The Sand
The Sand (Icon / Frightfest Presents…) Don’t ask me how a film about a killer beach works so well, especially when boasting CGI effects this bad, but it does! Primarily thanks to some skilful direction…
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Film4 FrightFest announces line-up for Halloween 2015 event
James Purefoy and Olga Kurylenko lead guest line-up A totally shocking threequel, a haunted house of horrors, demonic possession, claustrophobic tank terror, a head-spinning brutal thriller and a surprise movie…it can only be the Film4…
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An Inspector Calls
An Inspector Calls (BBC DVD) I have to confess that I, like many others, don’t come to this piece cold. In fact, the J.B.Priestley masterpiece has been part of my consciousness for most of my…
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Horror Channel treats viewers to Haunted Halloween Season
All treats and no tricks…Horror Channel celebrates Halloween with a special HAUNTED HALLOWEEN SEASON, a spectral selection of movies which will take possession of the nation’s TVs every night for two weeks in October –…
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David Moody signs deal to bring his bestselling Hater series to big screen
Hook Pictures producer Ed Barratt and David Moody announce a deal to bring Moody’s classic novel of violence and paranoia – HATER – to the screen. David Moody independently released HATER onto an unsuspecting world…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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My Life In Film… Daniel Firth (Cradle Of Filth)
Evil Dead II I was quite young when I first saw this film, catching it by chance on late night TV when a friend was staying over. I vividly recall the opening scene describing the…
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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…
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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…
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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…
