ABRAHAM LINCOLN : VAMPIRE HUNTER Published in 2010, the comic book novel Abraham Lincoln : Vampire Hunter was another mash up in the vein of the same author’s Pride And Prejudice and Zombies and even though the genre was, even…

Cinema Review: Storage 24

Since the success of last year’s Attack the Block we’ve now got a flurry of British monster movies coming our way. First out of the gates is Storage 24 from Noel Clarke – something of a one man film industry…

Review: Panic

PANIC (1963) DVD Odeon Certificate: PG With their confused plots and demoralized logic, it is hardly surprising that film noir has so often employed the amnesia conceit. A genre primarily concerned with fumbling in the dark (both in solving labyrinthine…

A House Full Of Empty Rooms

I felt in need of another equilibrium-restoring nostalgia fix the other night and so I retired to bed with Bovril and hobnobs for a midnight movie double bill of British B’s courtesy of Renown Pictures. The movies in question were…

Hound of the Baskervilles

THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES (1981) DVD Mr. Bongo Films Certificate: PG Here’s a pub quiz question for you: Who is the most portrayed fictional character in the movies? Clue: It’s not Jesus Christ. According to the Guinness Book Of…

H.G. And Me

I’ve finally just about finished up on our special Hammer issue and boy is it looking great. Rick Melton’s Dracula cover is just sublime. Only the review section to do now and I’ve just sharpened my critical faculties on Blu-rays…

Review: The Doom Generation

THE DOOM GENERATION (1995) DVD Out Now. Second Sight Certificate: 18. “Eat my fuck!” The response given after suspicious shopkeeper Win Cock Suk asks Betty Page look-alike Amy Blue (Rose MacGowan) to pick her cigarette up off his floor. That…

Review: Don't Go In The House

DON’T GO IN THE HOUSE (1980) DVD Out Now. Arrowdrome. Certificate: 18 Donald Kohler is a lonely pyromaniac who’s still looking for the perfect match. The kind of girl that lights up the room. But there has always been one…