YOUR HOST (2025) 3 stars World Premiere at FrightFest 2025 on 22nd August YOUR HOST sets its stall from the opening – A video camera. ‘Congratulations Jake. You are our winner’. Except it doesn’t look like it, as he has…
THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE: THE BEGINNING (2006) 3 stars Arrow Video. Limited edition 4K UHD. 25th August With the numerous sequels, reimaginings or whatever spun off from Tobe Hooper’s seminal horror movie, I guess it was inevitable that someone would…
THE INNKEEPERS (2011) 4 stars Second Sight. Limited Edition dual 4K UHD/Blu ray. 25th August Whilst it is obvious from his output that director Ti West is a genre fan, it wasn’t until his recent X trilogy with Mia Goth…
THE MAN IN THE WHITE VAN (2023) 4 stars Kaleidoscope Entertainment. DVD, Blu-ray and Digital. 1st September Of course a man in a white van has rather different connotations in the U.K. — somebody doing some work on your house…
PERPETRATOR (2023) 3 stars Arrow Films. Limited Edition Blu ray. 18th August Jonquil ‘Jonny’ Baptiste (Kiah McKirnan) breaks into houses – she takes what she steals to a fence to get money – though he is violent towards her. She…
THE BANISHED (2024) 3 stars Blue Finch Film Releasing. Digital 28th July Original title: Baal A huge forest. A panicked woman (we soon learn is Grace) has been camping there – someone, who was with her, is missing from their…
SEVEN DEATHS IN THE CAT’S EYE (1973) 3 stars 88 Films. Blu ray. 28th July Italian title: La morte negli occhi del Hatton Those Italian’s do like a weird title for their thrillers – often involving some kind of animal.…
SAINT CLARE (2024) 4 stars 101 Films. Digital. 21st July Clare (Bella Thorne) is sitting at the bus stop, waiting for a bus that isn’t coming. Her phone is dead. A man in a car pulls up and claims he…
MURDER ROCK (1984) 3 stars 88 Films. Limited Edition UHD and Blu ray or separate Blu Ray. Italian Collection #89. 14th July Screen title: Murder-Rock: Dancing Death Aka: Murderock – Uccide a passo di danza/The Demon is Loose At the…
NIGHT TERROR (2025) 3 stars Signature Entertainment. Digital. 14th July Aka Eye for an Eye Mr Sandman is real – on screen graphic informs us. A dream monster that gives nightmares to bullies – if they don’t reconsider their ways…
FRANKIE FREAKO (2024) 3 stars Lightbulb Film Distribution. Digital. 14th July Conor (Conor Sweeney) works in a boring office. His boss tells him his presentation is a bit bland. He needs to spice it up or not get a promotion.…
WATCH THE SKIES 4 stars Signature Entertainment. Initially exclusive to Showcase. 11th July WATCH THE SKIES is a fun, throwback science fiction adventure from Sweden, which was originally titled UFO SWEDEN and is the first film to fully utilise a…