Video Nasty 39: Zombi 2
A New York couple (Ian McCulloch and Tisa (sister of Mia) Farrow) head to the Caribbean to explore a voodoo curse that causes the dead to rise, in this 1979 […]
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After a freak bus accident kills all her classmates, surviving high school girl Mitsuko (Reina Triendl) goes round and round a series of alternate realities, in this 2015 Japanese sci-fi/horror […]
Phantom of the Opera (2004)
Emmy Rossum (Shameless) and Gerard Butler (talentless) star in this 2004 adaptation of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical that has been running on the West End since 1986. After watching […]
Chemical Wedding
Written by Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson, this 2008 sci-fi/horror movie sees a Cambridge professor (Simon Callow) don a virtual reality spacesuit and go Emeritus Psycho when he comes back as […]
The Final Destination
The fourth entry in New Line Cinema’s health and safety lecture series opens with a pile-up at a stock car race that foreshadows the car crash to come. After scaling […]
Nosferatu the Vampyre
Anyone who saw Nosferatu and thought “this would be better in colour and with talking” should seek out this 1979 remake and get their head examined. Werner Herzog’s 1979 revamp […]
Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror
Happy-go-lucky estate agent Hutter (definitely not Harker for legal reasons) is sent to Transylvania in this unauthorised Dracula adaptation from 1922. Changing the names and moving the bloodsucking action from Whitby to […]
Cure
An amnesiac (Masato Hagiwara) uses a cigarette lighter to hypnotise people in this Japanese thriller they should have called Silence of the Lambert & Butler. The 1997 neo-noir has shades of Se7en […]
Dark Star
Kubrick meets Americana in John Carpenter’s first film, written by Alien scribe Dan O’Bannon, about a crew scouting colonisable planets in the 22nd century. If 2001: A Space Odyssey was […]
Collateral
Fare meters meet 9mms in Michael Mann’s 2004 action movie about a Los Angeles cabbie (Jamie Foxx) who unknowingly picks up a hitman (Tom Cruise). Along with films like Panic […]
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