Giallo and Italian Horror legend Lucio Fulci marked a return to cinema in this early 90’s nunsploitation flick – but is its reputation as Fulci’s weakest film deserved or has the last 30 years been kind to the Italian maestro’s forgotten work? We open in fifteenth-century Italy, as a group […]
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Enter the Void (2009): a city symphony in 21st-century neon (Review)
Gaspar Noé’s new film Vortex, currently on release in UK cinemas, is shocking audiences in perhaps the only way Noé can shock people at this juncture: by removing his usual graphic violence and unsimulated sex in favour of a sensitive exploration of dementia and death. There is another film called […]
Lux Aeterna (2019): Gaspar Noé’s Stress-Inducing Meditation On Filmmaking
Wild Things (1998) 90s Hollywood or Hollyoaks Later? (Review)
Girls Nite Out (1982) Less Psycho Killer, More Psycho Filler (Review)
Twisting the Knife: Nightcap (2000) & The Flower of Evil (2003)(Review)
Twisting the Knife: The Swindle (1997) and The Colour of Lies (1999)(Review)
The Big Racket (1976) & Heroin Busters (1977): two films by Enzo G Castellari (Review)
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (4K)(1994) De Niro & the Ego Monster (Blu-ray Review)
Henry Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986) A deeply unnerving character study (Review)
Disturbing films were in abundance throughout the late 70s and early 80s. With films such as Driller Killer, Cannibal Holocaust, The Last House on the Left and many more being branded “Video Nasties” and essentially blacklisted by the BBFC. Most of the shocking value of these films comes from grotesque […]