DVD Review: Grimm Love (2010)
Distributor: Fangoria Fright Fest / Phase 4
DVD Release Date: September 28, 2010
Directed By: Martin Weisz
Cast: Keri Russell, Thomas Kretschmann, Thomas Huber
Review By: Kayley Viteo
First things first – if you ever want to lose several hours reading a fascinatingly gruesome story, search for Armin Meiwes, the man upon which this film is heavily based. The short version of Meiwes’ tale is that on March of 2001, he met Bernd Brandes over the Internet after Meiwes posted an ad for someone to meet a peculiar requirement: must …

The Evil Dead (Blu-ray Review)
Distributor: Anchor Bay
Release Date: August 31, 2010
Review by Marc Patterson
Let’s start this review off with a little cinematic confessional. Ahem… *clears throat*
I’ve never been able to sit straight through a viewing of The Evil Dead in just one shot. It’s true. I’ve always had to pause it, get up, and take a break from the maniacal craziness on screen. I’m not talking about having to go for a walk or anything. More like hit the fridge for a fresh beer, take …

The Dead (2009)
Directed by: Jonathan & Howard J Ford
Starring: Rob Freeman, Prince David Oseia
Review by: Ben Bussey
Africa. The dead are rising from their graves with a hunger for the flesh of the living. As a village falls under an attack, a young boy manages to escape on a Jeep. Meanwhile, an American military plane tries and fails to get its passengers back home. Chance throws two survivors together: US Army engineer Lt. Brian Murphy (Freeman), and African Army Sgt. Daniel Dembele (Oseia), father of the boy who escaped. Knowing the …

Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship and Videotape (2010)
Director: Jake West
Starring: Martin Barker, Graham Bright, Peter Kruger, Julian Petley
Review by: Ben Bussey
They called them the Video Nasties. They were the new wave of horror films that took things to a whole new level of violence and viscera: rape, mutilation, disembowelment and cannibalism were the order of the day, all presented in lingering detail. Mostly low-budget affairs, such films might in earlier times have happily existed without too many people making a fuss. But on the new medium of videotape, these films …

The Tortured (2010)
Directed by: Robert Lieberman
Starring: Erica Christensen, Jesse Metcalfe, Bill Moseley
Review by: Ben Bussey
Craig and Elise are a handsome, well-to-do professional couple with a comfortable married life and a beloved six year old child, who find themselves faced with the situation that every parent lives in fear of: their son is abducted by a deranged paedophile, and not long thereafter found dead. It should go without saying that these leaves them broken people. Even though the killer is in short order caught, tried and convicted for twenty to life, …

I Spit On Your Grave (2010)
Directed by: Steven R. Monroe
Starring: Sarah Butler, Daniel Franzese, Chad Lindberg, Rodney Eastman
Review by: Ben Bussey
Jennifer Hills is about to start writing her second novel. She drives up to an idyllic lakeside cabin in the heart of a beautiful wood, hoping for nothing more than a few months of peace and solitude, in which she can write, drink a little wine, and smoke some reefer. Unfortunately (and that really isn’t a strong enough word here), she has unwittingly attracted the attention of a number of …

Film Review: The Last Exorcism (2010)
Directed By: Daniel Stamm
Cast: Patrick Fabian, Ashley Bell, Iris Bahr, Louis Herthum
Review By: Kayley Viteo
One of the things I usually find lacking in demonic possession movies is that (except for very few) the emotion, what I feel is the foundation in these types of films, gets lost somewhere. More often than not, you end up with these movies straddling the good – but not great – range, simply because they freak you out for a moment, but nothing about them really stays with you. What …

F (2010)
Directed by: Johannes Roberts
Starring: David Schofield, Eliza Bennett, Emma Cleasby, Ruth Gemmell, Juliet Aubrey
Review by: Ben Bussey
The life of Robert Anderson (Schofield) would not make a good advertisment for the teaching profession. Divorced from his wife, distanced from his daughter – who is also one of his pupils – Anderson is a shadow of a man, riddled with anxiety. And it’s not just jaded; he’s afraid, and with good reason. A teenage boy once broke his nose in class, after being given an F for an essay. After being …

The Good, The Bad, The Weird (2008)
Studio: MPI Home Video
Release Date: August 17, 2010
Directed By: Ji-woon Kim
Cast: Woo-sung Jung, Byung-hun Lee, Kang-ho Song.
Review By: Annie Riordan
1940′s Manchuria. A crazy sexy hitman (The Bad) is hired to steal a treasure map from a Japanese official aboard a train. Beating him to the punch is a spectacularly doofusy robber (The Weird), who hopes to buy a farm for himself and his beloved Granny with the treasures that the map yields. Out to collect the bounty on both of their heads is a …

The Thaw (2009)
Studio: Lionsgate
Release Date: October 6, 2009
Directed By: Mark A. Lewis
Cast: Val Kilmer, Martha MacIsaac, Viv Leacock, Aaron Ashmore & Kyle Schmid
Review By: Annie Riordan
Global warming. Climate change. Greenhouse effect. Call it what you will. Believe in it or not, the fact remains that Eco-Terror is the new wave in horror. From Larry Fessenden’s sober take on the subject in 2006’s The Last Winter to Roland Emmerich’s ridiculously overblown 2012, terror in the form of melting ice caps has never been more popular.
Nor has it ever been less …