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"
Lucio Fulci has definitely created an Italian zombie movie classic with The Beyond. This movie is much more than your traditional slow moving zombie flick and at this moment in time I would rate it as Fulci's best zombie movie.The movie begins in Louisiana, 1927, when a group of vigilantes break into the "seven doors hotel" and drag the occupant of... Click to read more "The Beyond"
The Cabin in the Woods is a rarity in modern horror in that it gets a lot right. Directed by Drew Goddard (who also wrote the movie alongside Joss Whedon), it is apparent that his time writing and producing TV was well spent, mastering the art before delving into film. Whedon's influence is also very noticeable within the execution of the film, the... Click to read more "The Cabin in the Woods"
Harry Novak is best known for his prolific production and distribution of softcore exploitation cinema with titles as amazing as The Secret Sex Lives of Romeo and Juliet, The Exotic Dreams of Casanova and The Dirty Mind of Young Sally. He is also responsible for exposing the world to a few gems in the horror genre, most notably Axe and The Child.Th... Click to read more "The Child"
With a tagline harvested freshly from the mouth of the new recruit in the marketing department claiming the movie is from the creators of Alien, Dead and Buried's only connection with the aforementioned iconic sc-fi horror is that the screenplay was helped along by Dan O'Bannon who had a much bigger input in the outerspace classic than in this. A m... Click to read more "Dead and Buried"
There are two words that can instantly grab my attention: Nazis & Zombies. And if you have both of these things in one movie, you have my UNDIVIDED attention.There's one thing you need to know before you watch this movie - it doesn't take itself very seriously. If you're looking for some underlying theme on the atrocities the Nazi committed or sold... Click to read more "Dead Snow (Død snø)"
It is a widely little known fact that, despite his reputation for cartoonishly character filled, violent and perverted movies, Takashi Miike is also a creator of children's films and a creator of period movies (as in the corset-cleavage filled movies set in a period of time... not the kind downloadable from Germany). It is a narrower full-size fact... Click to read more "The Happiness of the Katakuris (Katakuri-ke no kôfuku)"
It is sometimes difficult to get away from the long-haired ghost girls in Japanese horror but if you look beneath the mainstream there are often little hidden gems amongst the plethora of superstitious, folklore inspired supernatural J-Horror. One such gem is Junk: Shiryô-gari, Atsushi Muroga's excursion into the zombie genre. Although there is not... Click to read more "Junk (Junk: Shiryô-gari)"
Directors who choose to make zombie outbreak, err, I mean virus outbreak movies don't make life very easy for themselves: in an already saturated market, if you elect to add to that canon then you will have a difficult task to make your work stand out from the rest. Is that the case with Mutants (2009)? Well, this is a competent riff on the theme, ... Click to read more "Mutants"
With the zombie movie market being quite saturated it must be difficult to come up with an original concept for a zombie movie without somebody having already been there and done that, also, with the popularity of high quality cult zombie movies from the masters in the genre, attempting to infiltrate this market with something a bit different is a ... Click to read more "Pop Punk Zombies"
