Category: Reviews

FrightFest 2013 Film Review: No One Lives (2012)

November 14, 2013
4 mins to read

“The carnage is creative and unflinching!” Produced by WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment) and starring Luke Evans, No One Lives begins rather ambiguously and manages to develop tension within the first fifteen minutes or so. A couple arrive at a motel and decide to go out for a steak, but as luck would have it, they …

1 comment

Permanent link to this article: https://www.thisishorror.co.uk/film-review-lives-2012/

FrightFest 2013 Film Review: Frankenstein’s Army

November 8, 2013
3 mins to read

“A whacky film that makes very little sense and somehow succeeds!” What this film lacks in plot it makes up for in bizarre ingenuity. Essentially a found-footage film set at the end of WWII, Frankenstein’s Army sees a battalion of Russian soldiers stumble upon a Nazi laboratory filled with nightmarish monsters created and constructed from …

Leave comment

Permanent link to this article: https://www.thisishorror.co.uk/frightfest-2013-film-review-frankensteins-army/

Book Review: Soul Masque by Terry Grimwood

November 7, 2013
2 mins to read

“A fast, slick, tautly-told tale!” Spectral Press’ tenth chapbook begins at the story’s end and ends at its beginning, introducing along the way four damaged or damaging protagonists whose lives connect in the course of the tale: dominatrix Sian, burned-out priest turned junkie Jon, his helper and lover Meg, and unwilling assassin Rennie. All four have …

Leave comment

Permanent link to this article: https://www.thisishorror.co.uk/book-review-soul-masque-terry-grimwood/

Book Review: Saxon’s Bane by Geoffrey Gudgion

November 6, 2013
4 mins to read

“A supremely well-written novel!” In the acknowledgments to this his first novel, Geoffrey Gudgion credits several writing groups and editors with assisting him in crafting the book into its final form. This input is clear to see in the first three chapters which are finely honed, crisp and concise. They also threaten to derail the …