Category: Reviews

FrightFest 2013 Film Review: Curse of Chucky

September 18, 2013
5 mins to read

“A step in the right direction with an after-credit sequence you do not want to miss.” Everyone’s favourite copper-topped doll is back for more murder and hijinks. When a strange package arrives at Nica’s door, she gladly signs for it and takes it into the house. What’s in the box? That’s right: Chucky, and this …

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Film Review: Sawney: Flesh of Man

September 18, 2013
5 mins to read

“Gruesome, visceral, blackly funny and harrowing!” For those unfamiliar with the legend, Sawney Bean was a possibly-mythical, possibly-real Scottish cannibal who, along with his wife,and raised a family of equally murderous children and (via incest) grandchildren. They lived in a cave and preyed on unwary travellers, who they robbed, killed and ate. Eventually they …

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Film Review: The Body (El Cuerpo) (2012)

September 10, 2013
17 mins to read

“A good film with very strong performances” In the hands of Tinseltown’s finest, the disappearance of a body from a morgue would be only the beginning of a rollercoaster adventure through Europe, with little time to ponder on the bizarreness of that one situation. Currently even the most mainstream of blockbusters can’t resist packing breakneck …

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Film Review: The World’s End (2013)

August 27, 2013
5 mins to read

“Sharp, fun and chest-burstingly funny!” The World’s End is a nostalgic buddy comedy inter-spliced with surreal science fiction and firm nods towards extraterrestrial invasion films like The Invasion of The Body Snatchers. In true ‘Cornetto Trilogy’ style it is set in a seemingly harmless and quintessential English town with a – you guessed it – …