, Creep is a British horror movie from writer and director Christopher Smith, taking place in the network of stations, tunnels and sewers that make up the London underground where Kate (German actress Franka Potente) is trapped after falling asleep on the platform on her way out for further carou... Click to read more "Creep"
