Category: Reviews

Film Review: The Shelter (2015)

“For those who are prepared to engage with it The Shelter will run deep and resonate within for a long time after the credits have rolled.” If you’re looking for an easily digestible, exposition heavy, run of the mill horror flick, then move along because John Fallon’s feature length directorial debut The Shelter is not …

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Film Four FrightFest 2015 Day 3 – Saturday 29 August 2015

Energy drinks at the ready, it’s time for the horror faithful to catch yet another crop of horror and genre premieres on day three of Film Four FrightFest 2015. On the cards this time around – heavy metal bands takes on rampaging demonic hordes in Deathgasm, Ben Cresciman inventively explores madness with Sun Choke, a dysfunctional …

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Film Four FrightFest 2015 Day 2 – Friday 28 August 2015

Day two of Film Four FrightFest 2015 sees the London film festival kicking into full gear, and as usual there is a bumper card of new horror and genre flicks to choose from across the main screens and three discovery screens. Read below to see what we made of The Diabolical, Hellions, AAAAAAAAH!, Jeruzalem and …

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Film Four FrightFest Day 1 – Thursday 27 August 2015

It’s quite amazing just how quickly Film Four FrightFest seems to come around every year. Now in its sixteenth year, the London based film festival is still going from strength to strength, and this year it proved to be bigger than ever, boasting an incredible number of horror and genre premieres, previews and retrospectives from …

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Fear The Walking Dead – First Episode Review

“Fear The Walking Dead has enough going for it that it can stand separate and distinct from its parent.” A little over a decade ago when Robert Kirkman’s black and white comic book quietly appeared on the scene there weren’t many people who could have predicted the huge impact it would have on pop culture, …

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Book Review: The Art of Horrible People by John Skipp

One of the Founding Fathers of Splatterpunk. Head Honcho el Bizarro. Weird Fiction Maestro. John Skipp wears all of these hats, and usually all of them are piled high on top of his head at the same time. He attacks the genres with prose, film, and music. Author of The Light at the End (with …

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Book Review: Dead Men (Libros De Inferno, Book One) by John C. Foster

Condemned to die, his execution didn’t go exactly as planned. Now John Smith blazes a trail down the highway in a black Cadillac. Destination: Wild and crazy Americana with all the trimmings. Veer off the path, you get nothing but pain and suffering right in the gut. Oh, and the voices…they’ll drive you insane. John’s …

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Film Review: Housebound (2014)

“Housebound makes all the right moves at the right time, and barely misses a beat doing so.” Housebound is a strange, wondrous beast that hides its best secrets for those that actually sit down and watch it rather than give everything away in the trailer as so many horror films seem happy to do these …

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Book Review: Under Ground by S.L. Grey

Under Ground is the new novel from S.L. Grey – a collaboration between The Three author Sarah Lotz and South African writer Louis Greenberg. The story takes place in The Sanctum, a luxurious survival structure buried deep underground in Maine. The Sanctum is a paranoid survivalist’s dream, anyone can buy an apartment for the right …

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Film Review: GirlHouse (2014)

“Whilst very much a back-to-basics slasher effort, GirlHouse proves itself to be a consistently entertaining ride” In order to make enough extra cash to see her through her university studies, student Kylie signs up to be the latest addition to the roster of online fap-fest “GirlHouse”. The site itself is a members only voyage of …

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