Reviews
The First Purge Is Violently Topical [Review]
The Purge is a killer concept for a horror movie, but even the most optimistic pundit couldn’t have predicted just how quickly it would take off. We’ve had four movies in five years, with ...
Comic Review: Buffy Season 12: The Reckoning #1
Buffy the Vampire Slayer is back for its final comic book season. The end is bittersweet. While everything is clearly planned, it feels more like a cancellation, given that this new “season...
The Cop Baby Almost Lives Up to It’s Hilarious Premise [Cinepocalypse 2018 Review]
Buddy cop comedies are a staple of American media. From Starsky and Hutch, to Lethal Weapon the movies series, to Lethal Weapon the TV series where Clayne Crawford is being replaced by Seann William S...
Curtains is a Forgotten Slasher that Should be Rediscovered [Retrospective]
Curtains is very much a lost classic of the ‘80s. It is a bit bizarre and a little unorthodox for a slasher picture but it does still cling to many of the horror film tropes fans have come to k...
Tourist Trap is a Lost Classic of ’70s Horror Cinema [Retrospective]
When a group of friends experience a breakdown alongside the road, they wind up at a tourist attraction called Slausen’s Lost Oasis, which is also home to a sinister Wax Museum. The oasis used ...
Satan’s Slaves is a Must See! [Cinepocalypse 2018 Review]
The characters in bad horror films miss the easy opportunities to solve their problems. They stay the night in haunted houses on the anniversary of someone’s violent death when they damn well k...
Graphic Novel Review: The Beautiful Death is Depressing and Gorgeous
Mathieu Bablet’s graphic novel The Beautiful Death combines the desolation of Richard Matheson’s I Am Legend with the bleak pessimism of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. It starts foll...
The Endless will Entertain and Challenge You for Endless Viewings [Review]
Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead (interview) are big horror fans, and it shows in their third co-directed feature film, The Endless. They also star, playing brothers Justin and Aaron, who escaped what...
The Strangers: Prey at Night Takes the Franchise into Full on Slasher Territory
The Strangers: Prey at Night sees a family on a road trip stopping off for the night in a trailer park, only to find that they are being targeted by a trio of malevolent ‘st...