Don’t Look Now
First released in 1973 to give an entire generation a phobia of red raincoats, Don’t Look Now is restored in all its squirmy, permy glory. Based on Daphne du Maurier’s short […]
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FrightFest 20: A Good Woman Is Hard to Find
It’s grim up north(ern Ireland) in Abner Pastoll’s thriller about young widowed mother Sarah (Sarah Bolger) whose home is invaded by a drug dealer (Andrew Simpson). This Belgian-Northern Irish co-production […]
FrightFest 20: Tales From the Lodge
A group of friends gather in the English countryside to scatter their friend’s ashes in horror anthology Tales From the Lodge. Writer/director Abigail Blackmore won this year’s Screen International Genre […]
FrightFest 20: The Black String
Malcolm in the Middle has a diddle and ends up riddled in this new chiller soon available at Lidl. Probably. After an advert for a dating service appears to address […]
FrightFest 20: Rabid (2019)
Today we go from rabbits to Rabid with the Soska Sisters’ remake of David Cronenberg’s classic armpit horror. “Why do we keep remaking old trends?” asks the self-referential opening line, […]
FrightFest 20: Satanic Panic
Welcome to the first of 5 reviews from FrightFest 2019, a wonderful horror festival and unofficial singles convention. Described by its director Chelsea Stardust as a “punk rock satanic Wizard […]
From Beyond
The team behind 1985’s Re-Animator reassemble themselves a year later for another slimy helping of H. P. Lovecraft. Jeffrey Combs plays another mad scientist, this time trying to expand perception […]
Quiz Call: Population 436
Here’s another ‘film with numbers in the title‘ that you’d likely only guess by shouting random numbers down the phone. Population 436 is a classic Quiz Call answer in that […]
Quiz Call: 976-EVIL
Category is: ‘Films with numbers in the title’ – ironic that a Quiz Call answer would be a film about a cursed phone line. Freddy Krueger himself (Robert Englund) directs […]
Panorama – Is Labour Anti-Semitic?
The BBC broadcast an exposé of antisemitism in the Labour Party last week, much to the chagrin of party spokesman Owen Jones who helpfully criticised the camerawork, likening it to […]
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