1970s American, Three African American siblings on the run from the police take refuge at an abandoned Tennessee Ranch, unaware their hideout is on the hunting grounds of a cannibalistic Ku Klux Klan cult…Trapped and tortured, the Clarence, Angela and Brandon must fight tooth and nail to escape alive and take down the bloodthirsty Klan…
Over the years I have often wondered why there weren’t more documentaries about the stuntmen and stuntwomen that performed such death defying feats in hundreds of the movies that ive seen over the years. Yes now and again we get a small featurette on a DVD or a bluray taking us behind the scenes of…
As part of a ‘rewatch’ series that I am going through, I decided to revisit a film I hadnt seen for a few years. The Crew, Directed by Adrian Vitoria ‘Age of Heroes’ So i ventured into my DVD ‘vault’ and popped the disc into my player and revisted 2008’s The Crew. Set in Liverpool,…
Saw (2004) easily sits on my list of Top 20 thrillers of all time,and even though I havent seen all of the sequels that have come out since the first film, I thought that I would this week check out the latest film in the Saw ‘universe’ Spiral:From The Book of Saw, directed by Darren…
As part of my British film rewatching ‘home festival’ I unwrapped the DVD that I bought several years ago of The War Zone, directed by Tim Roth and based on the novel by Alexander Stuart . Its a film that I have seen only once (well now twice) having first watched the film on VHS…
Heavily press-attacked upon its release in the year 2000 for its apparent pack of quality in all areas, Honest was one of the films I havent seen for many years (since the year 2000 actually) but wanted to revisit as part of my ‘revisiting’ series of reviews and views that i have been working my…
I suppose there’s a large amount of film fans that only know Daniel Craig from his role as the super spy , but yes ther was a time when James Bond want played by Daniel Craig and Daniel did put some films out that weren’t the best (The Invasion) one example) This guy has some…
One of the films opening lines ‘What has prison taught you Billy?’ ‘Don’t get caught’ replies Billy (played by Jude Law) That simple exchange sums up the feeling of Paul WS Andersons directorial debut Shopping, which I remember blasting onto the screens in 1994 from Film Four International and Polygram. Whilst the film does have…
Pete (played by Rhys Ifans) inherits a company and his best friend, the ambitious accountant (played by Joseph Fiennes ) makes a deal with a Russian mafia boss (played ty Steven Berkoff) . The Russian wants hard currency and grand-kids but kills his daughter’s lovers. and thats about as much of the main plot that…
After recently having watched actor Chloe Traicos in the wonderfully sweet and heart warming film Introducing Jodea, I decided to to and check out some of her other week and came across the film Devils Cove from 2018. Written, Produced, and co Starring Chloe, Devils Cove is directed by Erik Lundmark and takes us into…
Two of Britain’s most notorious brothers The Krays were taken on by another famous pair of siblings The Kemps in Peter Medak’s big screen gangster biopic. Originally released in 1990 the film has gone on to gain cult status and for me sits along since other crime classics such as Get Carter, and The Long…
A mother’s reality erodes around her as she struggles to fathom the entangled web of her daughter’s separation anxiety brought on by parasitic creatures within a stuffed bear in The Nest, a super creepy atmospheric film that will trigger your ‘oh this is going to be strange’ alarms straight from the offset. Written by Jennifer…
One of my favourite short films of recent years is the creature feature film ‘Dead Air’ which allowed me to join the wonderful girl band Monster Kitten as they enjoy a plane ride during one of their recent tours. But all was not well on that plane as we soon learned as its not just…
A film I hadn’t heard of initially until the press release for the blu ray release dropped into my email inbox. and having now seen the film, I cant urge you enough to check out Australian horror Lake Mungo which now has its first ever UK Blu-ray release as a stunning Limited Edition Box set…
Andy (played by Vincent Van Horn) moves to LA after a romantic breakup and following a bar room encounter with Sam (played by Christine Ko) takes a drive home by an Uber style driver. Roger (played by Michael Lee Joplin), the driver then encounters Andy the following day and strike up a friendship, which we…
Another gem in this years selection at May Madness, by Grimmfest. A Perfect Enemy tell the story of successful architect Jeremiasz Angust ( played by Tomasz Kot ) who’s car is approached on his return trip to Paris Airport by a overly chatty girl called Texel Textor ( brilliantly played by Athena Strates). To say…
From filmmaker Chino Moya, comes Undergods, an otherworldly journey through a Europe in decline – made up of a collection of darkly humorous, fantasy tales about ill-fated characters and doomed fortune. I do love these types of movies with its very bleak and colour saturated cinematography which helps build up the atmosphere along with the…
Joel (played by Evan Marsh ) an eager film critic for a national horror magazine, finds himself unwittingly trapped in a self-help group for serial killers. With no other choice, Joel attempts to blend in or risk becoming the next victim. Evan Marsh plays the role of Joel perfectly as he nervously stumbles from sentence…
A small town video game store clerk must go from zero to hero after accidentally unleashing the forces of evil from a cursed Colecovision (you can Google Colecovision, yes it was a thing) video game cartridge in this fantastically nostalgic and fun film from directors Scott Conditt, Jeremy Tremp which is littered with so many fun…
From Writer/Director Jeffrey Reddick comes Don’t Look Back (also known as Good Samaritan) a wonderfully crafted thriller that takes us on the journey of Caitlin Kramer who whilst dealing with the after effects of losing her Father in a house invasion, is out in the park one day and witnesses (along with others) a man…
If there is one thing I didn’t like in this documentary its a short sequence at the start of the film where many people all dressed in Star Wars cosplay are all asked if they have heard of Alan Ladd Jr, they all reply ‘no’ Which drove me nuts. Why did it drive me nuts?…
Clapboard Jungle, a journey following five years in the life and career of independent filmmaker,Justin McConnell as he takes us on a whirlwind home movie of sorts with his struggle to get projects from the page, to the screens. I was totally engaged from moment one of this feature length doc which not only follows…
The IMDB summary of Red River Road goes as follows’ A family of four isolating against a pandemic virus that spreads through the internet and robs you of your ability to perceive reality–often violently–begins to unravel when they suspect one or all of them might be infected. The real life story of this films production…
Home is where we are safe, its our comfort zone, A new home can be a new chapter in our lives and new beginnings are good, right? Well for most I think yes, but for Knox and Tracey (played by Todd Grinnell and Mena Suvari) this isnt the new chapter they were hoping for. When…
There was a time when Eddie Murphy was on top of his game. With such a great run from 48 Hours to Boomerang, and even suffering a few misteps along the way ( Life, Doctor Dolittle 2, Pluto Nash) Eddie still gave us fun films to watch even after those slight clunkers. Then with 2019s…
Mandy,an overworked nurse finances her drug habit by stealing and selling body organs to a local trafficker and when a simple steal n deliver of a kidney goes wrong, Mandy is in for an even tougher shift than normal in this wonderfully dark comedy horror from writer director Brea Grant. Filled with enough blood and…
Muscle is certainly not the type of film I thought I was getting, and its all the better for it. There are a couple of things I didn’t know about Muscle before watching. I didn’t know what the film was about, and I didn’t know that it was written and directed by Gerard Johnson who…
When a space shuttle crew finds a mysterious spacecraft containing three human-looking creatures in a state of suspended animation, they bring them back to Earth for further investigation. It’s only then that scientists discover that they are in fact a race of space vampires that feed off people’s life-force rather than their blood. So when…
Several years ago, I was fortunate enough to meet up with Mr Trevor Hayward, a UK filmmaker who was in the process of putting together ‘Witch’ a story shrouded in secrecy and whom even the people involved in the film, knew very little about. this masterstroke of Trevor not only kept story elements from leaking…
Directed by Scott Jeffrey (Cupid, The Bad Nun) , and Rebecca Matthews (Pet Graveyard, Hellkat) and written by Shannon Holiday (Dirty Work, Amityville Cornfield) . Cam Girls is the latest film released by Left Films and Proportion Productions and takes us into the world of Cam Girls and is now available on video on demand.…
There have been several movies that ventured into the world of ‘The Krays’ over the years and helped build up the larger picture of Britain’s most notorious gangsters Ronnie and Reggie Kray. The first I recall is the 1990 Peter Medak directed film starring Martin and Gary Kemp as the Brothers. Since then there has…
For film fans out there I bet there are a short list of names that get you all excited when they announce they have a new film coming over the horizon. For me it used to be Spielberg, Cameron, Scorsese and still on my list is Oliver Stone. Other names that I see people going…
I don’t remember the first time I saw The Godfather (1972), I suspect it would have been on a TV broadcast in either the late 70s or early 80s. It was certainly before I saw Al Pacino play a different type of gangster in 1983’s Scarface. I do remember when I first saw The Godfather,…
With the Halloween season a few weeks behind us now (and lots of horror fans not too happy about that fact) There are still some amazing treats of the scary kind in store for us this festive season and one of them is pure horrific yuletide joy (with buckets of blood thrown in for good…
I remember when running my video store in the 90s and 2000s’ Versus came in the wake of The Matrix. A Japanese action film which perfectly blends the popular genres of gangster films, sword fighting films, as well as undead movies with a hint of The Matrix. the film rented pretty well and at the…
Stuck for something to watch last night (im sure you have those indecisive moods sometimes) I ventured into my favourite streaming platform Shudder and decided to check out Queen of Earth, a film by Alex Ross Perry. Now I hadn’t heard of the film before it appeared in a much welcomed Shudder newsletter, letting me…
My relationship with George A Romeros second film in the ‘Undead’ series goes back to around the late 1990s when I, as a 20something year eventually plucked up the cinematic courage to watch his 1968 classic, Night Of The Living Dead, after many years of being too nervous about what was Im sure a horrific…
In one of history’s most famous cases of body-snatching, two men steal the corpse of the revered film actor Sir Charles Chaplin from a cemetery in the Swiss village of Corsier-sur-Vevey, located in the hills above Lake Geneva, near Lausanne, Switzerland, on March 1, 1978. Now in this alternate reality but still based on the real life true story the latest…
In a town acclaimed for honouring ancient folklore, Willow (played by Lamissah La Shontae ) finds herself vulnerable to a sinister mythological farmer after failing to contribute to the annual tradition of berry collecting. From there…..well Im not saying, watch the film for yourself when you can. Whilst the film itself is only around 3…
Georges Méliès was not just a pioneer of early cinema, he was central to what we know as film today. An illustrator, magician, filmmaker, and inventor he paved the way for animation and multi-media filmmaking. Of all of Méliès films, his boldest and most well known is certainlythe 13 minute film A Trip to the…
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