Directed by Emily Hagins, Sorry About The Demon is a horror comedy that follows slacker Will as he navigates his recent breakup all the while dealing with his brand new roommates from hell. Will, played by Jon Michael Simpson, is a hopeless deadbeat who is completely devoid of any real […]
Reviews
Rebel (2022) A Devastating Descent Into The Poisonous Spiral Of War And Propaganda (Review)
War is an inevitability brought on in a world ruled by rivalry. The constant push for human beings to be pulled apart and divided against each other in an arbitrary battle of differences consistently reaches a boiling point that can only end in violence. Whether it’s religion, cultural differences or […]
Clerks III (2022) An emotional gut-punch, and the end of an era (Review)
Beware spoilers! Clerks III is the third and final instalment of the Clerks saga, written and directed by Kevin Smith. We return to the Quick Stop, to Randal, Dante, Jay and Silent Bob all still living their New Jersey dream, or nightmare depending on your perspective. A massive heart attack […]
The Executioner Collection (1974) Sonny Chiba’s Lucky Stars (Review)
Japanese cinema carries with it a certain gravitas in the minds of many. It evokes images of great chivalry (Seven Samurai), dreams and heartbreak (Ikiru), honour and justice (Hara-Kiri) and the importance of family (Tokyo Story). Names such as Akira Kurosawa, Kenji Mizoguchi and Yasujirō Ozu loom large over its […]
Wolf Manor (2023) A gleeful ode to the Werewolves that came before (Review)
Dominic Brunt is known to most in the UK as the vet about town, Paddy, from the long-established soap opera Emmerdale. He has long been moonlighting as a director of horror and exploitation movies, debuting with 2013’s Before Dawn, in 2022 he made his fourth feature, Wolf Manor. I would […]
The Dunwich Horror (1970) Lovecraft via 1960s New Age Hippie Psychadelia (Review)
Adapting the work of the world-famous horror author H.P. Lovecraft for the screen is a task which still seems to challenge filmmakers to this day. His tales of unreliable narrators coming face-to-tentacled-face with unimaginable eldritch horrors with nigh-unpronounceable names have struggled to make the transition from page to celluloid for […]
Nightmare at Noon (1988) Questionable character, dated, yet an amazing action spectacle (Review)
Nightmare at Noon is an all-guns-blazing action-horror spectacle that is so explosive, so gung-ho, and so deeply, proudly American that it could only have been made by a Greek man. Co-written and directed by genre veteran Nico Mastorakis, a man whose decades-spanning career has covered everything from action to slasher […]
Big Time Gambling Boss (1968) An Essential for anyone with a penchant for Yakuza Cinema (Review)
Big Time Gambling Boss is the fourth entry in the Bakuchi-uchi series (a series that ran for ten films in total between 1967 to 1972 and was released by Toei studios). Starring Koji Tsurata (Sympathy for the Underdog) as a suave and chivalrous gambling Yakuza general, he has everything we’ve […]
The Working Class Goes to Heaven (1971): Work is Hell (Review)
A new year brings a new Blu-ray distributor in the shape of Radiance Films whose first slate of releases includes The Working Class Goes to Heaven, Elio Petri’s brilliant 1971 polemic on totalitarian capitalism and the post-war Italian ‘Economic Miracle’, released January 2nd. The film reunites Petri with Gian Maria […]
Scare Package II: Rad Chad’s Revenge (2022): The Continuation of an Unexpected Parody Horror Franchise (Review)
Anthology horror films have a surprisingly long legacy, with the first one, Unheimliche Geschichten, being traced back to 1919. Arguably, Dead of Night from 1945 popularised the genre before the boom in the 60s and 70s, the latter of which had its own Dead of Night that went direct to […]