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Your Daily Dracula – Nishi Trishna (1989)
Your Daily Dracula – Nishi Trishna (1989) Apparently the first Bengali vampire movie, this cobbles together bits and pieces from western genre films – mostly from Hammer’s Dracula series – and fits...
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Film review – In a Violent Nature
My Sight & Sound review of In a Violent Nature is online.
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Fantasia review – Dark Match
Dark Match has screened at the Fantasia festival; it’s also programmed at FrightFest Writer-director Lowell Dean made the fun, scurrilous Wolfcop movies. This is equally loopy in its premise – 1980s...
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Film review – Deadpool & Wolverine
My Sight & Sound review of Deadpool & Wolverine is online.
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Film review – Caligula The Ultimate Cut
My Empire review of Caligula The Ultimate Cut is online.
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Your Daily Dracula – Mike Burke as Vladimir Dracula III, Nosferatu’s Crush...
Your Daily Dracula – Mike Burke as Vladimir Dracula III, Nosferatu’s Crush (2004) A home-made horror comedy from Connecticut, written by, starring, directed by, edited by and produced by Mike Burke,...
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Film review – You’re Next
You’re Next Adam Wingard and Simon Barret’s You’re Next is available on Limited Edition Dual UHD/Blu-ray Box set on 19 August 2024 courtesy of Second Sight Films. It will also be available in Standard...
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FrightFest review – The Lonely Man With The Ghost Machine
Screenshot The Lonely Man With The Ghost Machine Written, produced, edited and directed by Graham Skipper – who also stars and makes up a song about an oak tree – this is a one-man after-the-apocalypse...
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FrightFest review – Drive Back
Drive Back Given that this is one of those films in which folks on a lonesome road keep driving up to the same spot – where a disturbingly familiar old bumper blocks the path – while trying to escape a...
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FrightFest review – Ghost Game
Ghost Game Jill Gevargizian’s follow-up to The Stylist opens in found footage style – as masked pranksters Laura (Kia Dorsey and Adrian (Sam Lukowski) take a creepy hobby too far … as players of the...
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FrightFest review – The Bunker (2024)
The Bunker (2024) Those city-sized alien motherships are back, hovering in threatening fashion over major population centres on Earth. Dr Michelle Riley (Chelsea Edmundson), a microbiologist, is...
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FrightFest review – Things Will Be Different
Things Will Be Different There have been a lot of timewarp/loop/limbo movies lately – Drive Back is also at FrightFest, typifying the cycle – so the promise of the title, significantly only onscreen...
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Frightfest review – The Freaks of Fancy
The Freaks of Fancy1928. Four nearly-qualified medical students – Gloria (Rachel Brownstein), Cely-An (Holly Lovelady), Geoffrey (Adam Carruthers) and Michael (Matthew Jackman) – are invited by the...
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FrightFest review – Children of the Wicker Man
Children of the Wicker Man If any film has been squeezed dry by previous making-ofs, retrospectives, reissues, disc extras and general merch, it’s the blessed Wicker Man. Or Anthony Shaffer’s The...
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FrightFest review – The Last Podcast
The Last Podcast There have been a lot of horror films in the last few years featuring podcasters, influencers, youtubers, vloggers, etc – pretty much 98% of them feature wholly obnoxious online folk...
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FrightFest review – Mutilator 2
Mutilator 2 In recent years, more or less every 1980s indie slasher movie – and there are what is technically known as a shedload of them – has been reissued in a lavish BluRay edition with multiple...
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FrightFest review – Cursed in Baja
Cursed in Baja A grungy neo-noir directed by, written by and starring gruff Jeff Daniel Phillips – co-starring his impressive Elliott Gould on crack moustache. Pirelli (Phillips), a disgraced...
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