“It’s so bizarre it actually works!” Reg and Lindsay Morgan run a small organic bone fertiliser company in the outback. Business is thriving thanks to a special ingredient: human bodies. When Reg picks up three youngsters on their way to a music festival, it’s clear they’re not going to make it. Like the tonally similar …
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“An inconsistent start to the Best British Fantasy series which features some blistering dark highlights and mediocre filler.” The Best British Fantasy 2013 is a collection edited by Steve Haynes and published by Salt. Yet despite the ‘fantasy’ title, both the content and editor’s introduction indicate a far broader stroke of stories. There are plans …
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“One of the best Lovecraft-inspired anthologies ever!” For the uninitiated, Fedogan & Bremer is a small press outfit that during the 1990s and 2000s rivalled Arkham House, both in the quality of the books it produced and the kind of writers it published. Beautiful hardcover volumes containing the reprinted work of the likes of Hugh …
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“As an answer to ‘Whatever happened to Danny from The Shining?’ it more than satisfies.” Sequels come with certain pre-conceptions, particularly in cases where the original has had a sustained period of success and is one of the defining classics of a whole genre. Add to the mix that the author is a worldwide bestseller …
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“The best presentation of The Mummy!” The Mummy lives again! And on Blu-ray! Arguably the best film ever to feature a bandaged-wrapped unstoppable killing machine has been granted an extra-packed three disc DVD/Blu-ray combo release courtesy of Icon Entertainment, and it’s certainly a cause for celebration. In 1959, after Hammer had scored worldwide success with …
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“Excellent low budget British thriller that keeps you guessing!” Part of the fun of watching a low budget British movie and having no expectations from it is that you can never be quite sure what you’re going to get. At this year’s Frightfest it was the UK that gave us one of the best (Borderlands) …
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“Incapable of infusing any sense of suspense!” Opening with a quote from top banana at the Church of Satan, Anton LaVey (who has a technical advisor credit here – see also The Devil’s Rain), and a score comprising of a theme lifted from one of the more diabolical sections of Symphonie Fantastique by Hector Berlioz, …
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“Very watchable and enjoyable!” Welcome to Deadman Wonderland, a privately-owned high-tech prison and amusement park. Only Japan could come up with that combination, and as usual, they do it well. Ganta Igarashi (name reversed to match Western standards) is a student at Nagano Public Middle School #4 when his life goes to hell in one …
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“A good, solid ghost story with great performances” Haunter is billed as Groundhog Day meets The Others, and that’s a pretty good summation. Lisa Johnson (Abigail Breslin) wakes up every day to the sound of her brother’s voice crackling through a walkie-talkie (better than Sonny and Cher, I suppose). You see, every day is the …
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“One of the best films at the festival!” In this superior sequel there are four segments of differing quality all linked by another senseless wraparound. In ‘Phase I Clinical Trials’, directed by You’re Next helmer, Adam Wingard, a man is fitted with a replacement eye that records his every move. The eye also enables him …
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