Category: Reviews

FrightFest 2013 Film Review: The Hypnotist (Hypnotisøren)

November 5, 2013
2 mins to read

Based on the bestselling book by Lars Kepler, The Hypnotist is a slow yet captivating movie from director, Lasse Hallström (Salmon Fishing in the Yemen). A family is slaughtered; the only survivor is the son, who is comatose and unable to help the police with their enquiries. Of course, the best thing to do in …

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Film Review: Bring Me the Head of the Machine Gun Woman (2013)

October 25, 2013
3 mins to read

“Trashy – delivered in style and buckets of bullets!” Essentially, you could sum this up with the tag-line “Grindhouse meets Grand Theft Auto”. Che, played by Jorge Alis, is a Chilean gangster feared by all – except that is, the machine gun woman, the unbelievably sexy Fernanda Urrejola who is out to kill him …

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FrightFest 2013 Film Review: 100 Bloody Acres

October 24, 2013
2 mins to read

“It’s so bizarre it actually works!” Reg and Lindsay Morgan run a small organic bone fertiliser company in the outback. Business is thriving thanks to a special ingredient: human bodies. When Reg picks up three youngsters on their way to a music festival, it’s clear they’re not going to make it. Like the tonally similar …

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The Best British Fantasy 2013 (Edited by Steve Haynes)

October 24, 2013
8 mins to read

“An inconsistent start to the Best British Fantasy series which features some blistering dark highlights and mediocre filler.” The Best British Fantasy 2013 is a collection edited by Steve Haynes and published by Salt. Yet despite the ‘fantasy’ title, both the content and editor’s introduction indicate a far broader stroke of stories. There are plans …