Dawn of the Dead
George A. Romero and Italian superfan/collaborator Dario Argento go bigger, bloodier and bitier in this 1978 sequel to Romero’s epochal apocalypse picture. Dawn of the Dead comes 10 years after […]
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A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest meets Stephen King’s It in this 1987 threequel, when the Elm Street kids wind up in a hospital for the criminally underslept. After being […]
Night of the Living Dead
The corpses of Pennsylvania rise from the dead and eat people in George A. Romero‘s cannibalistic classic. Let’s call it The Pittsburgh Body-Stealers. Probably the most important horror movie of […]
A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge
A new family moves into 1428 Elm Street after getting a cheap deal on the hot (or very recently on fire) property, only to find its electrical appliances and household […]
Sorority Row
Sorority Row joined a slew of slasher remakes circa 2009 to form whatever’s the opposite of a genre revival. Let’s call it the noughties slasher burial. A mangled mixer of […]
Evil Dead (2013)
Apparently forgetting he already remade The Evil Dead to perfection in Evil Dead II, Sam Raimi flogs the undead horse in this humourless husk from 2013. In Fede Álvarez‘s directorial […]
Alien
Few films are as influential and more pointless to review than Alien; by this point trying to say anything new about the 1979 classic is the critical equivalent of screaming […]
13 Assassins
It is testament to the grandeur of Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai that even its remakes get remakes (there are two Magnificent Sevens and two 13 Assassins) while the original title […]
Dungeons & Dragons (2000)
This week sees the release of a new Dungeons & Dragons film, but not wanting to be caught off guard, we roll back to the original D&D movie from 2000. […]
Saint Maud
A disturbed carer (Morfydd Clark) sets out to save her dying patient’s (Jennifer Ehle) soul in the British horror flick they should have called Evil Med. Not so much a […]
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