ODDITY (2024) 4 starsAcorn Media international. Blu ray. 6th January ODDITY is a creepy Irish horror, the sophomore effort from writer and director Damian McCarthy, after CAVEAT (2020), which I haven’t seen. Dani (Carolyn Bracken) and her psychiatrist husband Ted…
THE WALKING DEAD: DARYL DIXON – The Book of Carol 3 stars Acorn Media International. Blu ray. Out Now The expansion of The Walking Dead ‘Universe’ continues with Season 2 of the Daryl Dixon spin-off. Whether that is a good…
NOSFERATU: THE REAL STORY (2024) 3 stars Reel 2 Reel Films. Digital. Out Now With the imminent release of the much anticipated Robert Eggers version of ‘Nosferatu’, this documentary by Robin Bextor (father of Sophie-Ellis, in case you were curious)…
THE LAST VIDEO STORE (2023) 3 stars Arrow Video. Limited Edition Blu ray. Now Available. The film opens with a man in his front room. A strange VHS tape in his hand. The TV is showing as static. He bangs…
COME HOME (2023) 3 starsMiracle Media. Digital. Out Now A couple – Mel (Caitlin Zoz) and Ikenna (Chinaza Ushe) – are driving through small town, backwoods America. They are moving there as she has inherited a cabin, which has been…
KNIFE UNDER THE THROAT (1986) 3 stars 88 Films. Blu ray. 9th December Original title: Le couteau sous la gorge It will come as no surprise to anyone watching this French attempt at a giallo to learn that writer/director Claude…
CREEP (2014) 3 starsSecond Sight Films. Limited Edition and Standard Blu Ray. 9th December Aaron (Patrick Brice) is a videographer, who gets a new job to go out to a remote location – one proviso for the gig is “discretion…
FROM BEYOND (1986) 4 stars88 Films. 4K UHD and Blu Ray. 9th December Crawford Tillinghast (Jeffrey Combs) is running tests on the Resonator, a machine he assisted in developing with Dr Edward Pretorius (Ted Sorel). If it works it will…
THE ADDICTION (1995) 3 starsArrow Video. 4K UHD. 9th December THE ADDICTION has director Abel Ferrara and writer Nicholas St John exploring a different take on vampirism which it equates with drug taking and also brings in the AIDs epidemic…
EYEBALL (1975) 3 stars 88 Films. Limited edition UHD and Blu ray. 2nd December EYEBALL (original Italian title Gatti Rossi in un labirinto di vetro) is number 45 in 88 Films ongoing Italian Collection and is giallo horror from Umberto…
VOICE OF SHADOWS (2023) 3 starsMiracle Media. Digital. 2nd December VOICE OF SHADOWS is a low key supernatural horror set in a possibly haunted house – Gabriel (Guillermo Blanco) is married to Emma (Corrinne Mica). He also has a younger…
SPEAK NO EVIL (2022) 4 starsAcorn Media International. Blu ray, DVD and Digital. 2nd December I was blown away and gripped by the uncompromisingly bleak SPEAK NO EVIL when it first came out – a Danish horror with social commentary…