The world’s oldest 9-year-old is back! Director William Brent Bell and writer David Coggeshall resurrect old ideas in a new way in this highly entertaining prequel that sheds light on the miniature maniac’s backstory in Orphan First Kill. The film opens at the grotty Saarne Institute, where patient Leena Klammer […]
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The Last Thing Mary Saw (2021) Teenage Kicks Get Puritanical (DVD Review)
Teenage kicks get puritanical in this slow-burn American gothic tale. The titular Mary (Stefanie Scott) stands on trial, blindfolded with blood running down her face, as she describes to a curious judge the last thing, or rather things, that she saw that landed her in the dock. Her tale introduces […]
Demonia (1990) One for the true Lucio Fulci completionist (Review)
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 […]
Girls Nite Out (1982) Less Psycho Killer, More Psycho Filler (Review)
The late ’70s brought us a slew of teen slashers along with some of horror’s most iconic knife-wielding psychos – but by the time we get to this 1982 offering, it’s “less psycho killer, more psycho filler”. ‘Girls Nite Out’ (it hurts to spell ‘night’ like that) has now been […]
You Are Not My Mother (2022) Folk Horror Terror in Working Class Ireland (VOD Review)
Irish eyes are certainly not smiling in this tale of domestic horror as ancient Irish folklore creeps its way into the twenty-first century. You are not My Mother’s first time director & writer Kate Dolan delivers a fantastically creepy story, aided by wonderfully strong leading women and a subtlety rarely […]
Voices (1973) Proto The Others, Pre-Leading Female Characters in Horror (Review)
This spooky seventies throwback thriller treads a familiar path of horror tropes, acting as a precursor to some of today’s horror hits. Exiled to obscurity for the last fifty years, will this fresh restoration give Voices a new lease of life, or are they best left unheard? Married (both in […]
Dick Johnson is Dead (2020) sad yet uplifting doc about preparing for death (Review)
It’s impressive just how ‘up for it’ the titular Dick Johnson is for the various whims of his daughter, award-winning documentary maker Kirsten Johnson. Wide-eyed and smiling, 88-year-old Dick is placed into various fictitious mortal, and bloody situations throughout the movie staged in loving detail by his daughter, including getting […]
Doctor Who: Eve of the Daleks (2021)(Review)
CONTAINS SPOILERS Since Doctor Who crashed back on our Christmas TV schedules in 2005 with tenth Doctor David Tennent’s maiden voyage in The Christmas Invasion, the festive tradition of Christmas Who’s sat nicely alongside our turkey and Quality Street on the 25th December. That was until Chris Chibnall took over […]
Doctor Who Flux – the Vanquishers (Episode 6)(Review)
CONTAINS SPOILERS Mr Chibnall’s opus culminates as the Flux’s various plots end in a flurry of recycled ideas and unanswered questions. In an extra-long finale, did the Doctor uncover her past, or open a can of worms? Disparate plots are a running theme of this series, and the finale is […]
Doctor Who Flux – Survivors of the Flux (Episode 5)(Review)
Doctor Who Season 13: Flux – Survivors of the Flux CONTAINS SPOILERS Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice stamping our mark on a 58-year-old English science fiction show. But finally, there’s light at the end of the Flux tunnel as this episode manages where others […]