DEATH OCCURRED LAST NIGHT (1970) 4 stars Radiance Films. Blu Ray. Limited to 3000 copies. Out Now SLIGHT SPOILERS AHEAD… Donatella Berzaghi (Gillian Bray) has been missing for a month. Whilst she is 25, she has a mental age of…
MESSIAH OF EVIL (1974) 4 stars Radiance Films. Blu Ray. 27th November. Cert 15 Messiah of Evil is one of those relatively obscure, little seen, independent horrors from the 70s with a reputation that increases with each passing year as…
INSIDE THE MIND OF COFFIN JOE 4 stars Arrow. Limited Edition Blu Ray Box set One of the films in this wide ranging box set is called Hallucinations of a Deranged Mind, which is a good as a description as…
DEVIL GIRL FROM MARS (1954) 3 Stars StudioCanal Blu ray. Out Now Here’s a hokey slice of British B movie sci fi on StudioCanal’s Cult Classics label. A plane is blown up before the chunky title credit comes up accompanied…
PUNCH (2022) 3 stars Miracle Media. UK Digital 22nd January In PUNCH, Frankie (the actually pretty good Alina Allison) has managed to escape the dead-end drudgery of her coastal home town by bogging off to University. She has returned to…
THE CIVIL DEAD (2022) 3 stars Bulldog Film Distribution. Select cinemas and on demand 19th January 2024 Sadly THE CIVIL DEAD isn’t a movie about a zombie uprising during the American Civil War but rather a slacker comedy with an…
HIGH TENSION (2003) 4 stars Second Sight. 4K/Blu ray Dual. 22nd January Possibly best known as the slightly nonsensical but cool title Switchblade Romance in the UK, Second Sight have gone with the translation of it’s more appropriate French title…
4 stars Signature Entertainment. Digital Platforms 8th January Christopher Lee’s autobiography was also called Lord of Misrule – and inevitably any movie within the folk horror sub genre will be compared to a certain well known classic starring the famous…
BLANK (2022) 3 stars Sparky Pictures. UK Digital. 8th January With the ongoing interest in the use of Artificial Intelligence, it’s inevitable that filmmakers explore this new technology to hook their plot-line on to – though normally in a negative…
MURDER OBSESSION (1981) 3 stars Radiance Films. Blu ray. 18th December Ostensibly a giallo – the title Murder Obsession could be seen as a good description of that predominantly Italian sub-genre – this is has Riccardo Freda in the director’s…