Horror

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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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DVD & Blu-ray Featured Reviews 

Blu-ray Review – ‘Dave Made a Maze’ collapses like its made of cardboard

27/01/2019 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2019, Adam Busch, Adventure, Bill Watterson, Certificate: 15, Comedy, Dave Made a Maze, Fantasy, Frank Caeti, Horror, James Urbaniak, January 2019, John Hennigan, Meera Rohit Kumbhani, Nick Thune, Rating: Poop, Stephanie Allynne

Fantasy-comedy Dave Made a Maze is a strange genre hybrid that never quite lives up to its visual invention and clever central concept.

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Review – ‘Anna and the Apocalypse’ is your new favourite blood-soaked Christmas classic

21/12/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Anna and the Apocalypse, Ben Wiggins, Certificate: 15, Christmas, Christopher Leveaux, Ella Hunt, Horror, John McPhail, Malcolm Cumming, Mark Benton, Marli Siu, Musical, November 2018, Paul Kaye, Rating: Pop, Sarah Swire

If a Scottish zombie musical set at Christmas is right up your street, Anna and the Apocalypse is the only film that can meet your needs.

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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 – ‘Slaughterhouse Rulez’ skewers boarding school snobbery, but has little horror edge

20/11/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Asa Butterfield, Certificate: 15, Comedy, Crispian Mills, Finn Cole, Hermione Corfield, Horror, Jo Hartley, Margot Robbie, Michael Sheen, Nick Frost, October 2018, Rating: Poop, Simon Pegg, Slaughterhouse Rulez, Tom Rhys-Harries

Simon Pegg and Nick Frost are the producers behind Slaughterhouse Rulez, which is a below par horror-comedy.

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Review – ‘Possum’ owes a debt to cult British horror and sad landscapes

20/11/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Alun Armstrong, Certificate: 15, Horror, Matthew Holness, October 2018, Possum, Rating: Pop, Sean Harris

Matthew Holness swaps comedy for bleak British horror with Possum, in which a puppeteer deals with trauma in windswept East Anglia.

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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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