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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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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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Blu-ray Review – ‘Salvador’ is an unflinching look at political hypocrisy

15/09/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Blu-ray, Certificate: 18, Cindy Gibb, Elpidia Carrillo, James Woods, Jim Belushi, John Savage, Oliver Stone, Rating: Pop, Salvador, September 2018

Oliver Stone takes on the politics of Central America in the 1980s with the down and dirty war drama Salvador.

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DVD Review – ‘Hatchet 4: Victor Crowley’ brings the gore, but little else

04/09/201807/09/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Adam Green, Brian Quinn, Certificate: 18, Chase Williamson, Dave Sheridan, DVD, Felissa Rose, Hatchet, Hatchet 4: Victor Crowley, Horror, Kane Hodder, Katie Booth, Krystal Joy Brown, Laura Ortiz, Parry Shen, Rating: Poop, September 2018, Tiffany Shepis, Tony Todd

Kane Hodder returns as the terrifying bayou butcher in Hatchet 4: Victor Crowley, as Adam Green revives his slasher franchise.

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Blu-ray Review – ‘Incident in a Ghostland’ is tasteless and offensive, but just about works

03/09/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Anastasia Phillips, Blu-ray, Certificate: 18, Crystal Reed, Emilia Jones, Ghostland, Horror, Incident in a Ghostland, Kevin Power, Mylène Farmer, Pascal Laugier, Rating: Pop, Rob Archer, September 2018, Taylor Hickson

New French Extremity director Pascal Laugier returns to the horror fold with a film that only just survives its own nasty streak.

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Blu-ray Review – Paul Verhoeven’s ‘Flesh + Blood’ is a muddy, grim medieval adventure

03/08/201805/08/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 1985, 2018, Action, Adventure, August 2018, Certificate: 18, Fernando Hilbeck, Flesh + Blood, Jack Thompson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Paul Verhoeven, Rating: Pop, Ronald Lacey, Rutger Hauer, Susan Tyrrell, Tom Burlinson

Paul Verhoeven’s plague-riddled medieval adventure Flesh + Blood, starring Rutger Hauer and Jennifer Jason Leigh, is an uncomfortable watch.

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DVD Review – ‘Fanged Up’ sees Dapper Laughs try his luck with vampires

29/07/201829/07/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Certificate: 18, Christian James, Comedy, Daniel O'Reilly, Danielle Harold, Ewen MacIntosh, Fanged Up, Horror, July 2018, Lauren Socha, Rating: Poop, Steven Berkoff, Stu Bennett, Vas Blackwood

His offensive comedy turned him into a national bad boy, but can Daniel O’Reilly shed his Dapper Laughs persona for Fanged Up?

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Review – Al Qaeda doc ‘Path of Blood’ is chilling in its normality

12/07/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Certificate: 18, Documentary, Jonathan Hacker, July 2018, Path of Blood, Rating: Pop, Samuel West, Tom Hollander

Jonathan Hacker searched through hours of footage to create this unnerving portrait of some of Al Qaeda’s youngest members.

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Blu-ray Review – ‘The Boondock Saints’ is blood-soaked vigilantism with a darkly comic edge

11/07/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Action, Billy Connolly, Blu-ray, Carlo Rota, Certificate: 18, David Della Rocco, July 2018, Norman Reedus, Rating: Pop, Ron Jeremy, Sean Patrick Flanery, The Boondock Saints, Thriller, Troy Duffy, Willem Dafoe

Troy Duffy’s controversial vigilante thriller has lost none of its edge in the 20 years since it first exploded onto screens.

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DVD Review – ‘Dark Crimes’ sees Jim Carrey go dark, without much spark

10/07/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Agata Kulesza, Alexandros Avranas, Certificate: 18, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Crime, Dark Crimes, DVD, Jim Carrey, July 2018, Kati Outinen, Marton Csokas, Piotr Glowacki, Rating: Poop, Robert Wieckiewicz, Thriller, Vlad Ivanov

Dark Crimes is Jim Carrey as you’ve never seen him before, and never want to see him again.

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Blu-ray Review – ‘The Addiction’ turns vampirism into a compelling philosophical treatise

27/06/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Abel Ferrara, Annabella Sciorra, Blu-ray, Certificate: 18, Christopher Walken, Drama, Edie Falco, Fredro Starr, Horror, June 2018, Kathryn Erbe, Lili Taylor, Rating: Pop, The Addiction

Abel Ferrara takes vampirism in a very different direction, through the lens of Lili Taylor’s terrific performance, in The Addiction.

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