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Amer, My Soul to Take, Season of the Witch, The Resident and more on DVD

DVD reviews: Amer, My Soul to Take, Season of the Witch, The Resident and more on DVD

Horror DVD round-up

24 Jun 2011

Time for another dastardly delve into the horror DVD pile. We’ll start on a highnote. Amer (Anchor Bay) is actually French but is a studied homage to Italian 70s gialo filmmaking, more concerned with sound, colour, style and mood than coherent…

The Last Circus

The Last Circus

Spanish black comedy/horror takes in clowns, circus life, love and madness

(4 stars)20 Jun 2011

The latest film from writer/director Alex de la Iglesia is almost unclassifiable, a love story, a black comedy and horror all apply and as fans of his Accion Mutante (1992) will know it’s this glorious mess of ideas and themes that makes for such a…

Rabies (Kalevat)

Rabies (Kalevat)

An interesting twist on slasher movie conventions from Israel

(3 stars)17 Jun 2011

The problem with slasher films is that they perhaps have the most rigid rules in cinema. It’s so easy to fall into the standard clichés as set out by Halloween and Friday the 13th. Not that it means you can’t make a fun, entertaining film within these…

Profile: Jim Mickle, director of vampire horror Stake Land

Profile: Jim Mickle, director of vampire horror Stake Land

Director turnes hometown into a post-apocalyptic wasteland

23 May 2011

Name Jim Mickle Born Pottstown, Pennsylvania, 1977 Background After graduating from New York University’s filmmaking programme, Mickle worked in the camera department for features Transamerica, Shortbus and Pride and Glory. The experience gave him…

Cult director Gregg Araki returns to his B-movie roots with comedy-sci-fi-horror Kaboom

Kaboom

Cult director Gregg Araki returns to his B-movie roots with comedy-sci-fi-horror

(4 stars)23 May 2011

(15) 86min Cult director Gregg Araki (The Living End, Mysterious Skin), one of the leading figures in the New Queer Cinema of the 90s, returns to the style of his earlier work for Kaboom, a gloriously trashy, insane ride of a film that wears its…

Mother's Day, starring Rebecca De Mornay, is a rare example of a horror remake done well

Mother's Day

Rebecca De Mornay stars in rare example of a horror remake done well

(4 stars)23 May 2011

(18) 112min Following on the heels of bloodless remakes of cherished 1980s slasher flicks like The Stepfather and Prom Night, Mother’s Day is a nastier but more accomplished beast. This home invasion drama is a reboot of the 1980 Troma original, and…

Jim Mickle's post-apocalyptic vampire horror Stake Land shows the monsters still have bite post-Twilight

Stake Land

Jim Mickle's post-apocalyptic vampire horror shows the monsters still have bite post-Twilight

(4 stars)23 May 2011

(15) 98min Moving on from his impressive 2006 horror debut Mulberry Street, writer/director Jim Mickle scores a breakout hit with Stake Land, which fuses the post-apocalyptic journey scenario familiar from The Road or Zombieland with the current…

Insidious - Leigh Whannell and James Wan interview

Insidious - Leigh Whannell and James Wan interview

Terrifying new ghost story Insidious from horror duo behind Saw

26 Apr 2011

They gave the world Saw, followed it up with Dead Silence and now writer director team Leigh Whannell and James Wan are back with the terrifying ghost story that is Insidious. So what is Insidious about? Leigh Whannell: The film is our version of…

Scream 4

Scream 4

Fun, clever and thrilling revitalisation of Wes Craven and Kevin Williamson's horror franchise

(3 stars)26 Apr 2011

Back in 1996 horror was in the doldrums, the glory days and box-office clout of Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street and Halloween were a thing of the past. Big budgets and horror were distant relatives. Then along came Scream. From the tense…

Insidious, the new horror from the creative team behind Saw, succeeds in getting under your skin

Insidious

New horror from the creative team behind Saw, succeeds in getting under your skin

(4 stars)15 Apr 2011

(15) 102 min There’s a real art in making a good scary movie – a film that sends shivers down your spine – and Insidious gets it just right. Well, almost. Perhaps not something you’d expect from the writer director team of Leigh Whanell and James Wan…

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