Author: Peter 'Witchfinder' Hopkins

FANGED UP ** UK 2017 Dir: Christian James 88 mins Christian James began his feature film career with the engagingly silly and inventive slasher movie pastiche FREAK OUT (2004) and confirmed his promise with the witty STALLED (2013) in which a lowly janitor was forced to fend off zombified Christmas office partygoers with toilet rolls, hand dryers, bras and sanitary waste bins. Despite the gimmick of seeing Ewen MacIntosh (Scotch Egg-munching Keith from THE OFFICE) as a vampire, FANGED UP is a disappointment. Unflatteringly dubbed “Spaghetti Dick” at school, dumb Danny Dyer-esque lad Daniel O’Reilly unwittingly starts a fight at…

THE MEG *** USA / China 2018 Dir: Jon Turteltaub. 113 mins Steve Alten’s best selling Peter Benchley-influenced monster-shark novel MEG (1997) is so old that it’s already had multiple paperback sequels and helped spawn two decades worth of cheap megalodon movies, from SHARK ATTACK 3 (which has the greatest line in cheap shark movie history) to The Asylum’s MEGA SHARK series. This huge Chinese-American co-production is a relatively rare big-budget, major studio shark movie that’s played straighter than Dimension’s self-consciously trashy PIRANHA movies but mutes the gore of the book for a family-friendly rating. It’s around half-hour longer than…

GRAY MATTER *** Canada 2018 Dir: Greg A. Sager 85 mins Starting off in the 1960’s with a group of young lads flicking through a bunch of stolen titty mags. They are rudely interrupted by a meteorite crashing through their tree house which makes them local news stars. Flash forward to the present day and we see the meteorite being bought online by a sci-fi geek who puts it on display in his apartment ( “my sweet ass meteorite!” ). Having laid dormant for decades this supposed “meteorite” hatches when it senses another one heading towards Earth. This one hatches…

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