Film

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…


The Last Survivors

The Last Survivors (Kaleidoscope) Everything is cyclical, and the chances are, that if it’s happened before, it’ll happen again and with the nineteen eighties resonating so firmly with the second decade of the twenty first…



Christopher Adamson

Having spent the last three decades as a mainstay of the silver screen, appearing in films as diverse as ‘The Young Americans’, ‘Freakshow’, ‘Judge Dredd’ and ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest’, and having…


Fifty Shades of Erotica

Fifty Shades of Erotica (Naughty Films) Blimey, I’m feeling a little flustered and hot under the collar after sitting through the fifty ‘classic’ erotic (or as my old dear used to call it, amongst other…



Wolves

Wolves (Altitude Film Entertainment) Recently, on more than a few occasions, I’ve found myself despairing about the shiny, shimmering, twinkling morass of tedium that the heavyweight monsters of horror cinema have found themselves plunged into…


Halo: Nightfall

Halo: Nightfall (Anchor Bay (DVD)/ Content Media (digital)) I don’t play video games, and the fact that I still refer to the medium as video games, should give you a pretty good idea of the…