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 ›
Ghost and hauntings
James Simpson Reviews The Mirror (2014).
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 ›
Dr. Catsu Reviews Absentia 2011 (UK Blu-ray).
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 ›
Dr. Catsu Reviews House of Good and Evil (2014)
The haunted house sub-genre has become progressively more packed in recent years. It seems like there is at least one new entry most weeks, year round, and they vary wildly in quality. This is attributable to one key factor… Read More ›
Stiggy’s Film of the Day Hideo Nakata’s The Complex ( クロユリ団地 Kuroyuri danchi) (2013)
J-horror pioneer, Hideo Nakata, is a director who for me personally has a lot to live up to; given that he is one of the few horror directors who has actually managed to scare the living hell out of me… Read More ›
The Whip and The Body (La Frusta e il Corpo) (1963)
Plot. Kurt Menliff, the son of a Count, has been ostracised from his family after casting shame on the Menliff name. When he returns to the family home he learns his brother Christian has married his former lover Nevenka, but… Read More ›
Symptoms (1974) aka The Blood Virgin, Sintomas (Spanish) Review.
Plot. When a delicate Helen brings her writer girlfriend Anne West to her country mansion retreat to keep her company, as she recovers from an undisclosed illness, local tongues start wagging. Where is her usual companion Cora? How is Helen… Read More ›
House aka Hausu (1977) Review.
Plot . After Gorgeous gets her nose put out of joint by her Father’s new girlfriend she and her school friends (Melody, Sweet, Mac, Kung Fu, Prof, and Fanta) decide to travel to her Aunt’s house in the country for… Read More ›
House on Haunted Hill Review (1959). B-Horror Legend William Castle and Vincent Price team up to make this spooktastic effort…
Please do not confuse the film I am about to review with the godawful remake, for anyone put off by this total load of crapola I urge you to have a rethink and check out the William Castle original if… Read More ›
Les Diaboliques Review (1955). ‘The Greatest Film Hitchcock Never Made’…
Les Diaboliques by H G Clouzot has often been referred to as the ‘greatest film that Hitchcock never made’, which more fittingly should be ‘almost made’ had he not been pipped to the post by this French director for the… Read More ›
White (Melody of the curse) (Melody of Death) Review (2011)
This Korean ghost movie directed by twins Kim Gok and Kim Sun and co-written by the directors and Shin Kwang-Ho, offers up the same old curse of a murder victim formula rampant in modern day Asian Horror. That is not… Read More ›