Category: Reviews

Film Review: Video Nasties Night: Ban this Filth! Cube Cinema, Bristol, 16.09.15

November 17, 2015
7 mins to read

“They’re ridiculous and they shouldn’t be as effective as they are. But then again, perhaps that’s why some Video Nasties are still so fascinating to this day” To celebrate the Blu-ray release of Joe D’Amato’s legendary 1980 Nasty-piece, Anthropophagus (also known in some circles as The Savage Island, Zombie 7, and the shockingly, offensively fellatial …

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Book Review: Three Moments Of An Explosion: Stories by China Miéville

November 16, 2015
7 mins to read

“The stories burrow under your skin, crawl back out again, and leave you playing with the wounds!” It’s been ten years since China Miéville’s first short fiction collection, Looking For Jake & Other Stories, was published. During the ensuing decade Miéville’s reputation as a novelist has grown from strength-to-strength, gaining him a mantle-load of …

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Film Review: Heir (2015)

November 6, 2015
3 mins to read

“Heir’s ending is one that sticks firmly in the mind with a brave image of purely human horror, dismay and revulsion.” Director Richard Powell’s 14-minute short film Heir opens on a palpably ominous note. A lone man, Gordon, sits in a darkened room, lit only by the artificial light of his computer monitor. An email …

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Book Review: The Night Clock by Paul Meloy

November 4, 2015
5 mins to read

“Meloy is a master at developing characters who feel real.” Although The Night Clock is Paul Meloy’s debut novel there is a real sense that his body of short fiction work has been building towards this accomplished novel which is by turn captivating, humorous, devastating, but ultimately uplifting. No prior knowledge of the author’s work …