DVD


Salad Days – The Movie

Salad Days – The Movie (New Rose Films / MVDvisual) Outstanding music documentary chronicling the formative and influential Washington DC Punk/Hardcore scene between 1980 and 1990. Salad Days features interviews with the most obvious players…



The Dead 2: India

The Dead 2: India (Altitude) A stunning follow-up to the Ford brothers’ ‘The Dead’, ‘The Dead 2: India’ is more of the same:, seeing a stranded American struggling to traverse a terrifying dark continent, where…


The Voices

The Voices (Arrow Films) Do not be concerned to see Ryan Reynolds name headlining this blackly comic psychological horror, because this is more a tour de force turn in keeping with his ‘Buried’ role than…


The Asylum

The Asylum – Director Marcus Nispel, Starring Stephen Lang, Kelly Blatz, Brittany Curran (StudioCanal) The premise is by no means new – a group of teens eager for a party decide on an abandoned asylum…


It Follows Competition

Thanks to the super-cool folks at Fetch Publicity, and to celebrate the DVD and Blu-Ray release of ‘It Follows’, we’ve got a limited edition ‘It Follows’ shirt to giveaway, and so if you want to…


Society

Society (Arrow Video) The late Eighties grist mill churned out so many shocking horror films – many of them shockingly bad, it has to be said – it took something that was a different shade…


Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (RLJ Entertainment) If Robert Browning had lived in the same alternate history and parallel world as both Jonathan Strange and Gilbert Norrell, then his most famous verse may very well…


Unhallowed Ground

Unhallowed Ground ( Kaleidoscope) There were high hopes as this disc was inserted into the player, as ‘Unhallowed Ground’ has apparently been well received on the festival circuit, but sadly it’s something of a damp…


Return to Sender

Return to Sender (Arrow) No, this isn’t an Elvis biopic (unfortunately), it’s a quietly lurid rape/revenge potboiler. Without dropping too many spoilers, a nurse is raped in her own home by a stranger, and then,…


Digging Up The Marrow

Digging Up The Marrow (Kaleidoscope) A truly independent lo-fi effort, with only half a dozen people involved in total, ‘Digging Up The Marrow’ is a monster film made by monster film fans for monster film fans, and proves that…