Almost a decade had gone by since George A. Romero revolutionized horror cinema with his reinvention of the zombie in 1968’s Night of the Living Dead, when he started to develop its follow-up. By this time, Romero’s reanimated, rotting, shambling, ...

Re-Animator (1985) is Stuart Gordon’s loose contemporary adaptation of H. P. Lovecraft’s 1922 short story Herbert West – Reanimator, which was written as a parody of Mary Shelley’s most famous work, the 1818 Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. Thanks ...

  Visitor Q (Bijitâ Q, 2001) is director Takashi Miike’s contribution to the Love Cinema series, which is made up of six ultra-low budget straight-to-video releases by independent filmmakers. They were made as an experimental project that explored Digital Video, ...

Tobe Hooper made The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) with one specific intension in mind – to hate us and ruthlessly attack us, both psychologically and emotionally. The film’s sole intention is to drive us mad with its insane sights ...

With Night of the Living Dead (1968), George A. Romero rejuvenated the horror genre by reinventing the now iconic figure of the zombie in popular culture. His 1978 film Martin – a realistic interpretation of the vampire mythology – was ...

Directed by Herman Yau, Yi boh lai beng duk (Ebola Syndrome, 1996) is an infamous Hong Kong CAT III entry. Since 1988, Category III has been Hong Kong’s most restrictive certificate – “No persons younger than 18 years of age ...

Romeo’s Distress (2016) is a micro-budgeted production that is a shining star of an example of when serious talent and very hard work gets the most out of such meagre resources. The result is high production values and an effective ...

Buio Omega/Beyond the Darkness (1979), is a unique gore film in that it focuses more on the bodies of its female victims when they are deceased rather than when they are attacked when living, entailing sickening scenes of their dismemberment. There ...

Written and directed by Italian cinematographer turned filmmaker, the late Massimo Dallamano, Cosa avete fatto a Solange?/What Have You done to Solange? (1972) is an Italian/West German production.  While it is credited as being based on the novel The Clue of ...