If you walk down the DVD aisle of your local supermarket, it’ll become unavoidably apparent how weak the modern British Horror scene is. Gone are the stalwarts of Amicus and Hammer, and in their place is an ocean of low-budget identikit slashers/demon in the woods films. Surprise it is then […]
Reviews
Synchronic (2019) Some of Benson & Moorhead’s best work (Review)
Since they announced their arrival with a bang in 2012 with Resolution, Aaron Moorhead and Justin Benson have been two of the more captivating talents on the independent genre circuit. They followed that up with Spring and Resolution quasi-sequel, The Endless. In 2021 (debuting in America in 2019), the director […]
Tomorrow I’ll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea(1977) A fantastic, vicious attack on the modern age of serious science fiction (Review)
Opening with a blend of orchestral beauty and vague pangs of Kool & The Gang, Tomorrow I’ll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea, from director Jindřich Polák, shows off its frivolous, light-hearted antics immediately. Pairing this high quality, era-defining funk with reversed and repetitive footage of soulless vermin Adolf Hitler, the […]
12 Hour Shift (2020) Another Bettis Star Turn (Review)
Frightfest Presents returns in 2021 to release a smaller title that played a previous Festival, this time it’s the turn of actor/sophomore director, Brea Grant and her Crime Thriller/Comedy Horror, 12 Hour Shift. Grant made her name as an actor who works within the American indie horror scene, a highlight, […]
Rolling Thunder Revue (2019) One for the Martin Scorsese & Bob Dylan completists (Review)
A Rainy Day in New York (2019): and a grim day for Woody Allen fans (Review)
Inner Sanctum Mysteries (1943/45) Campy 1940s Murder Melodrama’s (Review)
Podcasting just does not get the credit it deserves, it removed the barriers to provide a platform for the everyman to broadcast around the globe. Let’s just ignore the fact the industry has been diminished by overexposure and broadcasting giants like the BBC getting involved making it very difficult for […]
The Tin Drum (1979) He Bangs the Drum (Review)
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970) Authoritarian Italian Gonzo Satire with a musical score from the Heavens (Review)
The Don is Dead (1973) Donsploitation! (Review)
TV. It’s all the same isn’t it? Switch on the gogglebox at any point and you’re basically confronted with the same show in various guises. Singing contests, dancing contests, afternoon quizzes. They’re all the same. It’s like there’s only three original shows out there and everything else that fills up […]