Category: Reviews

Film Review: The Brood (1979)

July 16, 2013
10 mins to read

Exactly what UK fans of The Brood have been waiting for! At last! David Cronenberg’s classic 1979 body horror picture (his third after having made Shivers and Rabid) receives the treatment it deserves on UK blu-ray and DVD. It’s been a long time coming but hopefully, as this review will reveal, it’s been worth the …

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Audiobook Review: Spanish Girls by Paul Magrs

July 16, 2013
2 mins to read

A fun and entertaining black comedy! The plot of this story is fairly simplistic, and the characters are sketched in pretty broad strokes – and rather similar to the mother and son serial killers from the TV series Psychoville (right down to the son’s Harry H. Corbett accent) – but that doesn’t detract from some …

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Film Review: Slice & Dice: The Slasher Film Forever (2013)

July 15, 2013
6 mins to read

A party disc for slasher fans! The slasher film has its roots in movies of the 60s and 70s. It really came into its own, however, in the 80s. That was the time that everyone and their dog was running around the woods making movies in which a masked, often speechless maniac pursued the unwise, …

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Film Review: Scanners (1981)

July 11, 2013
11 mins to read

Thirty years later, Scanners still holds up well! The late seventies had seen a number of films involving telekinesis, most notably: Carrie, The Fury (both from Brian De Palma), the Aussie shocker Patrick, and The Medusa Touch. It must have seemed that Cronenberg’s Scanners, arriving a few years later, was a little late to the …