Ring (20th Anniversary Edition) (Arrow)
How do you even begin to review Ring? I mean, we’ve all seen it and it’s great. Very scary. Don’t watch the video. Don’t answer the phone. Stay away from wells. You know, you get…
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Crimson Peak (Limited Edition) (Arrow Video)
The first and only time I watched Crimson Peak, I don’t remember enjoying it all that much. I guess when you come to expect the nuanced brilliance of things like Pans Labyrinth, The Orphanage, and…
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Arrow Video Frightfest renews New Blood talent search
ARROW VIDEO FRIGHTFEST RENEWS NEW BLOOD TALENT SEARCH SECOND YEAR FOR HORROR FEATURE WRITERS INITIATIVE IN ASSOCIATION WITH QUEENSBURY PICTURES After the success of last year’s inaugural ‘New Blood’ search for new writers in the horror…
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Phantasm 1 – 5: Limited Edition Blu-Ray Collection – Don Coscarelli & David Hartman (Arrow Video)
Any horror fan will tell you that the original 1979 Phantasm film is a classic of the genre. In an era of tired generic slasher films, it introduced wildly imaginative science fiction elements into a…
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Pieces (Arrow Video)
First of all, what do you honestly expect when viewing a video nasty from 1982 called Pieces? Okay, so it didn’t make the official video nasty list, but it easily could have, such is the…
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Cohen & Tate (Arrow Video)
Film often reflects the period in which it was made and if you cut Cohen & Tate open it would bleed the nineteen eighties. Made at the tail end of a decade in which greed…
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C.H.U.D. (Arrow Video)
After a spate of disappearances, a local police captain is forced to take matters into his own hands to uncover a grisly cover-up involving the cities underground population in this infamous cult horror flick. For…
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The Initiation (Arrow Video)
The Initiation can’t seem to decide whether it wants to be a balls-to-the-wall slasher or a psychological drama about suppressed memories and recurring nightmares, and by pitching itself towards both camps, it falls kinda short…
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The Burning (Arrow Video)
Probably the best of the Friday The 13th clones (Tom Savini, who did the special effects, actually passed on Friday the 13th Part II to work on it) The Burning has gained considerable notoriety over the…
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Vamp (Arrow Video)
It’s sad but true – not all things from the Eighties are as good as you remember them, and whilst Vamp isn’t horrendous when re-visited 30 years down the road, it also hasn’t aged particularly…
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Burnt Offerings (Arrow Video)
Burnt Offerings is one of those films whose images never quite leave your head. Despite having seen it only twice – a third time counting this review – since its release in 1976, its most…
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Slugs (Arrow Video)
As a teenager I consumed books like Slugs, by Shaun Hutson, which were basically tasteless exercises in excess and gore that totally appealed to my warped sense of humour and love of video nasties. There…
