Category: Reviews

Dead End Drive-In

  • June 4, 2013

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The phenomenal success of George Miller’s Australian post-apocalyptic science fiction thrillers Mad Max (1979) and its sequel Mad Max 2 (The Road Warrior in the US) subsequently caused fall out of its own in the form of numerous rip-offs and imitations that all attempted to cash in on those movies’ heady mix of violence, action …

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Scanners II: The New Order

  • June 4, 2013

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Arriving a good ten years after Cronenberg’s original, Scanners II is probably a film that no one expected or even wanted. None of the original cast return, and the single connection to that first film (revealed about halfway in) feels almost like an afterthought. Keep on reading…

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Whitstable by Stephen Volk

  • May 24, 2013

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Fans of classic horror cinema, particularly from the likes of Hammer and Amicus, may well know that 26 May marks the centenary of the legendary Peter Cushing. To coincide with the occasion, veteran horror writer Stephen Volk – perhaps best known for creating the infamous Ghostwatch back in 1992 – has penned the novella Whitstable. …

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Re-animator and Bride of Re-animator

  • May 23, 2013

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Not content with already delivering one of the angriest columns to ever grace This Is Horror (see our previous post) yesterday, Simon Bestwick was on hand at one of Grimm Up North’s brilliant events earlier this month to review the legendary Re-animator and its sequel Bride of Re-animator. Re-animator review Bride of Re-animator review

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