Like any industry film festival, Slamdance has its different strands – Graham talked about the experimental shorts, joining that there are animated shorts, and narrative shorts as well as the more traditional documentary and narrative feature sections that are also sub-divided. Fields that have some impressive alumni, with the festival […]
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The Complex Forms (Slamdance Film Festival 2024)(Review)
Slamdance is a film festival positioned around micro budget productions, giving writers and directors an early step in their career – a step with considerable lineage given its on the doorstep of its third decade. That qualifier, micro-budget, gives a certain impression of what sort of narrative films the festival […]
Frankie Avalon & The Haunted House of Horror – Pop Screen 106
Oh god, Graham’s shining the spooky light under his face again – sounds like time for a Halloween special. And it is, with Mark Cunliffe of We Are Cult joining the show once again to talk about The Haunted House of Horror, a 1960s British horror movie with an all-bases-covered […]
Night of the Hunted (2023) – Sniper Terror Butts Heads with Political Bluntness (Review)
Shudder is the premium horror streaming service – for now – and you’d expect their acquisitions and original movies to reflect that status. If a Shudder Original isn’t a horror movie, it will at least have some tangential connection. Not to be confused with the Jean Rollin movie of the […]
The Dead Mother (1993) Dark Spanish Thriller with a Super Daring Twist (Review)
Spanish language genre cinema might be incredible as far as the UK is concerned, but we don’t know as so little makes it over to these shores. Of the few names that have appeared on our radars, the most well-known are directors like Guillermo Del Toro and Álex de la […]
Time Addicts (2023) The Foul-Mouthed Sleeper Comedy of 2023? (Review)
Time Addicts is one of the most singular concoctions that I’ve seen in some time. It tells a tale of time travelling, drug addiction, and eventually, intergenerational neglect and trauma, and all within the guise of an australian stoner comedy in possession of the godly gift of creative (bad) language. […]
Final Summer (2023): A Summer Camp Slasher Without A Deep Cut (Review)
Time is a great equaliser, and if you rewind to the mid-to-late 1980s then movies like Final Summer would’ve been ten-a-penny. It’s fair to say that this could result in fatigue, but there was an audience for movies like John Isberg’s feature directorial debut (he’s also done plenty of work […]
Another Day to Live Through (2023) Majestic Finland, Less Majestic as a Psychological Thriller (Review)
In the last few years, horror and thriller movies have been slipping out of corners of the world not usually associated with darker storytelling standards – Lithuania, Malaysia and beyond. Peter Simmons has worked in short films as an actor, director, writer and producer for a number of years, and […]
My Mother’s Eyes (Frightfest 2023)(Review)
For an entire generation of horror fans, the movies that came out of Japan around the turn of the millennium were crucial stopovers in our journey of cinematic discovery. They fell under the collective-yet-reductive umbrella of “J-Horror”, which had slowly burned out by the mid-’00s, but in 2023 the smouldering […]
Johnny Z (2023) Zombie-Actioner extending way beyond its grasp (Review)
Z ombies are one of horror’s great contradictions. The shuffling undead is immediately synonymous with the most macabre of genres, yet at the same time, that community is sick to life and back of the classic monster. The question that any zombie movie has to tackle is how to make […]