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…
THE EXORCIST UNTOLD (2023) 3 stars Reel2Reel Films. DVD and Digital. 11th December It’s the 50th Anniversary this year of The Exorcist – a film many consider one of the greatest horror movies ever made. I have to say it…
SAW X (2023) 3 stars. Lionsgate UK. UHD, Blu Ray, DVD. 11th December For whatever reason, I had never actually seen any of the Saw movies until recently (I know, I know, I should have my membership of the horror…
THE BLUE JEAN MONSTER (1991) 3 stars 88 Films. Blu Ray. Out Now Another delve into the archives of Golden Harvest as part of the 88 Asia Collection, The Blue Jean Monster (Jeuk ngau jai foo idk Jung Kwai) is…
THERE’S SOMETHING IN THE BARN (2023) 4 stars Vertigo Releasing. Cinemas 1st December There’s something of a sub-genre in horror of Christmas set movies bringing bloody mayhem to the festivities – think things like Rare Exports, Better Watch Out, Krampus…
WICKEDLY EVIL (2023) 2 stars 101 Films. Digital 13th November. This starts intriguingly, but rapidly goes downhill – with police sirens wailing and a call out about a robbery in progress. Two guys, Dancer (James Farrelly) and Gaz (Darryl Carter)…