Apocalypse Z (2013) (also known as Zombie Massacre) makes Brad Pitt’s mega-buster World War Z (2013), which tried manfully to transpose the walking dead to the [...]

In the late 1970’s and early 80’s glossy Hollywood horror, though having its fair share of big budget shocks, frequently favoured a subtler, psychological [...]

Almost forty years after its first release, Shivers is still difficult to watch. Even for a director as renowned for his bizarre visions as David Cronenberg, his first big [...]

Nowhere to Go, starring George Nader, Maggie Smith and Bernard Lee, and directed by the legendary Seth Holt, is a film which still packs a punch almost sixty years after its [...]

The essence of some films is captured perfectly in their name. Take Rough Cut, the pseudo documentary about the making of a fictional horror movie called ‘Hiker [...]

Patema Inverted – the animated feature written and directed by Yasuhiro Yoshiura and featuring the voice talents of Yukiyo Fujii, Nobuhiko Okamoto, Shinya Fukumatsu and [...]

Oriental action / martial arts films never fail to surprise. Take for instance the visually stunning, high kicking Vietnamese period adventure The Lady Assassin. In this [...]

Is it drama? Is it sci-fi? Or is it just a mystery? Watching writer / director Mike Cahill’s film I Origins, it’s difficult to decipher exactly what it’s [...]

Occasionally a film emerges from the melee of otherwise nondescript cinema releases, which stays in the mind long after it is first seen. That it is often an independently [...]

Trollhunter is a rare thing – a modern horror film which eschews visceral gore for subtlety and a genuine air of unease. Starring Otto Jespersen, Glen Erland Tosterud, [...]

On the face of it Attack of the Werewolves (also known as Game of Werewolves or by its original name, Lobos de Arga), the Spanish frightener which impressed audiences and [...]

Not all fans of Dwayne Johnson (and yes, there are some of us out there) do not necessarily appreciate him for his acting skills, which is just as well as there are few of [...]