Director Kiyoshi Kurosawa has explored a variety of genres in a career spanning over forty years, and this release of his fourth feature, The Guard from Underground, demonstrates that his confidence in genre-hopping came early on. The film begins as a work-based drama, but gradually shifts into slasher horror as […]
Movies & Documentaries
The Wicker Man (1973): Folk horror’s towering icon catches ablaze in new 4K restoration (Review)
It towers over the horizon, casting shadow over everything below. It inspires dread, reverence and devotion, cutting an impressive figure of iconic proportions. It catches alight quickly and blazes with a terrible truth, and it becomes impossible to look away from its purifying, eye-opening vision. And we’re not just talking […]
The Psycho Collection (1983-1990) Rehabilitating the Most Unlikely of Horror Franchises (Review)
On June 16th 1960 New York cinemagoers saw Janet Leigh step into a shower, and the world was forever changed. Even 63 years later, Alfred Hitchcock’s classic suspense stunner Psycho (1960), is widely regarded to be one of the greatest films of all time – a statement which this reviewer […]
The Angry Black Girl And Her Monster (2023) A Real Frankenstein for the 21st Century (Review)
Fans of Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein; or the Modern Prometheus have been clambering for a cinematic adaptation that isn’t another Victorian era verbatim remake. Bringing the OG gothic science-fiction horror firmly into the 21st century, interwoven with modern anxieties over race relations is The Angry Black Girl And Her Monster. […]
She Shoots Straight (1990) There’s more to Joyce Godenzi than being Mrs. Sammo (Review)
She Shoots Straight and she kicks ass, but there is a lot more to Joyce Godenzi than being Mrs Sammo Hung. Hollywood could have learned a lesson or two from Hong Kong cinema in the late 80s and early 90s, and whilst it would slowly catch on towards the end […]
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 […]
Interrogation (1982): merciless, Kafkaesque, a two-hour pressure cooker (Blu-Ray Review)
There aren’t many home media releases where a highlight of the additional features is the transcript of a government meeting. But then, there aren’t many films with a history like Ryszard Bugajski’s Interrogation, released on Blu-Ray by Second Run. Second Run have previously released this film on DVD, but that […]
Valley Girl (1983) – A cult romance fronted by an engaging pair [Blu-Ray Review]
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To celebrate its 40th anniversary, Eureka Entertainment has put out a Limited Edition box set of Valley Girl, which also serves as the film’s home video debut in the UK. While this independently produced film was the breakthrough work for director Martha Coolidge, it was also notably the first major […]
Scream and Scream Again (1970) The Most Peculiar Portmanteau from Amicus (Review)
This week, the excellent Radiance Films continues its commitment to the classic and the cult by raiding the crypt of Amicus to deliver unto us one of the strangest portmanteau horrors Hammer’s biggest rival ever produced – 1970’s Scream and Scream Again. The title may sound like the catchphrase of […]
Ringu (1998) Bone-Chilling Horror Backed Up With Intricate, Genius Stoytelling (Review)
My only previous experience with reviewing Japanese live-action cinema is two films released by Arrow Video in 2021: The Invisible Man Appears and The Human Fly. I remember my main issue with them was their attempt to capitalise on a lot of American successes with sci-fi and horror, without stamping […]