Category: Reviews

FrightFest 2013 Film Review: The Dyatlov Pass Incident

September 30, 2013
4 mins to read

“A generic found footage film!” Think The Blair Witch Project but with snow instead of leaves and you pretty much have the plot of this found-footage movie. Not content with a Google search, five young filmmakers set out to recreate the episode where nine Russians mysteriously disappeared in the Ural Mountains in 1959. An avalanche …

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FrightFest 2013 Film Review: You’re Next

September 29, 2013
4 mins to read

“Pitch-black humour, gory deaths and enough twists and turns to keep you satisfied throughout!” After releasing 2010’s okay but unspectacular A Horrible Way To Die and the ‘Tape 56’ short in V/H/S, anticipation is decidedly mixed for Adam Wingard’s You’re Next. Yet what we are presented with is hands-down the best film of the opening …

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Book Review: Holes for Faces by Ramsey Campbell

September 26, 2013
5 mins to read

“Deserves to be in any discerning horror fan’s library!” “Future generations will regard (Ramsey Campbell) as the leading horror writer of our generation,” S T Joshi is quoted as saying on the cover of this latest short story collection from “Britain’s most respected living horror writer”. It would probably be possible to write an entire …

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Film Review: Outpost 11

September 23, 2013
5 mins to read

“Unsettling visuals and potent atmospherics.” Outpost 11 is a very strange film. No two ways about it. Imagine a sort of snowbound, steampunk version of Sidney Lumet’s The Hill where David Lynch took over the director’s chair, and you’re getting there. At the very least you’ll have some idea as to whether or not you …