Review: Sausage Party – “Far more inventive and intelligent than you may have assumed”
Back in the early 60’s, Alfred Hitchcock had the balls to show a toilet for the first time on film. He even flushed it. Back then censors...
Read MoreLive for Films at FrightFest 2016: Day Five
Oh, man. It’s over already? This year has totally flown by – in part due to it being cussing great. I settled into the new venue...
Read MoreReview: Hunt For The Wilderpeople – “Simply put, go see it.”
Following on from his excellent last film What We Do In The Shadows, director Taika Waititi is back with this hilarious and heartfelt...
Read MoreLive for Films at FrightFest 2016: Day Four
Yesterday was a great day, with The Rezort a nice eye-opener; the short film showcase warming me up with some quick hits of imagination,...
Read MoreLive for Films at FrightFest 2016: Day 3
And so it was Day Three already – the halfway point – but certainly no saggy slump. After extolling the virtues of Pet to everyone all...
Read MoreLive for Films at FrightFest: Day 2 – Demons, superheroes, kidnappings and more
Phew. I started the second day of FrightFest barely making it into the Horror Channel screen for the first film, but had spent the night...
Read MoreLive for Films at FrightFest 2016: Day 1
It’s that time of year again: horror geek nirvana. What Guillermo del Toro called the Woodstock of gore: FrightFest. This year the...
Read MoreReview – The Purge: Election Year – “At times feels eerily prescient”
The Purge: Election Year is the third film in the franchise and again spins the series’ high concept out a little further. The Purge...
Read MoreReview: The Tick – Episode 1 “It’s good, it’s warm…Like the inside of bread!”
“I broke a few eggs, but the omelette is huge.” The Tick is the wonderful comic book creation by Ben Edlund. I have loved the...
Read MoreReview: Lights Out – “A genuinely scary villain”
To find darkness inherently scary is human. Despite the irrationality we have all felt vulnerable in the pitch black of the evening when...
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