Category: Reviews

Review: High Moor by Graeme Reynolds

January 29, 2013
1 mins to read

If High Moor were a Premier League football match it would be a Monday Night Special between two mid-table sides that ends in a 4-4 draw or a 6-3 win; it’s not the beautiful game played out by twenty-two players at the height of their technical abilities but, by god, it’s thoroughly entertaining. The bulk …

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Review: The Possession

January 21, 2013
1 mins to read

The last couple of years have seen a boom in possession and exorcism films, with a sliding scale in quality, of which Lionsgate’s release of The Possession falls somewhere in the middle. Keep on reading…

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Review: Magic: An Anthology of the Esoteric and Arcane (Edited by Jonathan Oliver)

January 15, 2013
1 mins to read

Magic is Jonathan Oliver’s third anthology, following hot on the heels of The End Of The Line and House Of Fear, also from Solaris. Oliver’s first two anthologies established him as a new editor to watch, and Magic goes on to cement his reputation, assembling a roll-call of both well-established (Audrey Niffenegger, Christopher Fowler, Storm …

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Review: Grave Encounters

January 15, 2013
1 mins to read

Found footage, the concept of using discovered footage left behind by dead or missing protagonists, has been around in horror since it was used in Cannibal Holocaust in the 80s. After The Blair Witch Project’s cinema release in 1999, there has been a resurgence of this style of film in horror, pushed further along in …