A Few Screws Loose is independent horror director / producer / screenwriter Craig McIntyre's first full length feature. The movie promised to deliver an experience that was "not for the faint hearted" and it definitely delivers. It is obvious that the movie was made on a shoestring budget but the intensity of the whole experience makes this easy to... Click to read more "A Few Screws Loose"
A Tale of Two Sisters (or Janghwa, Hongryeon which translates as Rose Flower, Red Lotus) is a South Korean chiller which, although typical of a lot of supernatural Korean horror, is a superbly crafted story with an almost fairytale-like undertone and a disturbing and unexpected twist . Directed by Ji-Woon Kim (who's only other notable horror that I... Click to read more "A Tale of Two Sisters (Janghwa, Hongryeon)"
The more prolific half of the Pang Brothers released Ab-Normal Beauty (Sei mong se jun) in 2004. Oxide Pang Chun seems to be unsure whether he wants to make a morbid documentation of an obsessive photographer's fascination with death or a slasheresque snuff movie... so he does both. Rather than clumsily merge of the two concepts the movie turns int... Click to read more "Ab-Normal Beauty (Sei mong se jun)"
The impact of Lewis Carroll's (less commonly known as Charles Lutwidge Dodgson's) "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" on modern entertainment is undeniable. Writer and director Jay Lee dips into this literary phenomenon with Alyce (also known as Alyce Kills). The film deals with the mental degeneration of Alyce as she escapes her directionless life ... Click to read more "Alyce"
As the end of the eighties loomed, slasher movie makers began to struggle to find original methods and motivations for serial killers to deprive the innocent of the rest of their life. To keep it real, before the later decades resorted to supernatural fast food mascots and murderous baked goods, writer and director Dick Maas (known for The Lift and... Click to read more "Amsterdamned"
Between directing Blue Erotic Climax and Porno Esotic Love, prolific filmmaker Joe D'Amato took a break from his sleazy pornographic exploits and directed his first non-erotic horror Anthropophagus. Also known as Grim Reaper, Man-Eater and The Beast among a multitude of other names (as is quite common for cheap Italian horror), Anthropophagus was d... Click to read more "Anthropophagus"
Time for some hyper-real 70s Nikkatsu "roman porno" in Assault! Jack the Ripper (Bôkô Kirisaki Jakku) - here is a world of jaded sexual appetites, bad hair and gratuitous patisserie, brought to you by the inimitable worldwide-weird specialists Mondo Macabro.We start by meeting a disgruntled, rather bolshie waitress who works in a busy Japan tearoo... Click to read more "Assault! Jack the Ripper"
Takashi Miike's Audition has to be one of my all time favorite Asian horror movies, there are probably a number of reasons for this. On my first viewing I was shocked more than I had ever been before by a movie, Audition gave me my first taste of the extremities to which a Japanese horror movie could go (having only seen Ringu and Dark Water previo... Click to read more "Audition (Ôdishon)"
The recent influx of horror remakes has led to a large number of disappointing horror experiences (mostly scanty J-Horror remakes). Director Glen Morgan (most renowned in the slasher world for his production and writing skills on Final Destination and Final Destination 3) has interrupted this trend of disappointments with his praiseworthy remake of... Click to read more "Black Christmas"
As the earliest movie on the video nasty list (1963) Blood Feast (also known as Feast of Flesh and Egyptian Blood Feast) is also surprisingly one of the most worthy. Although the movie is old and the effects are very unconvincing compared to many others in the list, the gore is quite extreme and the storyline is quite depraved considering the era a... Click to read more "Blood Feast"
