Year: 2015 Director: Jason Lei Howden Cast: Milo Cawthorne, James Blake, Kimberley Crossman, Stephen Ure Themes: Heavy Metal, Demons, Splatstick, Corpse Paint, Chainsaws, Studs and Leather, \m/ Every heavy metal horror needs to start with an outsider, and Deathgasm’s central… Read More ›
Year: 2014 Director: Kevin Smith Cast: Michael Parks, Justin Long, Haley Joel Osment, Génesis Rodríguez Themes: Body Horror, Weird, Surreal, Horror/Comedy Kevin Smith takes body horror into The Human Centipede territory- infusing it with a little of The Beatles Magical… Read More ›
Year: 2014 Director: Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer Cast: Alex Essoe, Amanda Fuller, Noah Segan, Fabianne Therese Themes: Fame, Cults, Pacts, Ambition, Hollywood “Hollywood is a place where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents… Read More ›
Year: 2014 Director: Ana Lily Amipour Cast: Sheila Vand, Arash Marandi, Marshall Manesh, Mozhan Marnò Themes: Vampire, Pop culture cool, Belonging, Love Story All it took were three words to reel me in “Iranian Vampire Western”- ok, and a deliciously… Read More ›
Year: 2014 Director: Alexander Fennert Cast: Nikol Brown, Horst Cert, Karl Dexter, Goldie, Mark Hoffman Themes: Perversion Initially named after a part of the brain which is thought to be the centre of emotion, memory and the nervous system (Hippocampus)… Read More ›
Year: 1979 Director: Juan Piquer Simón Cast: Cameron Mitchell, Antonio Cantafora (as Michael Coby), Diana Polakov Themes: Science Fiction, Superhero, Italian rip offs, Trash Cinema Story Is it a bird, is it a plane? No, it’s perhaps one of the… Read More ›
Year: 2014 US Release: Available DVD, VOD, Blu-Ray UK Release: Available DVD, VOD; Blu-Ray unavailable Director: Zach Lipovsky Cast: Stephanie Bennett, Andrew Dunbar, Brendan Fletcher, Dylan Postl, Melissa Roxburgh Horror fans love a good franchise. The genre’s most recognisable, and… Read More ›
Year: 2012 Alternate titles: Lesson of the Evil, Aku no Kyōten, 悪の教典, Director: Takashi Miike Cast: Hideaki Ito, Takayuki Yamada, Mitsuru Fukikoshi, Takehiro Hira, Shota Sometani Themes: Bloodshed, Murder, Sociopaths, Controversial, Violence, Gore, Black Humour You have to take your… Read More ›
Year: 2013 Director: Axelle Carolyn Cast: Anna Walton, Tom Wisdom, Tanya Myers, Nick Brimble Themes: Ghost and hauntings, Suicide, Grief, Loss, Gothic Romance In a genre dominated by mainstream cattle prod cinema, it is always a nice surprise to find… Read More ›
Release Date: August 11th 2014 Year: 2014 Director: Loren Johnson Cast: Andrea Burdett, John McPherson, Luke Ledger, Pia Prendiville Themes: Australian, ghost story, supernatural, teens, boot camp, premonitions A number of TV shows have been created in the past decade… Read More ›
Year: 2014 Director: Shaub Miah Cast: Lucinda Rhodes-Flaherty, Josh Myers, Wayne Gordon, Sagar Radia, Jema ‘Princess Levi’ Gilsenan Themes: Zombie, Action, Comedy Kicking off with the familiar ‘our feature presentation’ introduction screen that has graced many past grindhouse and B… Read More ›
Release Date: Sept 15th 2014 Year: 2014 Director: Owen Tooth Cast: Roxanne Pallett, Jason Mewes, Jessica-Jane Clement/Stafford, Eddie Webber Themes: horror, comedy, drama, zombie survival, tower block, British The sub-genre of ‘tower block peril’ movies has grown in recent years… Read More ›
aka The Philosophers Year: 2014 Director: John Huddles Cast: James D’Arcy, Rhys Wakefield, Sophie Lowe, Daryl Sabara, Bonnie Wright Themes: end of the world, atomic war, morals, survival, philosophy If the world was going to end due to an atomic… Read More ›
Year: 2014 Director: Edward Boase Cast: Jemma Dallender, Joshua Dickinson, Nnate Fellows Themes: found footage, suspense, urban legend, news story, haunted, possession Horror and ‘reality’ are often paired together in the world of film. Many a blockbuster or B-movie has… Read More ›
Year: 2011 Director: Mike Flanagan US Release: Available DVD, VOD; Blu-Ray unconfirmed UK Release: Available DVD, VOD; Blu-Ray 7th July 2014 Cast: Courtney Bell, Morgan Peter Brown, James Flanagan, Doug Jones, Dave Levine, Katie Parker Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1, 1080p, 23.98fps… Read More ›
Year: 2013 US Release: 15th July 2014; available VOD UK Release: 14th July 2014; 7th July 2014 VOD Director: Jonathan Glazer Cast: Paul Brannigan, Scott Dymond, Krystof Hadek, Scarlett Johansson, Michael Moreland, Adam Pearson, Jeremy McWilliams Themes: alien, beauty, deformity,… Read More ›
Year: 2013 US Cinema Release: 13th June 2014 (limited run); available VOD UK Cinema Release: 12th September 2014; VOD unannounced Director: Lucky McKee & Chris Sivertson Cast: Brooke Butler, Amanda Grace Cooper, Reanin Johannink, Leigh Parker, Sianoa Smit-McPhee, Caitlin Stasey,… Read More ›
Year: 2013 Director: Luciano Onetti Cast: Luciano Onetti, Daiana Garcia, Silvia Duhalde Themes: Giallo, Thriller, Italian Horror The debut film of Argentinean director Luciano Onetti, Sonno Profondo represents not just a labour of love- as Onetti also writes, acts, films… Read More ›
Horror as a genre, by its very nature, is one of extremes and excesses. Endemic violence, gratuitous nudity, and blanket coverage of the darkest recesses of the human soul are all well catered for and widely available. It is… Read More ›
There are precious few landmark filmmakers still working in horror. Wes Craven, a major force behind the explosion of the slasher during the Eighties and its renaissance during the Nineties, is all but retired these days; William Friedkin is hardly… Read More ›
Horror is a genre of tribute. In a very real sense, the visceral thrills and chills on offer speak to the darkest heart of the human condition, our fascination with the macabre and perverse; it is the sensation of fear… Read More ›
To the rest of the world, Australia has hardly been a hotbed of great cinema over the years. Due to geographical limitations many cinematic triumphs did not make the leap out of the country and get the opportunity to garner… Read More ›
In the UK, by far the biggest event in the horror calendar is the ‘Film4 Frightfest’ held annually over the August Bank Holiday weekend. Each year the great and the good assemble for a range of horror-themed events as well… Read More ›
What is horror? As covered in many of my reviews, it is such a broad topic open to an enormous expanse of diverse interpretations. Horror movies cater to so many different tastes too; from bloody gorefests, through creepy, atmospheric ghost… Read More ›
Year: 2013. US Cinema release 14/04/14, UK Cinema release 13/6/14. Director: Mike Flanagan. Cast: Karen Gillan, Brenton Thwaites, Katee Sackhoff, Rory Cochrane, Annalise Basso, Garrett Ryan. Themes: Possession, hauntings, family murder, domestic violence, supernatural. Siblings Kaylie and Tim Russell hold… Read More ›
