Released to Blu-ray on Eureka’s Masters of Cinema last month, Early Universal Vol 1 is a boxset celebrating the legendary studio’s formative years with three beautifully restored silent features. Each film feels carefully chosen to represent the breadth and variety of features made during the silent era; the domestic comedy […]
Reviews
Death Screams (1982) and the essential innocence of early slashers (Review)
Johnny Guitar (1954) Oh, Vienna! (Review)
To the unconverted, Westerns are a predictable genre in which the same archetypal characters, settings and situations recur over and over again. To fans, Westerns are a fabulously varied genre in which the same archetypal characters, settings and situations can be combined in an infinite number of original variations. Think, […]
Snake Girl and the Silver-Haired Witch (1968) Scooby Doo for Adults! (Review)
Paranormal Activity (2007) all these years later, still the best of the bunch (Review)
A full 8 years after the found footage sleeper hit The Blair Witch Project made camcorder footage terrifying, in 2007 director Oren Peli released Paranormal Activity on a (somewhat) unsuspecting cinema audience. Spawning a string of sequels which arguably rivals the Blumhouse MCU of horror, does this Second Sight re-release […]
Gaia (2021) Challenging Ecological South African Body Horror (Review)
Duel to the Death (1983) One of the unsung action movies of the 1980s (Review)
Children of the Corn (1984 -1995) The also-ran horror franchise that keeps on motoring (Review)
Corruption (1968) Camp British Proto-Slasher with a surprisingly game Peter Cushing (Review)
Re-released by Indicator, 1968’s Corruption asks a bold question, unheard of during that era of British horror… “What if Peter Cushing did horrible murders in a 60’s style suit rather than a Victorian-era suit?” The plot of this Robert Hartford-Davis directed slasher is the kind of nonsense that you’d expect […]