Category: Reviews

Film Review: Tales Of Halloween (2015)

  • October 15, 2015

  • 5 mins to read

“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)

  • October 13, 2015

  • 4 mins to read

“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

  • September 29, 2015

  • 5 mins to read

“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

  • September 29, 2015

  • 4 mins to read

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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