1+ week, 5+ day ago   (441+ words) By Dvaid Dent Four years after director James Nunn carted us all off to Mexico (although actually shot in Malta) for the so so predatory shenanigans of 2022’s Shark Bait, he now whisks us away to the Louisiana swamplands (ok…...

2+ day, 21+ hour ago   (201+ words) The latest anthology edited by the prolific Ellen Datlow is a mixed bag of short stories looking to ease us into the spooky season. As Datlow states in the opening, the themes of the stories aren’t just plucked from Halloween…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (328+ words) At a mere 22 years old, Alice Maio Mackay has, in the last ten years, directed fifteen shorts, features and items for TV; maths fans will have worked out that her CV amounts to one or two projects a year. Mackay’s…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (335+ words) Meet The Stranger in Paul Gerrard and Mike Clarke’s (A Light Through Coloured Glass, Semolina Pilchard) feature debut – a thrilling home invasion horror with a supernatural twist. Damien Ashley (Semolina Pilchard) brings a truly sinister performance to the screen, starring…...

4+ day, 4+ hour ago   (206+ words) Author Eric Larocca is back with his second novel in the Burnt Sparrow series, and this was a tough read. I don’t mean this in a bad way, but this was certainly a dark and depressing read. We follow Rupert…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (275+ words) Bloody Flicks When we first meet Alice (Lucy Lovegrove), a midwife by profession, she’s being let down lightly, being described as good at her job and committed to her patients, despite what she’s been through. “You just need time”, she’s…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (361+ words) Bloody Flicks The untimely death at 61 of director Justin Hardy means that Wrath of the Gods stands as his epitaph. It’s particularly poignant in that the film completes the ‘Wicker Man’ trilogy, started by his father, the late Robin Hardy…...

1+ week, 23+ hour ago   (361+ words) Bloody Flicks Steinmiller Jr and Lightbody’s first feature sees a group of musicians, ‘The Nunu’, who are ‘America’s #1 Party Band’, in a van on their way to play at a wedding. The various group members started off performing original songs,…...

1+ week, 22+ hour ago   (347+ words) Bloody Flicks Ben and Nathan McQuaid’s debut feature is a fabulously DIY sci fi comedy leaning heavily into Peter Jackson’s Bad Taste for its story of an attempted alien takeover. The ‘G’ of the title refers to Glasgow, home for…...

1+ week, 22+ hour ago   (389+ words) By Simon Thompson Director Ria Pavia and writers Dane Morck and Spencer Paysinger’s They Haunt Him is a breezy, charming family horror comedy which manages to successfully avoid the various saccharine cliches of that sub-genre thanks to having just enough…...