To badly paraphrase any number of Bond villains, ‘Ahhh Mr Bond, after four years, we’ve been expecting you…’ And it has been a long four years, during which at one point it was even suggested that Daniel Craig’s future as…
The Mammoth Book of Slasher Movies(RRP £7.99, Robinson, 2012) As someone who remembers the furore surrounding the so-called ‘video nasties’ of the mid-‘80s, I was pleased to discover that Peter Normanton’s Mammoth Book of Slasher Movies goes into forensic detail…
Following on from Rio Bravo, Assault on Precinct 13 and most recently, Attack the Block, this is the latest in a long line of movies involving a motley group forced together by circumstance against a seemingly overwhelming foe. The plot…
GOD OF VAMPIRES (2010) DVD Out Now Safecracker Pictures Certificate: 18 Blood fire extinguishers and authentic intestines. Sadly not items covered by Jeffrey Dahmer’s contents insurance, but gory instruments contributing to the special effects of God Of Vampires. It is…
Dark Side readers will certainly be familiar with Calum Waddell, who is one of our most prolific contributors. When he’s not writing articles for us or numerous other film magazines, Calum is filming ‘extras’ for DVD companies for his company…
Piranha 3DD – (2012) Blu Ray/DVD review Out Now Entertainment In Video. Certificate: 18 Horror in 3D has always had a bit of a chequered history having both embraced and exploited the latest gimmick. The 2010 remake had entertaining characters,…
PUPPET MASTER (1989) BLU-RAY Out Now 88 Films Certificate: 18 Blade, Jester, Tunneller, Pinhead, Leech Woman. Nothing to do with any wrestling foundation, but the Famous Five of 80s horror cinema, kicking off the homuncular japes and misdemeanours in 1989…
Dark Side issue 149 hits the newsstands on Thursday 30th August, but if you were at FrightFest this past bank holiday weekend you could have picked up an advance copy there from our friends at The Cinema Store. This issue…
As I’ve already mentioned, our Hammer issue was our biggest-selling one to date, so there are obviously lots of you out there who still appreciate Britain’s oldest and most iconic horror studio. Hammer completists will also note that the new…
THE MONK (2011) DVD/BLU-RAY Out Now Metrodome Certificate: 15 Perching ravens. Check. Oodles of gargoyles. Check. Cemetery under a full moon, preferably with dark clouds billowing in front. Check, check, check. Further truisms in this superficial Gothic-by-numbers include gloomy cloisters,…