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 […]
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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 […]
Doctor Who Flux – The Village of the Angels (Episode 4)(Review)
“The Village of the Angels”. Fan favourites the Weeping Angels return with a bang in this week’s episode and despite some inconsistencies, it’s an episode peppered with nostalgic scares and menace. CONTAINS SPOILERS This series is like a greatest hit’s tour of Doctor Who villains, a bumpy ghost train, with […]
Doctor Who Flux – Once Upon Time (Episode 3)(Review)
“Once Upon Time”. We’re a long way down the time vortex, and there is no place like home. Doctor Who goes into overdrive in a badly structured meander into madness. CONTAINS SPOILERS To start with, an apology for wrongly titling this week’s episode in last week’s review. Perhaps too entrenched […]
Doctor Who Flux – War of the Sontarans (Episode 2)(Review)
“War of the Sontarans”. Better, but still bonkers. It’s episode 2 of the latest Doctor Who series and I think my brain may be starting to adjust to the manic pacing and nonsensical scripting – I actually watched this episode without hanging out the washing (that’s what happens when you […]