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Creepshow Season 4 (2023)(Review)

David O Hare 27/10/2023

Ahhhh, the horror anthology series. From to Tales of the Unexpected and American Horror Stories to The Twilight Zone, they’re as ubiquitous now as the horror movies they imitate. Creepshow arguably predates most of them, citing it’s origins in the 1950s comic-books Tales From the Crypt and The Vault of […]

George A. Romero’s Martin (1977) Vampire horror through the hazy gaze of an Antisocial Creep (Review)

Megan Kenny 17/03/2023

Martin (1977) is the fifth film from George Romero, coming hot on the heels of The Crazies (1973). It follows the eponymous Martin, a troubled young man who believes he is an 84-year-old vampire. This belief is endorsed by many of his family members who call him Nosferatu and spend […]

The Amusement Park (1975): George A Romero’s lost film comes back from the dead (Blu-Ray Review)

Graham Williamson 14/10/2022

Of course, a man like George A Romero would leave us with one final shock. When he died in 2017, it seemed like his final film was Survival of the Dead, a middling 2009 entry into the zombie genre he redefined with his immortal 1968 debut Night of the Living […]

Clapboard Jungle (2020) Part Vlog Part Vital Tool for the aspiring filmmaker (Review)

Rob Simpson 16/04/2021

New Arrow Video documentary, Clapboard Jungle, is a curious creation. It’s a documentary about filmmaking that covers multiple strands almost simultaneously. It’s a personal diary of director Justin McConnell as he grapples with the existential angst of being an up and coming writer-director who is seeing their peers, whether talented […]

Dawn of the Dead (1978) A guiding light of the zombie genre (Review)

Ewan Gleadow 04/11/2020

I remember being underwhelmed by my first encounter with George A. Romero’s Dawn of the Dead. With a need to see if I was the problem, my ulterior motives for reviewing this re-release from Second Sight was that, hopefully, my confounded outlook on what I had deemed the weakest entrance […]

Halloween 2019 Special – Cinema Eclectica 228

Archaeon 30/10/2019

It’s our Halloween special, and the only horror film in cinemas involves a phone app that kills you. That’s as good a reason as any to do “The Last Black Man In San Francisco”, Joe Talbot’s warmly received debut. It is not, as you may think, a remake of I […]

Monkey Shines (1988) Lesser Romero Doesn’t Mean Bad Romero (Review)

Rob Simpson 18/10/2018

One of the issues I have always had with the 70s and 80s horror is George A. Romero. Not his movies as I love more of them than I don’t, more the way the industry dealt with him. First and foremost he was a satirist who wanted to tell stories […]

Redcon-1 (2018) the micro-budget zombie film with ants in its pants (Review)

Rob Simpson 28/09/2018

Here we go again, Redcon-1. A thousand different websites for a thousand different zombie movies all say the same thing, this is one monster who has been exhausted way past the breaking point. In other news, rain is wet. I mock but in the past twenty years, you could probably […]

Cinema Eclectica 146 – Ullo John Waters, Got a New Motor

Archaeon 19/02/2018

The first rule of Gothic literature is that everyone has dark secrets and no-one can be trusted – as Rob, Mick and Graham find out when the local cinemas nix their plans for “Phantom Thread” to be Film of the Week. Worry not though, as Daniel Day-Lewis’ Whitby vacation is […]

Cinema Eclectica 135 – A Tale of Two Hammers

Archaeon 05/11/2017

A chill fog rises in the air, an unearthly howl is heard across the moors, and Rob’s wi-fi packs up. Yes, it’s our Halloween special, and after a brief stopover in Hammer territory with Indicator’s reissue of “Maniac” (also known as “The Maniac”), we remember some of the horror icons […]

The Jester (2023) The killer clown genre pratfalls its way to a sorry end (Review)

I Monster (1971) A horror monster masterclass from Christopher Lee (Review)

Desire (1958)/All My Good Countrymen (1968); Two Films by Vojtěch Jasný (Review)

Silence and Cry (1968) a thought-provoking portrait of a unique director at a critical juncture in history (Review)

The Ninja Trilogy (1981-1984) High Camp of the 80s Ninja Craze (Review)

Zardoz (1974) Much more than James Bond in a Red Nappy (Review)

Pictures of the Old World (1972) Sorrowful, Funny and Bawdy portrait of a people (Review)

Mind-Set (2023) A Bittersweet Observation of Modern Love (Review)

Elvira Mistress of the Dark (1989) the highest of high camp comedy-horror (Review)

Creepy (2016) Menacing, and gives the bird to decades of police procedural (Review)

Wanda (1970) A Glimpse of the Real New Hollywood? (Review)

The Ginger Snaps Trilogy (2000-2004) Important piece of Disruptive Art, vital as Teen Horror icon (Review)

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