What a shame this has been called ‘Freaks Vs The Reich’ here in the UK (it’s called “Freaks Out” elsewhere, which I think is a much better title), because you immediately think of some dire sci-fi channel film that has terrible special effects and a stupid story, when in fact you’d be missing out on […]
4K UHD: Carrie (1976)Carrie White (Sissy Spacek) is a shy 16 year old girl who lives with her ‘eccentric’ religiously obsessed mother in a small American town. Carrie is bullied by her contemporaries, mainly because of her annoyingly odd mother Margaret (Piper Laurie), wild haired with a mad-but-sexy-vibe, who turns up at her ‘friends’ houses […]
4K/Blu-ray Dual Edition Box set: High Tension (2003) High Tension (also known as Switchblade Romance) directed by Alexandre Aja was one of the first films of ‘French extremity’ (most films by Aja and Gasper Noe). It tells the gory story of Marie (Cécile de France) and Alex (Maiwenn, the big blue opera singer in the Fifth Element), who on […]
After watching all the films in the newest Arrow western genre box set, I’m not going to go through each film and talk about the plot etc, but I have to admit that churning out basically what Arrow have concisely written on their website seems…daft. So: In Paolo Bianchini’s I Want Him Dead (1968), American […]
Well, this is a stonker from Arrow! A box set to end all boxsets for Chucky fans. Now we (as in horror film fans) all know the Don Mancini 1988 film ‘Child’s Play’ telling the story of serial killer Charles Lee Ray, who after being fatally shot in a toy store transfers his soul into […]
(Tina) There are 2 films that I’ve always dreaded having to write about; Blade Runner and Hellraiser. The reason I’m adverse to discussing these particular films is because they have such a deep emotional meaning to me that I am incapable of being objective about either of them, as I regard them both equally as films elevated above […]
Blu-ray: Memento (2000)Based on the short story by his brother Jonathan Nolan, Director Christopher Nolan kind of broke the mould and gave a whole new genre of film with Memento.It tells the story of Leonard Shelby, who we find out as the story progresses is a man who suffers from anterograde amnesia – short-term memory loss […]
Blu-ray: Chopper (2000)First time director Andrew Dominik, (who later went on to direct The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford), tells some of the Mark “Chopper” Read story. Dipping in an out of his life, including some bits, and ignoring others, we get a sort of ‘encapsulated’ version of this most singular […]
It’s 1945, and Grace Stewart (Nicole Kidman) lives in a huge, isolated house on Jersey with her 2 children Ann and Nicholas who she keeps locked away as they’re ‘Photosensitive’. One day 3 people turn up as servants, it seems that Grace has advertised, and as if by magic they appear. Their dress is antiquated […]
I’ve got a complicated relationship with Adrian Edmondson. Quite a sweeping statement, as I think he’s be surprised to hear he was having any sort of relationship with me. But alas yes, for I have been in love with him since the age of 17. While Rik (Mayall his ‘comedy partner’) was the brash, sexy, […]
