Review by Marc Patterson Nazis are a cultural anomaly. No one would for one second align themselves with their ideology, but when you slap that swastika onto a DVD or video game cover just stand back as you watch copies fly off the shelves. All you need is some supernatural element like zombies, or some [...]

Review by Marc Patterson Nude Nuns with Big Guns… Fuck, if there were ever a title that sells itself this would be it. Seriously, this flick ought to be critic proof. What else could you possibly need to know? Let me answer that answer directly: Plenty. Let’s start at the beginning, because just like Mary [...]

Review by Keri O’Shea When editor Ben asked if there were any takers to review a Bulgarian neo-noir entitled Zift, I’ll admit it – I jumped at the chance. My knowledge of Bulgaria is limited, but I find Eastern Europe fascinating and the cinema I have seen from that part of the world doubly so, [...]

Review by Annie Riordan Sometimes, stalking pays off. I offer my recent 4,000+ mile move from Northern California to remote Rhode Island as proof. The final resting place of H.P. Lovecraft, the father of cosmic horror, is now a mere 10 minute drive from my front door. But hey, stalking a dead guy is easy. [...]

Review by Ben Bussey Ambition; perhaps both the most vital, yet also most hazardous attribute a filmmaker can have. If you aim high and deliver, you will vindicate yourself and by all rights should be applauded for it. However, if you fall short of the mark you may well end up the subject of a [...]

Review by Stephanie Scaife Eureka Entertainment brings us the next instalment from their Masters of Cinema series in the form of the little known pseudo-documentary called Punishment Park, directed by cult British director Peter Watkins (The War Game, Culloden). After a poor critical response and with its tough, political subject matter ensuring distribution near impossible, [...]

Review by Marc Patterson The end of the world won’t come with a warning. There will be no alarms, no Twitter hash tags, or Facebook fan pages. If you’re extremely lucky you’ll get a quick glimpse of your doom only moments before everything vaporizes around you. Such is the case with opening frames of The [...]

by Annie Riordan It’s a shame that I’ve given up on dating, because I really am an awesome girlfriend. I love horror movies, sex and junk food and I’m really not into the whole jealousy thing. You want to go to a strip club with the boys tonight, honey? Fine, have fun. Oh, you went [...]

Review by Marc Patterson I don’t know how to put this, but since you’re all pretty used to reading my rantings by now, I should just come out and admit it without shame. I can’t say this is the first time I’ve seen a French rape/revenge flick that’s starred porn actresses. Remember that outing from [...]

Review by Marc Patterson I feel like I have a lot of confessions lately. Perhaps it’s all in my head, but dammit, I feel like I do. Okay, here goes… So the number one reason I watched Sinners and Saints was because in the preview it showed a particularly tough looking Kim Coates, which if [...]

Review by Ben Bussey In another fortuitous turn of events, our Japanese Exploitation month sees a new release from one of the most eminent contemporary J-sploitation directors, Noboru Iguchi. Now, it’s a bit strange to sit down to watch the ninth film of a film franchise – itself adapted from a long-running manga series – [...]

by Marc Patterson At this juncture, providing a review for Kill List on these pages is a little pointless. Both Ben and Nia have covered it separately, and done so quite well. In fact, I don’t think I could possibly utter a single word about director Ben Wheatley’s latest effort that would differ from their [...]

Review by Dustin Hall And so it is, with the first major horror release of the year, that 2012 opens with a shrug. Whilst I’d hoped for positive omens for a better film year than 2011, it’s perhaps a bit of déjà vu that last year began with The Rite as the first major horror [...]

Review by Nia Edwards-Behi If I may, before I begin to review this film properly, get a complaint out of the way. Whoever designed the cover of this DVD needs a pat on the back for having seen the cover for the I Spit on Your Grave remake and a big fat medal for thinking [...]

We’ve all been in the same situation: a movie night, perusing through Netflix not wanting to see the same thing that you’ve seen a hundred times already. Sometimes all you have to go on is cover art and you wonder if it’s safe to play that film with the interesting cover art. Play At Your [...]

Review by Ben Bussey There is a particular potency to films (or stories told in any medium, for that matter) which go to lengths to establish a naturalistic context, then introduce a supernatural element. When we are presented with a story world which we can swallow as real, it gives that bit more power to [...]

by Ben Bussey Right then… 2011. Okay. Man, these end of year reviews don’t half do my head in. There’s always a degree of assumption about them; an implication that the one writing the list has impeccable taste and saw everything of note that was released in the twelve months previous. This year more than [...]