When Lee Miller (Ryan Simpkins) returns home after being expelled from school she finds her actor dad Tony (Russell Crowe) has got a plum role in a new horror movi, when the intended star suffers a mysterious accident while rehearsing the role of an exorcist priest attempting to drive a demon from a teenage girl... Continue Reading →
Jumping on the reboot/sequel/prequel bandwagon we have Arkasha Stevenson's The First Omen a prelude to Richard Donner's 1974 antichrist horror The Omen. In 1971 Novice nun Margaret (Nell Tiger Free) is brought to Rome by jolly middle class Cardinal Lawrence (Bill Nighy) to take her vows. while she awaits this auspicious day she takes on... Continue Reading →
So it's Halloween 1977 and US TV chat show host Jack Delroy (David Dastmalchion) is locked into a ratings battle with Johnny Carson. Desperate to get those viewing figures up and win loads of lovely new advertising lolly ruthless producer Leo Fiske (Josh Quong Tart) decides that in keeping with the spooky season the program... Continue Reading →
The original Sammo Hung produced Hopping Vampire movie, Mr Vampire was released in 1985 with a jolly nice Eureka Classics UK Blu-ray issue in 2022. Now Eureka have followed up their bouncing baby with a Hopping Mad a collection of all four official sequels in stunning new restored versions on Blu. So lets leap in... Continue Reading →
Loosely based upon HP Lovecraft's short story The Thing on the Doorstep, Joe Lynch's Suitable Flesh stars Heather Graham as psychologist Dr. Elizabeth Derby. Now pay attention because things are about to get very complicated. Derby confesses to her psychologist pal Dr. Daniella Upton (Barbara Crampton) from her padded cell in the lunatic asylum, that... Continue Reading →
When Heung Wing (Cantopop star Anson Kong from the boy band Mirror) hears that his mother (Bai Ling) is seriously ill after a suicide attempt he packs his bags and heads back to Hong Kong from his new life in Canada. Arriving back home he discovers that not only is she comatose but is also... Continue Reading →
When he was four years old writer/director Bishal Dutta's family left India to seek a new life in North America. Getting an insight into his new country's culture from watching late night horror movies on TV led to Dutta gestating the idea for It Lives Inside where the myths and legends from his own supernatural... Continue Reading →
I do feel sorry for sexually active American youth, not only do they have to worry about angry gun toting parents, pregnancy and STDs but also a whole host of machete wielding psychopaths and supernatural entities who just don't approve at all of a bit of premarital nookie, In the case of David Robert Mitchell's... Continue Reading →
Poor old Lizzie Borden, despite being acquitted of the 1892 murder of her father and mother in the town of Fall River, Massachusetts to this day she remains perhaps the most infamous of America's killers, a Gothic icon to rival our home grown real life monsters like Burke and Hare or Jack the Ripper. Jerren... Continue Reading →
Said to be one of stephen King's favourite scary movies, I somehow, over the past 40 years hadn't managed to see Peter Medak's The Changeling. Fortunately the folks at Second Sight have just released the film in a Limited Edition 4K UHD/Blu-ray Box Set so I got my opportunity to view and boy was it... Continue Reading →
Simon's Horrible Hothouse of Horror 