Category: Reviews

Film Review: Tales Of Halloween (2015)

“Has a twinkle in its eye and a style that will undoubtedly make Tales of Halloween a firm Halloween favourite for many.” Aimed squarely at horror fans with a particular love of the likes of Creepshow, Tales From the Crypt and Trick ‘r’ Treat, a group of eleven directors bring us this new portmanteau movie …

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TV Review: The Green Man (1990)

“The Green Man is an original combination of traditional ghost story and dark sex comedy.” The Green Man is an early nineties BBC mini-series based on Kingsley Amis’s novel of the same name. The three part adaptation is largely faithful to the source material; those unfamiliar with the novel might be expecting The Wicker Man …

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Book Review: Peripheral Visions: The Collected Ghost Stories by Robert Hood

“Peripheral Visions explores twisted realities, life after death, and the phantoms of troubled minds.” Peripheral Visions is a vast, 44-strong collection of the collected ghost stories to date of Australian author Robert Hood. Hood may not be a household name amongst British horror fans, but the quality of the stories in this book (available as a …

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Top 5 of FrightFest 2015 – No. 1: Sun Choke

This Is Horror head of film and television Jason Hicks’ rundown of his personal top five films shown at Film Four Frightfest 2015 comes to a close as he reviews his favourite film of the festival — the visually beautiful psychological drama Sun Choke. “Sun Choke is a tense and sometimes uncomfortable piece of hallucinatory …

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Top 5 of FrightFest 2015 – No. 2: Deathgasm

This Is Horror head of film and television Jason Hicks continues to review his personal top five films shown at Film Four Frightfest 2015. In at number two is gore-soaked New Zealand heavy metal comedy-horror Deathgasm. “The sight of a large rubber dildo being smashed into the face of one of the demonically possessed is …

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Top 5 of FrightFest 2015 – No. 3: Nina Forever

This Is Horror head of film and television Jason Hicks continues his countdown of the top five films shown at Film Four Frightfest 2015. At number three is British love triangle drama with a twist Nina Forever. “Nina Forever has so much more to offer than the apparently unending spew of uninspired films that seems to …

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Top 5 of FrightFest 2015 – No. 4: They look Like People

This Is Horror head of film and television Jason Hicks continues to run down his top five films shown at Film Four Frightfest 2015. In at number four is low budget indieThey Look Like People from director Perry Blackshear. “They Look Like People is tense, refreshingly different and will keep you engaged throughout.” This great, …

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Top 5 of FrightFest 2015 – 5: We Are Still Here

This Is Horror head of film and television Jason Hicks runs down his top five films shown at Film Four Frightfest 2015. In at number five is the Ted Geohegan directed supernatural chiller We Are Still Here. “We Are Still Here draws on horror films of the past that Geohegan obviously loves” Director Ted Geohegan …

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Film Four FrightFest 2015 Day 5 – Monday 31 August 2015

It’s hardly surprising, but there are a more than a few tired looking faces among the crowds of weekend pass holders on the fifth and final day of Film Four FrightFest 2015. Still, with yet another bumper crop of new genre films including Nina Forever, Curve, Last Girl Standing, Emelie and festival closer Tales Of …

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Film Four FrightFest 2015 Day 4 – Sunday 30 August 2015

It’s day four of the biggest weekend of horror and genre film festival in the UK calendar and it’s time for yet another mixed bunch of new movies from around the world. Films this time around include Australian genre-bender Inner Demon, Anglo-French serial killer tale Road Games, disturbing Spanish speaking kidnap horror Scherzo Diabolico and budget …

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