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Beneath

Beneath DVD (2013 Dir. Ben Ketal) The concept is hardly new. In ‘Beneath’  a group of miners become trapped underground, the air begins to turn toxic and, as sanity slips away from them, they paranoid…


The Long Good Friday

The Long Good Friday (Arrow Films) Decades before ‘Lock Stock And Two Smoking Barrels’ and ‘Snatch’, there was the eminently quotable  ‘The Long Good Friday’, a British gangster film with both heart and bollocks. Central to…


Out of the Dark

Out of the Dark (Entertainment One) Everyone has a secret cinematic fear; films that scare them so badly they make you cry like a little girl who’s just watched a fluffy little kitten get squashed…


Zombieworld

Zombieworld (Image Entertainment) I remember the old days, when zombie flicks were a rare and much vaunted visual treat and something to look forward to with slavering joy, delight and glee, all of which would…



Heavenly Sword

Heavenly Sword (TriCoast) There’s no way around this and there’s no just way hide it any more. The truth was bound to come out at some point, so it might as well be now. Deep…


Judas Ghost

Judas Ghost (Sony) Wow, this is how you make a decent film for a pittance! Basically featuring just four people (and a ghost) in one room (a church hall), you couldn’t go much more basic…


Twisted Tales

Twisted Tales (Bulldog Film Distribution) For giving the world ‘Fright Night’, Tom Holland was, is and always will be “the man”, and even if it had been his sole outing into the annals of horror…


Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead

Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead (Studiocanal)  If you’re a fan of low-budget underground horrors like ‘Brain Dead’ and ‘Dog Soldiers’, you’re going to dig the hell out of this, because it has a similarly irreverent,…


Stonehearst Asylum

Stonehearst Asylum (Lionsgate) Based on a short story, ‘The System Of Doctor Tarr And Professor Fether’, by Edgar Allen Poe, ‘Stonehearst Asylum’ is a brooding and dramatic study of the treatment of mental illness, with…


Falcon Rising

Falcon Rising (Spirit Entertainment) If, like me, you grew up in the video age and spent more than your fair share of time in tape rental -shops, pouring over martial arts classics and fist/ gun-toting…