DVD/BLU-RAY Out Now. Lionsgate. Certificate: 15. There is something a little Fight Club about The Cabin In The Woods. Those who’ve seen it can’t talk about it, for fear of giving away its über-smart meta-concept. it should make a critic’s…
DVD. Out Now. Code Red Releasing. Certificate: N Tormented artist Dennis Lipscombe takes a suicidal swan dive off the top of a sleazy Los Angeles tenement building on Halloween night, but he “survives” a near-death experience and is possessed by…
Blu-ray Out Now. www.movietyme.com Certificate: N A welcome BD release for Stuart Gordon’s horror classic, about some very grisly fun and games down at the Miskatonic Morgue, Massachusetts. That’s where precocious boffin student Herbert West (Jeffrey Combs) is testing out…
DVD/BLU-RAY Out Now. Anchor Bay. Certificate: 18 A yorkshireman wants to have his favourite pet immortalised after it dies, so goes to the jewellers: “Can thee mek us a gold statue of yon dog?” “Aye. Do you want it 18…
DVD Out Now. Revelation Films Certificate: 15 “Man lives in the sunlit world of what he believes to be reality. But there is, unseen by most, an underworld, a place that is just as real but not as brightly lit……
Out Now. Studio Canal. Certificate: PG. “Beware the beat of the cloth-wrapped feet!” The third and least of Hammer’s Mummy movies (after The Mummy and Curse of the Mummy’s Tomb) begins with a long and rather boring flashback prologue set…
Blu-ray and DVD. Out Now. Eureka! Certificate: PG. I’m a big fan of Fritz Lang’s work and it’s great to see a Blu-ray release for Lang’s early two-part fantasy from his UFA days, a five-hour epic packed with extraordinary visuals…
Blu-ray Out Now. Studio Canal. Certificate: 15. Shot back-to-back with Dracula – Prince Of Darkness on the same sets and with many of the same cast members, this entertaining movie features a barnstorming performance by Christopher Lee as the legendary…
Blu-ray Out Now. StudioCanal. Certificate: 15. One of the best films Hammer ever made, this excellent chiller even delighted Dennis Wheatley, on whose classic supernatural thriller Richard Matheson based his fine screenplay.
DVD/BLU-RAY Out Now. Third Window Certificate: 18. A girl dances on a beach, the tide gently lapping her feet, silhouetted against cool blue light. Suddenly crashing waves pound the soundtrack as hysterical shrieks are heard, the image convulsing spastically. A…
DVD and Blu-ray. Out Now. Studio Canal. Certificate: 15. Paranormal Activity’s Oren Peli produced and came up with the storyline of this initially intriguing but ultimately disappointing low budget chiller. The slim tale has a group of young adults traveling…
Out Now. Universal. Certificate: 18. Though made for DVD, this shot-in-Romania werewolf epic has quite a decent budget and some grandly gory special effects of eviscerated corpses, and heads being spectacularly blown off, Savini-style. The setting is a 19th Century…