Halloween takes a bold but successful move. For a well established and beloved franchise, it is a brave move to undo and wipe-away all of the movies that followed the 1978 original and treat this film as the only true sequel. … Continue reading Horror Month: Halloween (2018) Review
There is a great idea at the centre of Halloween II that doesn’t quite work. Unlike many other sequels, especially ones with a gap as large between movies as this one, Halloween begins almost immediately after the last film. The Halloween … Continue reading Horror Month: Halloween II (1981) Review
Zombies is a horror genre that has been done to death (pardon the pun) and it is refreshing when something new comes along to offer a different take on the genre. There isn’t much that Train to Busan offers differently as … Continue reading Zombie Month: Train to Busan (2016) Review
Unlike the first movie which kept it’s ties to the video-game it was based on very loose, Resident Evil Apocalypse at least attempts to make better links and some of which are actually fairly successful. This means that alongside Milla Jovovich’s returning Alice … Continue reading Zombie Month: Resident Evil Apocalypse (2004) Review
Kids will always be creepy. Be it their angelic voices saying twisted things or their ability to be places they shouldn’t be: they will always strike fear if they are involved in horror. Creating a village full of creepy, psychotic children … Continue reading Horror Month: Village of the Damned (1995) Review
Reality Television has slowly moved away from humiliating competitions towards following the private lives of pseudo-celebrities so before it starts My Little Eye feels dated. It doesn’t help that it relies heavily on technology that has been clearly updated, down to … Continue reading Horror Month: My Little Eye (2002) Review
The 1600s in the newly discovered America is so full of suspicion, superstition and violence against each other that you don’t necessarily need anything supernatural to build a horror movie. The Witch could have gone down this ambiguous route, with the audience … Continue reading Horror Month: The Witch (2015) Review
There is something perfectly 90s about The Faculty. Made at a time when slasher movies were back in vogue (due in to small part to Wes Craven’s Scream), The Faculty captures popular culture with a high-concept premise, young 90s newcomer cast … Continue reading Horror Month: The Faculty (1998) Review
There is a perfect sense of unnerving that pervades Hereditary from start to finish. This is due to a couple of aspects. For one, you’re never really sure what is happening or whether you can believe what is happening. Second is … Continue reading Horror Month: Hereditary (2018) Review
There is a reason that Halloween is such an iconic horror movie. The moment that theme starts, before any actual images appear on-screen, the chills begin to creep-up your spine. It sets the tone for the cold, unique opening as we … Continue reading Horror Month: Halloween (1978) Review
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