COLOUR FROM THE DARK

This adaptation of the classic H. P. Lovecraft short story, “The Colour out of Space” is Ivan Zuccon’s second attempt at tackling Lovecraft’s fiction (if we ignore the director’s earlier Lovecraftian influenced THE DARKNESS BEYOND and UNKNOWN BEYOND), having shown distinct promise with THE…more

THAT KIND OF GIRL

‘There’s a lot I’d like to tell these young things who come sailing in here …’

Directed by Gerry O’Hara (THE PLEASURE GIRLS, ALL THE RIGHT MOVES, THE MUMMY LIVES) from a script by Jan Read (GRIP OF THE STRANGLER, JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS, THE FIRST MEN IN THE MOON), this 1963…more

PERMISSIVE

Arriving in London, Suzy (Maggie Stride) is introduced to the excesses of groupie life via former school pal, Fiona (Gay Singleton), who is dating Lee (Allan Gorrie) lead singer in rock band, Forever More. Initially, the victim of cruel jibes concerning her figure (“If I had tits like yours I…more

DISAPPEARANCE

‘So, after lunch one day, everyone just left?’

This TV movie hints at the sort of horror that, for various reasons, can’t be done on American television – the mock-doc, open-ended, vaguely disturbing jitteriness of THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT and the all-out gruesome mutant gore of THE…more

THE DESCENT: PART 2

A traumatized Sarah Carter (Shauna Macdonald) emerges from the Appalachian cave system alone, having survived her encounter with the Crawlers following an underground expedition that left her five friends dead or trapped underground. A motorist, Ed Oswald(Michael J. Reynolds), is listening to…more

KNIFE EDGE

Director Anthony Hickox moves away from the campy horrors he seems to thrive on with the likes of FULL ECLIPSE, HELLRAISER 3, SUNDOWN and WAXWORKS and turns his hand to the haunted house story with KNIFE EDGE.

Emma Connaught (Natalie Press) puts a career on Wall Street on hold, where…more

ROGUE

Having submitted audiences to one of the most unnerving serial killer movies of recent years with WOLF CREEK (2005), writer/director Greg McLean follows the thematic path of Tobe Hooper (THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE and EATEN ALIVE) returning to the horror genre for his second feature with…more

I SELL THE DEAD

In some geographically-nebulous 18th Century European setting – with a mix of Irish, English and cod-Irish accents and a plot-required use of the guillotine for public execution – proletarian body-snatchers Arthur Blake (Dominic Monaghan) and Willie Grimes (Larry Fessenden) are arrested and…more