Category: Reviews

Book Review: Finders Keepers by Stephen King

“He not only hits a home run with this but knocks it clean out of the park.” There’s a good chance if you’re one of the many millions of Stephen King fans around the world that you feel a form of literary addiction, in that you absolutely cannot get enough from Maine’s Master of the …

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Film Review: It Follows (2014)

“Does it deserve all of the praise lavished on it? The simple answer is both yes and no.” After an apparently innocent sexual encounter turns into something altogether more sinister, a young woman named Jay finds that she is being stalked by a relentless being that can assume the form of anyone, and that will …

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Book Review: ClownFellas by Carlton Mellick III

“If Martin Scorsese and Ronald McDonald had a baby, this would be it. A must read whether you are a fan of bizarro or not.” Welcome to Little Bigtop, the notorious clown neighbourhood of New York, where clowns outnumber humans, or vanillas, ten to one. What was once a major tourist attraction is now a …

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Book Review: Disintegration by Richard Thomas

“If this first installment is any indication about the quality of the series, then we feel it’s safe to say Thomas has a winner here.” Disintegration, by Richard Thomas (Transubstantiate, Staring Into The Abyss), asks us how far are we willing to go once we’ve lost everything that’s ever mattered in life. Those familiar with …

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Film Review: Stonehearst Asylum (2014)

“A somewhat disappointing misfire of poorly judged screenplay, badly timed twists, and missed opportunities.” When freshly graduated doctor, Edward Newgate arrives at the remote, snow bound Stonehearst Asylum on Christmas Eve of 1889 to take up a position working under Dr Salt, he finds that all is not as he expected – Dr Salt has …

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Film Review: Tom Holland’s Twisted Tales (2015)

“There’s certainly potential here.” First things first: this isn’t a movie. Oh, it looks like one and it’s packaged to appear as a new anthology film, but it’s not except in the sense that someone’s pasted all the episodes of the web series Twisted Tales into one longer piece of film. True anthology films have …

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Book Review: The Scarlet Gospels by Clive Barker

“As a standalone story it has merit certainly, and there are passages contained within that serve as a reminder of Barker’s greatness.” Expectations can be such dangerous beasts, especially so in the case of a new and much-anticipated book from a favourite author, and a much lauded writer at that. Clive Barker’s The Scarlet Gospels …

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Film Review: The Haunting of Radcliffe House (2014)

“Whilst there’s nothing actually terrible about it, there’s nothing that special or original about it either.” The Haunting of Radcliffe House (originally entitled Altar, fact fans) is the latest film from writer/director Nick Willing, probably best known for the impressively bleak and rather wonderful Photographing Fairies (which really needs to get a good DVD/BluRay release …

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Book Review: Consumption by Heather Herrman

“An accomplished final third which builds tension and excitement in equal measure towards the explosive conclusion.” Comparing an author’s debut novel to the work of an established author working in the same genre is a common promotional tactic publishers use to generate a buzz for a new book. However, comparing a book to three such …

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Film Review: Tusk (2014)

“It was one of Kevin Smith’s own podcasts that generated the idea for this film, and perhaps it should have remained as just that – an idea.” After his interview assignment commits suicide, podcaster Wallace Bryton finds himself stuck in Canada until he can get the next flight out. While in the men’s room of …

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