Horror

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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 – ‘Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween’ is a scare-free sequel

09/11/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Ari Sandel, Caleel Harris, Certificate: PG, Chris Parnell, Fantasy, Goosebumps, Goosebumps 2, Horror, Jack Black, Jeremy Ray Taylor, Ken Jeong, Madison Iseman, Mick Wingert, October 2018, Rating: Poop, Wendi McLendon-Covey

The enjoyable family-friendly horror Goosebumps gets a bland and unimaginative follow-up with Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween.

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Blu-ray Review – John Carpenter’s ‘The Fog’ is creeping back in a 4K restoration

28/10/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Adrienne Barbeau, Blu-ray, Certificate: 15, Hal Holbrook, Horror, Jamie Lee Curtis, Janet Leigh, John Carpenter, Nancy Loomis, October 2018, Rating: Pop, The Fog, Tom Atkins

John Carpenter’s horror classic The Fog is back in UK cinemas in a new 4K restoration ahead of a new collector’s edition release on Blu-ray.

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LFF 2018 – Mandy

06/10/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment Andrea Riseborough, BFI London Film Festival, BFI London Film Festival 2018, Horror, LFF, Linus Roache, Mandy, Nicolas Cage, Panos Cosmatos, Thriller

Nicolas Cage stars as a madman on a bloody journey of revenge in the mad, psychedelic horror movie Mandy.

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Review – ‘Venom’ is a defiantly unique adventure into superhero madness

04/10/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Action, Certificate: 15, Horror, Jenny Slate, Michelle Lee, Michelle Williams, October 2018, Rating: Pop, Reid Scott, Riz Ahmed, Ruben Fleischer, Superhero, Tom Hardy, Venom, Woody Harrelson

Tom Hardy does not one, but two funny voices as he delivers one of the weirdest superhero movies in recent memory.

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Review – ‘The Little Stranger’ is an atmospheric tale of gothic dread

26/09/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Certificate: 12, Charlotte Rampling, Domhnall Gleeson, Drama, Horror, Lenny Abrahamson, Liv Hill, Mystery, Rating: Pop, Ruth Wilson, September 2018, The Little Stranger, Tipper Seifert-Cleveland, Will Poulter

Lenny Abrahamson swaps the tight confines of Room for a huge, gothic mansion in new movie The Little Stranger.

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Review – ‘The House With a Clock In Its Walls’ has just enough Eli Roth to scare your kids

24/09/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Cate Blanchett, Certificate: 12, Eli Roth, Fantasy, Horror, Jack Black, Kyle MacLachlan, Lorenza Izzo, Owen Vaccaro, Rating: Pop, Renée Elise Goldsberry, September 2018, Sunny Suljic, The House With a Clock In Its Walls

Gorehound Eli Roth goes family friendly for Jack Black-starring gothic fantasy The House With a Clock In Its Walls.

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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 Baby’ is an oddball horror that gets unexpectedly nasty

22/09/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 1973, 2018, Anjanette Comer, Blu-ray, Certificate: 15, David Mooney, Horror, Marianna Hill, Rating: Pop, Ruth Roman, September 2018, Suzanne Zenor, Ted Post, The Baby

As it arrives on UK Blu-ray in a new package from Arrow Video, 1973 horror movie The Baby remains an incredibly bizarre tale.

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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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Review – ‘The Nun’ is far too convent-ional to escape its jump scare habit

15/09/201817/09/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Bonnie Aarons, Certificate: 15, Corin Hardy, Demián Bichir, Horror, Jonas Bloquet, Rating: Poop, September 2018, Taissa Farmiga, The Conjuring

The Conjuring spin-off universe hits its nadir with The Nun, which fails to craft even a single, memorable scare – one fewer than its trailer.

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