Directed by Dasha Nekrasova, The Scary of Sixty-First is a film that depicts what happens when two women move into an apartment rumoured to have been used by Jeffree Epstein and his sex trafficking ring. After brushing off a dodgy and suspicious realty agent, Noelle and Addie move into their […]
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Pennywise: The Story of IT (2021) Leaves no Drain Cover Unturned (VOD review)
Deep diving into the iconic 1990 mini-series IT, which was adapted from the 1986 Stephen King novel, Pennywise: The Story of It explores every inch and corner of the series that spawned a worldwide fear of clowns, as well as beginning from the conception of the series, behind the scenes […]
FrightFest 2022: The Leech (Festival Review)
A well-meaning Catholic priest, desperate to act out the pinnacle of good samaritan cheer and Christmas charity, inadvertently allows a drifter and his girlfriend to take refuge in his deceased mother’s house for the holidays. Father David soon realises, that taking in strangers may not have been his best plan, […]
Vampyr (1932) Pivotal Player in Vampire Horror History (Review)
Vampyr has been retrospectively hailed as a pinnacle moment in horror cinema history and with Eureka Entertainment’s new 2K release celebrating the film’s 90th anniversary, it is easy to see why. Vampyr, released in the same year as Universal’s Dracula, was Danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer’s first sound film. After […]
Deadly Games (1982) A slasher that forgets to be a slasher (Review)
Riding the wave of the slasher boom in the early 1980s, Deadly Games directed by Scott Mansfield is a lowkey game of cat and mouse between a sadistic killer with a penchant for board games and the women of the local town. Journalist Keegan (Jo Ann Harris) returns home after the […]
A Banquet (2021) Domestic Body Horror and Expert Sound Design (Cinema/VOD Review)
When teenager, Betsey (Jessica Alexandra), experiences strange phenomena at a party on the night of a blood moon, her widowed mother (played by Sienna Guillroy), must come to terms with her own history of trauma and decide where her boundaries of beliefs lie in order to help her daughter. It […]
The Incarnation (2022) More Interiors, Less Demonology (VOD Review)
The Incarnation is the directorial debut by Isaac Walsh, starring Taye Diggs (Empire, Chicago) and Jessica Uberuaga (Take Back, Vigilante Diaries) as a married couple desperately seeking success and new beginnings in Los Angeles. With a business venture rapidly going south, the couple moves into a lush property that seems […]
Caveat (2020) The latest effort in Irish Horror’s killer run of form (Blu-ray Review)
When drifter and amnesiac Isaac (Jonathan French) accepts a job from dodgy cockney client Moe (Ben Caplan), he soon discovers he is in for so much more than he bargained for. The job he is offered consists of “babysitting” Moe’s psychologically troubled niece, Olga, played by Leila Sykes. Olga resides […]
The Devil’s Men (1976) For those with a penchant for campy occultist enjoyable fluff (Review)
The Devil’s Men, also known in the US as Land of the Minotaur, is a Greek horror film directed by Kostas Karagiannis and written by Arthur Rowe. Starring two of horror’s most infamous actors, it sees Donald Pleasance (Halloween), as Irish priest Father Roche, face off against the sinister Baron […]
Don’t Go In The House (1980) Schlocky psychological video nasty? (Blu-Ray Review)
Released in 1980, Don’t Go In The House, directed by Joseph Ellison, went on to define the video nasty era of the slasher genre. The darker and more bleak of the slasher nasties, compared to the fellow 1980 release of Friday The 13th, this psychological horror was met with controversy […]