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…
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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,…
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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…
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CRAWL OR DIE to premiere on Horror Channel
Oklahoma Ward’s much-praised CRAWL OR DIE is to receive its UK TV premiere on Horror Channel on Fri 17 July, 10.55pm. The indie alien-monster shocker, starring Nicole Alonso as the unstoppable ‘Tank’, takes claustrophobia to…
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Film4 FrightFest 2015 announces opening and closing films
The 16th edition of Film4 FrightFest kicks off in skin-crawling fashion with the European premiere of David Keating’s blood-freezing rural nightmare CHERRY TREE, starring Anna Walton (Hellboy 2, Soulmate) and rising star Naomi Battrick (Down…
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Find out how it all began for THE GALLOWS – DIRECTOR’S STORY
Warner Bros. Pictures UK and New Line Cinema present Blumhouse Productions “THE GALLOWS” – in UK CINEMAS FROM JULY 17 2015. Find out how it all began for Directors Chris Lofing and Travis Cluff, in…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Horror Channel to broadcast ‘Christopher Lee Night’ on Thurs 2nd July
Horror Channel are clearing the post 9pm schedules on Thursday 2nd July for a \’Christopher Lee Night\’ in tribute to the great actor and horror Icon\’s recent death. The films to be screened are: 9pm…
