Category: Reviews

Book Review: Plastic by Christopher Fowler

August 22, 2013
4 mins to read

“Clever, thrilling, funny, creepy, and utterly compelling!” Christopher Fowler is what might be termed a stalwart of genre writing. Ever since his explosive debut novel Roofworld hit the stands, he’s been a writer whose work has provoked interest and admiration across the board. Fowler’s books often straddle genres, featuring elements of crime, horror, and science …

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Film Review: Deranged (1974)

August 19, 2013
11 mins to read

“Chock-full of wonderfully diseased invention” Ed Gein’s name will be instantly familiar to most horror fans; the necrophile’s activities in late 50s rural Wisconsin inspired a few of the most famous films in the genre. Although Gein cannot be classified as a serial killer, having ‘only’ murdered two women, his obsession with death and his …

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Film Review: Scanners III: The Takeover (1992)

August 14, 2013
4 mins to read

“Zany!” This second sequel cuts all ties with the previous outing, and therefore with Cronenberg’s. The previous film had been a direct sequel to the first, and even attempted, not always successfully, to retain and even expand on that film’s more interesting ideas. Scanners III makes no such efforts. After a failed mugging unleashed her …

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Film Review: The Initiation (1984)

August 13, 2013
4 mins to read

“It really should have been a decent addition to the genre.” When sitting down to watch a slasher film from any decade, you shouldn’t expect to have your mind blown. What you should expect is blood, boobs, and bad acting. You see, while slasher films may not be wholly original thematically (often copy-and-pasting John Carpenter’s …