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Insidious - Leigh Whannell and James Wan interview
26 Apr 2011
Terrifying new ghost story Insidious from horror duo behind Saw
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…
Intruders
5 Jan 2012
Derivative, moderately engaging paranormal horror starring Clive Owen
(15) 110min Spanish director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo has never quite delivered on the promise of his clever debut feature Intacto. Retro chiller Intruders is cleverly constructed and suspenseful but fades when pitted against superior genre fare like…
The Awakening
15 Nov 2011
Superior British period ghost story sets a tone of creepy unease
There’s been a glut of cinematic ghost stories this year. The likes of Paranormal Activity 3 and Insidious often relied on jump scares and cheap parlour tricks, whereas The Awakening goes in the opposite direction letting the story unfold to reveal the…
Paranormal Activity 3
21 Oct 2011
Surprisingly effective third instalment of found footage suburban ghost story
(15) 84min Now Saw has relinquished it’s stranglehold on the multiplex each and every Halloween, Paranormal Activity has stepped up to fill the void. And it’s impressive that they’ve managed to mine this much back-story from the simplicity of the…
Shark Night 3D
6 Oct 2011
Dumb fun as big fish chow down on stereotypical college kids
(15) 91 min The avalanche of 3D releases may be slowing down but there’s still a few chuckles to be had with the format. Shark Night 3D has the flimsiest of plots as seven college kids head out for a weekend at a luxurious lake house in Louisiana…
Red State survey reveals loss of morals in UK
29 Sep 2011
A questionnaire promoting Kevin Smith's Republican-skewering horror flick has interesting results
Kevin Smith is well-known for baiting controversy - his apocalyptic comedy Dogma drew massive complaints for its depiction of a shallow Catholic church, while latest release Red State focuses on a group of serial-killing Christian fundamentalists.
The Woman
28 Sep 2011
Challenging horror from the minds of Lucky McKee and Jack Ketchum
(18) 98 min There has been a spate of interesting indie horror recently, films like Dead Girl, The Loved Ones and Red, White & Blue have brought a real intelligence to the genre. A challenging leftfield take on the idea of what is horror. The Woman…
Red State
14 Sep 2011
Uneven political horror-thriller from Kevin Smith
(18) 88min Outspoken filmmaker Kevin Smith hit a creative and commercial low with his last studio-backed production, the Bruce Willis-starring flop Cop Out, but before that film was even released Smith had shifted focus to this long-gestating…
Don't be Afraid of the Dark
13 Sep 2011
Unimaginitive reboot of 70s cult horror film
(15) 99min Looming large in the childhood memories of many US pop culture aficionados, the original Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark was a minor but effective 1973 TV movie in which Jim Hutton and Kim Darby played a couple menaced by demonic creatures in…
Profile: Melissa George
1 Sep 2011
Aussie actress Melissa George tells us all about her new film A Lonely Place to Die
Born 6 August, 1976, Perth, Australia. Background Yet another Aussie soap alumni done good, after starring as Angel in over 300 episodes of Home & Away. ‘I’m a very good quitter, I always quit a job at the right time,’ explains George. ‘I was…
Final Destination 5
24 Aug 2011
Horror franchise gets back on track with some suitably gory bloodshed
(15) 92 min In many ways the Final Destination series is the ultimate streamlined horror franchise, they have dispensed with a villain and it is death itself that stalks our victims. And FD 5 returns the glorious gory yucks to the screen after the…
A Lonely Place To Die
24 Aug 2011
Tense and riveting Brit-thriller set in Scottish Highlands
How far would you go to save a stranger? Would you risk your life? And your friends’ lives? It’s a question Alison (Melissa George) and her fellow climbers must answer after they stumble across a young girl (Holly Boyd) buried in a wooden box while…
The Skin I Live In (La Piel Que Habito)
19 Aug 2011
Almodovar's adaptation is measured, playful and spellbinding
(15) 120min The Skin I Live In has all the elements of a campy Vincent Price B-movie. There is a meddlesome scientist driven mad by grief, a grisly revenge plot and a hapless victim, not to mention multiple murder, kidnap and rape. In the hands of…
Kill List
19 Aug 2011
Genre-schizophrenic crime spree lacks clarity
(18) 95min Down Terrace director Ben Wheatley second feature is another tale of crime, skullduggery and mystery. Kill List is one of those movies that starts off in one genre (kitchen sink drama) and turns into another (horror). Robert Rodriguez…
DVD reviews: The Kingdom, Giallo, The Pack, Bloodrayne 3, Evil Rising and Lake Mungo
18 Jul 2011
Summer horror DVD round-up
Forget Hollywood – this month we embark on a European horror odyssey. First up, Lars von Trier's superlative haunted hospital drama The Kingdom (Second Sight ●●●●). Collecting both of his four-part Danish TV series into one boxed set for the first time…
Julia's Eyes
1 Jul 2011
A very well made chiller in the stalk ‘n’ slash tradition
(15) 112min In addition to directing visionary adult horror-fantasies (The Devil’s Backbone, Pan’s Labyrinth) and outstanding Hollywood blockbusters (Hellboy and its sequel), Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro is also carving a second career for…
DVD reviews: Amer, My Soul to Take, Season of the Witch, The Resident and more on DVD
24 Jun 2011
Horror DVD round-up
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
20 Jun 2011
Spanish black comedy/horror takes in clowns, circus life, love and madness
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)
17 Jun 2011
An interesting twist on slasher movie conventions from Israel
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
23 May 2011
Director turnes hometown into a post-apocalyptic wasteland
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…
Kaboom
23 May 2011
Cult director Gregg Araki returns to his B-movie roots with comedy-sci-fi-horror
(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
23 May 2011
Rebecca De Mornay stars in rare example of a horror remake done well
(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…
Stake Land
23 May 2011
Jim Mickle's post-apocalyptic vampire horror shows the monsters still have bite post-Twilight
(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…
Scream 4
26 Apr 2011
Fun, clever and thrilling revitalisation of Wes Craven and Kevin Williamson's horror franchise
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
15 Apr 2011
New horror from the creative team behind Saw, succeeds in getting under your skin
(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…
