Category: Reviews

The Bay (2012)

March 18, 2013
1 mins to read

The found footage film is the cinematic equivalent of the abandoned manuscript or the notebook found in a deserted house. It’s an effective, potentially powerful way to add verisimilitude to a story (and get around holes in the budget), as The Blair Witch Project showed so effectively back in 1999, so it’s unsurprising that the last decade …

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Death’s Apprentice: A Grimm City Novel by K.W.Jeter and Gareth Jefferson Jones

March 13, 2013
1 mins to read

The Brothers Grimm are responsible for some of the most terrifying fairytales ever committed to paper. Disney has also played a part in bringing them to the attention of children the world over, albeit in toned-down versions peppered with musical numbers and dancing forest-animals. Death’s Apprentice: A Grimm City Novel does the exact opposite, combining the original …

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Django Prepare A Coffin

March 12, 2013
1 mins to read

Sergio Corbucci’s Django (1966) is one of the all-time great spaghetti westerns. A film grimmer in tone than Sergio Leone’s classic Man With No Name trilogy, Corbucci’s film distinguished itself by being set in the muddiest, coldest, most forbidding town to be seen in a western for many a year; by set pieces that were as outlandish and atmospheric …

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Grimmfest Reviews: Snowtown & Sleep Tight

March 11, 2013
1 mins to read

On February 21, Simon Bestwick was at the Dancehouse Theatre to catch the Grimmfest double bill of Snowtown and Sleep Tight. Today, Simon brings you his thoughts on both horror films. Snowtown review Sleep Tight review