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VOD Review – ‘Videoman’ is a tired giallo homage with scarce thrills

24/02/2019 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2019, Carolin Stoltz, Certificate: 18, February 2019, Horror, Kristian A Söderström, Lena Nilsson, Morgan Alling, Stefan Sauk, Thriller, Victor von Schirach, Videoman, VOD

Swedish thriller Videoman plays as an homage to giallo horror and the world of obscure VHS collectors, but it misses the mark.

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Review – Lars von Trier shows us his rotten soul in ‘The House That Jack Built’

23/12/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Bruno Ganz, Certificate: 18, David Bailie, December 2018, Drama, Jeremy Davies, Lars von Trier, Matt Dillon, Rating: Poop, Riley Keough, Siobhan Fallon Hogan, Sofie Gråbøl, The House That Jack Built, Thriller, Uma Thurman

Cinema’s top provocateur Lars von Trier delivers something very personal with the distasteful serial killer epic The House That Jack Built.

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Review – Funhouse horror ‘Hell Fest’ embraces hack-and-slash silliness

12/12/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Amy Forsyth, Bex Taylor-Klaus, Certificate: 18, Christian James, Gregory Plotkin, Hell Fest, Horror, Matt Mercurio, November 2018, Rating: Pop, Reign Edwards, Roby Attal, Tony Todd

Horror legend Tony Todd cameos in Hell Fest, which is the very definition of a crowd-pleasing Halloween spookfest.

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Review – Nazi zombies run riot amid bonkers, visceral splatter in ‘Overlord’

09/12/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Certificate: 18, Dominic Applewhite, Horror, JJ Abrams, John Magaro, Jovan Adepo, Julius Avery, Mathilde Ollivier, November 2018, Overlord, Pilou Asbæk, Rating: Pop, War, Wyatt Russell

JJ Abrams produces something that isn’t a Cloverfield sequel with Overlord, in which American soldiers are pitted against Nazi zombies.

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VOD Review – Festive bloodbath ‘Secret Santa’ is a wild Christmas ride

30/11/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, A Leslie Kies, Adam Marcus, Certificate: 18, Christmas, Debra Sullivan, December 2018, Drew Lynch, Horror, John Gilbert, Michael Rady, Michelle Renee Allaire, Nathan Hedrick, Pat Destro, Rating: Pop, Ryan Leigh Seaton, Secret Santa, VOD

A group of hugely committed actors swings for the fences, and each other’s necks, in the unhinged Christmas horror Secret Santa.

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Review – ‘Halloween’ has slasher flair, but lacks proper horror

09/11/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Andi Matichak, Certificate: 18, David Gordon Green, Halloween, Haluk Bilginer, Horror, James Jude Courtney, Jamie Lee Curtis, Judy Greer, Nick Castle, October 2018, Rating: Pop, Will Patton

David Gordon Green takes on iconic slasher villain Michael Myers and Halloween, with the blessing of original creator John Carpenter.

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Review – Mark Wahlberg is even more smug than usual in ‘Mile 22’

24/09/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Action, Carlo Alban, Certificate: 18, Iko Uwais, John Malkovich, Lauren Cohan, Mark Wahlberg, Mile 22, Peter Berg, Poorna Jagannathan, Rating: Poop, Ronda Rousey, September 2018, Thriller

Mark Wahlberg and Peter Berg join forces again, but deliver a thriller devoid of thrills with Mile 22.

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Review – Music doc ‘Matangi/Maya/MIA’ untangles a complex star

24/09/201825/09/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Certificate: 18, Documentary, Matangi/Maya/MIA, MIA, Rating: Pop, September 2018, Steve Loveridge

British-Tamil pop star MIA is at the centre of documentary Matangi/Maya/MIA, which traces her musical career and political activism.

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Review – ‘Climax’ is Gaspar Noé’s dark descent into dance depravity

23/09/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Certificate: 18, Claude Gajan Maull, Climax, Gaspar Noé, Giselle Palmer, Horror, Kiddy Smile, Rating: Pop, Romain Guillermic, September 2018, Sofia Boutella, Souheila Yacoub

Noé allows grotesque chaos to unfold in an LSD-spiked nightmare that confines an intoxicated dance troupe to a grubby hall.

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Blu-ray Review – ‘The Pyjama Girl Case’ takes the giallo Down Under

16/09/201816/09/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Blu-ray, Certificate: 18, Dalila Di Lazzaro, Flavio Mogherini, Giallo, Howard Ross, Michele Placido, Ramiro Oliveros, Rating: Poop, Ray Milland, Rod Mullinar, September 2018, The Pyjama Girl Case, Thriller

The giallo moves across to Australia for the 1970s thriller The Pyjama Girl Case, which tells the true story of a mysterious murder.

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DVD & Blu-ray Reviews 

Blu-ray Review – ‘Horrors of Malformed Men’ is clumsy, but knows how to chill to the bone

15/09/201818/09/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Blu-ray, Certificate: 18, Horror, Horrors of Malformed Men, Michiko Kobata, Minoru Ôki, Rating: Pop, September 2018, Tatsumi Hijikata, Teruko Yumi, Teruo Ishii, Teruo Yoshida, Yukie Kagawa

Teruo Ishii’s adaptation of a Japanese mystery story is a frequently disturbing, occasionally frustrating chiller.

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