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 […]
Movies & Documentaries
Classic Film Kid – Down by Law (1986)
Hi guys, it’s the Classic Film Kid back again! Today we’ll be covering a recent re-release from Criterion, that of the 1986 Jim Jarmusch film Down By Law, starring Tom Waits as Zack and John Lurie as Jack, two men who are thrown in prison for crimes they didn’t commit, […]
UPDATED Glasgow FrightFest 2022 Programme
Following certain world events, FrightFest has changed its line-up slightly. Here is the revised line-up, offering even more ghoulish delights! THURS 10 MARCH – GFT Screen 1 21:00 NIGHT’S END (UK Premiere) Director: Jennifer Reeder. Cast: Geno Walker, Kate Arrington, Felonious Munk, Michael Shannon. USA 2022, 81 mins, 18. WORLD PREMIERE FrightFest favourite […]
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 […]
Signature Brings the Horror to Glasgow Film Festival!
Dark and intense Scottish thriller A Banquet plays on 5/6th March at the GFT for the Glasgow Film Festival, before going to cinemas and digital platforms on 11th March. Review coming soon Cert 15, 97mins Synopsis: A Banquet is an unsettling, thought-provoking and hyper-tense psychological thriller from director Ruth Paxton. The film stars Sienna Guillory (Resident Evil franchise, Luther), Jessica […]
Bartleby (1970): literature’s greatest enigma gets a fine, clever modernisation (Review)
Herman Melville is most famous for writing one of the American novel’s greatest epics in Moby-Dick, but his second most fascinating work couldn’t be more different in terms of scale. A modest, compact short story about a Wall Street clerk who sends his office into turmoil by politely refusing all […]
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 […]
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 Trap (1962) Avante Garde sounds and visions in this slyly clever satire (Review)
Another Czech film from the 1960s gets dusted down and given the usual exemplary treatment from the Second Run label this week and anyone in the know or familiar with some of my previous reviews will expect the usual discussion about how the film has a subversive message regarding the […]