Sally, her brother Franklin, and three of their friends are sidetracked when travelling to a grandparent’s house. Their impromptu detour leads them into the clutches of the Sawyer family, and the deranged killer known as Leatherface. There has been so much written about The Texas Chainsaw Massacre over the years […]
Andy Connor
Andy is the host of the Road To Knowhere podcast, which focuses mainly on comic book, scifi and horror movies. He also hosts, along with Larry Reid, the director discussion section of the pod, Direct To Knowhere
The Outwaters (2022) A Brave New Nightmarish Hellscape for Found Footage (Review)
Four friends take a trip to the Mojave desert to film a music video, with the plan to camp out for a few days. What they find is a terrifying cosmic descent into fear, madness and murder When first approaching The Outwaters, as a fan of the found footage subgenre, […]
The Harbinger (2022) The Unpredictability of Pandemic Terror tapped to create the stuff of Nightmares (Review)
In the middle of a viral outbreak, Monique (Gabby Beans) makes the decision to leave her family bubble and travel to care for her friend Mavis (Emily Davis), who has been experiencing what appears to be a mental break, coupled with sleepwalking. This decision leads Monique on a collision course […]
Wolf Manor (2023) A gleeful ode to the Werewolves that came before (Review)
Dominic Brunt is known to most in the UK as the vet about town, Paddy, from the long-established soap opera Emmerdale. He has long been moonlighting as a director of horror and exploitation movies, debuting with 2013’s Before Dawn, in 2022 he made his fourth feature, Wolf Manor. I would […]
A Wounded Fawn (2022) A Bold, Inventive One-of-a-Kind Horror (VOD review)
Invited on a second date with the handsome Bruce (Josh Ruben) to his secluded cabin, Meredith (Sarah Lind) is ready for a weekend she won’t forget. Bruce, however, is fuelled by a dark need, and Meredith will have to fight for her survival. Travis Stevens, director of the previous Shudder […]
He’s Watching (2022)Lockdown Found Footage stumbles across the finish-line (VOD Review)
While their parents recover in hospital from a mystery illness, siblings, Iris and Lucas, must confront a series of strange happenings in their home. Is it a sense of paranoia between the two, or are they sharing the house with something more sinister? Following the release of Shudder exclusive Host […]
Smile (2022) Hyped Horror is yet another to overuse Easy Jump Scares (Cinema Review)
Years after a family tragedy, Dr Rose Cotter (Sosie Bacon) witnesses the gruesome death of a patient with a sinister smile. Plagued by terrifying visions, she turns to her ex and police officer Joel (Kyle Gallner) for help, hoping to change her fate before it is too late. After the […]
Rave Encounters: Blade II, 20 years later
Four years before Sam Raimi took Peter Parker for a swing through New York, and a full decade before Tony Stark found his heart in a cave in the desert, there was Blade. Released in 1998 to a mixed bag in terms of critical reception, the Wesley Snipes-fronted Blade went […]