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The Last House on the Left

The Last House on the Left

(3 stars)11 Jun 2009

Given the repellent nature of Wes Craven’s scuzzy little 1972 rape and revenge shocker, it’s a relief to find this glossy remake straying somewhat from the original’s sleazy path. Craven and original producer Sean S Cunningham steer the hand of Dennis…

Martyrs

Martyrs

(3 stars)28 May 2009

(18) 95min This French splatter fest announces its deeply unpleasant intentions with a pre-title sequence in which a ten-year-old girl named Lucie is found hideously abused outside of a disused factory several months after being abducted by unknown…

Drag Me to Hell

Drag Me to Hell

(4 stars)14 May 2009

Life is good for ambitious LA loan officer Christine (Alison Lohman). She has a charming boyfriend (Justin Long) and great prospects. That is until she refuses an OAP an extension on her home loan, leaving the old woman shamed and homeless. In return a…

Tormented

Tormented

(1 star)14 May 2009

(15) 91min Director Jon Wright wants his secondary school comedy horror to be the favourite pupil of Professor Shaun of the Dead and Ms Heathers, but his failure to study film history or show a basic grasp of storytelling ensures that Tormented makes…

Edinburgh International Film Festival announces programme

Edinburgh International Film Festival announces programme

6 May 2009

The Edinburgh International Film Festival was announced today. The programme Includes 135 features from 33 countries and includes 23 World Premieres. Highlights from the programme include opening film Away We Go from British director Sam Mendes on 17…

Manhunt

Manhunt

(3 stars)30 Apr 2009

HORROR Europe is the best place for horror at the moment with Spain (The Orphanage, [Rec]), France (Frontier(s), Martyrs) and Sweden (Let the Right One In) producing some of the most startling, original and terrifying films of recent years. With…

The Uninvited

The Uninvited

(2 stars)16 Apr 2009

(15) 87min Kim Ji-woon’s Korean horror A Tale of Two Sisters undergoes the Hollywood treatment in this plush-but-empty DreamWorks remake, with Emily Browning and Arielle Kebbel cast as disturbed siblings Anna and Alex Ivers. The two sisters are…

Let The Right One In (Lat Den Ratte Komma In)

Let The Right One In (Lat Den Ratte Komma In)

(4 stars)2 Apr 2009

DRAMA/HORROR Let the Right One In is a chilling Swedish coming-of-age story that breathes new life into a tired vampire genre marred by American high school teenagers and Christian lobbyist novelists (Stephanie Meyer, Anne Rice). It’s the early…

Also Released - Film

Also Released - Film

19 Mar 2009

Barry Lyndon (PG) 187min ●●●●● Kubrick’s epic adaptation of William Makepeace Thackery’s picaresque novel about the attempts of an Irish upstart to become a member of the English aristocracy in the 18th century re-emerges for re-evaluation on a…

Horror DVD roundup

Horror DVD roundup

19 Mar 2009

Saw reshaped the landscape of modern horror, and you can relive it all with The Saw Goreology (Lionsgate) ●●●. The first two are refreshingly brutal, but parts IV and V (pictured) become bogged down in their own mythology. However, you can always rely…

Lesbian Vampire Killers

Lesbian Vampire Killers

(2 stars)19 Mar 2009

HORROR/COMEDY Overexposure can shoot down even the most promising career. And while Mathew Horne and James Corden aren’t quite there yet, they need to be careful. A double act since their award-winning Gavin & Stacey, for their first big screen…

The Antichrist

The Antichrist

(1 star)19 Mar 2009

HORROR The Italians wasted no time ripping off the enormous success of The Exorcist, knocking out this dreadful demonic possession horror less than a year after Linda Blair blew green chunks all over Max von Sydow back in 1974. The Antichrist (aka…

Interview: Toby Wilkins on the making of Splinter

Splinter - Toby Wilkins interview

18 Mar 2009

Toby Wilkins cut his teeth in graphic design and visual effects (his work can be seen in everything from Cats & Dogs and Scooby Doo 2 to Red Dragon and Rush Hour 2) moving on to directing shorts, such as the award winning Kidney Thieves as well as a…

Carnival of Souls

Carnival of Souls

(5 stars)5 Mar 2009

HORROR Herk Harvey’s 1962 slice of low-budget horror has become a touchstone of today’s horror cinema, foreshadowing genre classics like George A Romero’s Night of the Living Dead and M Night Shyamalan’s The Sixth Sense. After surviving a violent…

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Glasgow Film Festival: FrightFest

19 Feb 2009

There’s something primal about being scared, that jolt of adrenaline that makes us feel alive. Going back to the monsters of Greek and Roman mythology to scary stories told round the campfire, the horror genre is one of the oldest recorded forms of…

Bruce Campbell

Bruce Campbell

19 Feb 2009

Bruce Campbell is the unrepentant king of the Bs. He burst onto the world of underground cinema with the ultimate video nasty, The Evil Dead, its two sequels, and a string of unacknowledged classics such as Maniac Cop, Crimewave, Man With the Screaming…

The Unborn

The Unborn

(2 stars)19 Feb 2009

(15) 87min HORROR Screenwriter David S Goyer’s literate work on Christopher Nolan’s Batman has little relation to his work here as writer and director. The Unborn is a by-the-numbers fright-flick elevated by a resonant grounding in Jewish…

Playlist

Playlist

5 Feb 2009

There’s nothing quite like a good spine chiller for passing the long, dark winter nights; MR James was a master of the genre, and although his work has irregularly been translated into the mediums of film and television, the results have been uncommonly…

The Brøken

The Brøken

(3 stars)22 Jan 2009

HORROR/THRILLER Edgar Allen Poe’s short story William Wilson meets Hitchcock’s Marnie in Cashback writer and director Sean Ellis’ second feature. When beautiful and seemingly stable radiologist Gina McVey (Lena Headey) wakes in a London hospital…

The Survivor

The Survivor

(3 stars)21 Jan 2009

HORROR Somehow I first saw The Survivor on TV round my gran’s house when I was about seven-years-old, and it terrified me to my core. I don’t think I even made the end of the film. Now, this 1981 adaptation of James Herbert’s book is getting a…

Audio: Fear in Lothian - Special effect exhibition

Audio: Fear in Lothian - Special effects exhibition

19 Dec 2008

Fear in Lothian is an exhibition in The Cameo Cinema bar, Edinburgh which showcases some of the the models used by Gibbet Studios, a company who provide special effects services for film shoots. Here Calum MacDonald talks to Paul Dale from The List…

Film - Also Released

Film - Also Released

11 Dec 2008

White Christmas (U) 120min New digital print of this Christmas staple. GFT, Glasgow and Filmhouse, Edinburgh from Fri 12-Wed 24 Dec. North Face (12A) 121min Exciting historical adventure recounting the dangerous ascent of the Eiger in 1936 by two…

Mum & Dad

Mum & Dad

(3 stars)11 Dec 2008

(18) 85min If you appreciate black humour and have a strong stomach there’s much to be admired in Steven Sheil’s low budget British horror. Exploiting the ongoing trend for torture porn, it transports the sadomasochistic splatter-fest of the Hostel…

The Guard Post

The Guard Post

(3 stars)11 Dec 2008

(18) 120min (Cine Asia) South Korea certainly has a healthy film industry. As the American magazine Film Comment mused when the wave of their films first crashed on American shores – ‘is there actually more bilge than brine in the splash?…

The Children

The Children

(2 stars)27 Nov 2008

HORROR The current fad for evil kiddie chillers – see Ils (Them) from France, Eden Lake from the UK and While She Was Out from the US – continues with another British horror flick in which children do diabolical things to disbelieving adults. As the…

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