Category: Reviews

Film Review: Stonehearst Asylum (2014)

  • June 22, 2015

  • 5 mins to read

“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)

  • June 16, 2015

  • 5 mins to read

“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

  • June 12, 2015

  • 7 mins to read

“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)

  • June 3, 2015

  • 5 mins to read

“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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