Film Reviews

To even the most casual genre fan, iconic performer Lance Henriksen is an instantly recognizable figure. His rugged features and gravelly voice, along with his steadfast commitment to the roles he’s embodied, has gained him fans across a broad spectrum. ...

Hidden in the Woods (2012): one of the most grueling, unrelenting exercises in sickening violence you’re likely to see. Chilean writer / director Patricio Valladares reduces the “torture porn” sub-genre to new lows. The film brings together Carolina Escobar and ...

Clive Barker’s brand of horror is hard to define. Falling somewhere between the popularpulp of Stephen King and the more erudite terrors of Peter Straub, it is mainly Barker’s short stories and novelettes which have made their way to the big ...

Steve Barker’s zombie twist, Outpost: Black Sun (2012), is quite frankly boring. The film opens with the end of WW2, where a German scientist, Klausener (David Gant), has been secretly trying to create an army of undead Nazi soldiers. Fast ...

Antonio and Marco Manetti’s new horror/thriller, Paura 3D (2012), is one of the most nauseating and balefully grimy films I’ve seen in years. And that’s saying something. The film centers on young mechanic Ale (Domenico Diele), who overhears a conversation between ...

The advantage small scale British films have over big studio productions is their artistic freedom. Matthias Hoene’s new horror comedy, Cockneys Vs Zombies (2012) takes full advantage of that. Starring British icons Richard Briers and Honor Blackman, this is a ...

Conor McMahon’s Stitches (2012) is British comedian Ross Noble’s film debut. Though similar in ways to the anarchic Funny Man (1994)—where the puerile humor is likely to repulse—Stitches’ grossness will have you doubled up with laughter. Stiches (Noble) is a ...

Dark Castle Entertainment’s new supernatural film, The Apparition, boasts stars from Twilight, Gossip Girl, and the Harry Potter series. It also represents itself with an awful poster design depicting a young woman covered in creepy hands. Dark Castle has a ...

Reality is often more frightening than make-believe. A fact which gives the new British horror When The Lights Went Out an added frisson of excitement. According to a claim when the film opens, director/writer Pat Holden’s atmospheric chiller is based ...

World War I left England many ghosts. A generation of men—that Gertrude Stein later called The Lost Generation—was sent to the trenches. And of those who fought in the Great War, some came back, physically and spiritually fractured beyond repair, ...