CHRISTMAS BLOOD (a.k.a. Juleblod) *** Norway 2017 Dir: Reinert Kiil. 104 mins A brutal, creepy prologue sets the scene for this festive Norwegian slasher movie: a Santa-suited killer has notched up a prodigious body count over the last couple of decades, targeting law breakers with his own “naughty list” at…
VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED *** USA 1995 Dir: John Carpenter. 97 mins Carpenter’s modern interpretation of the John Wyndham novel (and its much admired 1960 film adaptation) relocates the story to small town USA and opens on a suitably uncanny note. Whispering voices and ominous music on the soundtrack accompany…
Shameless Films are set to release Lucio Fulci’s horror masterpiece THE BEYOND on a special edition Blu-ray from a new 2K scan with new extras on 13th January 2020. Synopsis: When jaded New Yorker (Catriona MacColl) inherits a New Orleans hotel, she calls on composed local doctor (David Warbeck)…
WHY HIDE? (a.k.a. Christmas Presence) ** UK 2018 Dir: James Edward Cook 85 mins A group of friends meet up at one of the friends, McKenzie’s old family home. Following the recent loss of her father they decide to all band together and have a quiet Christmas together to console…
ANIMALISTIC (a.k.a. We Are Monsters) ** Sweden 2015 Dir: Sonny Laguna, Tommy Wiklund. 78 mins A rape-revenge movie from the co-directors of WITHER and PUPPET MASTER: THE LITTLEST REICH. Unsympathetic wealthy-white-woman-in-peril Hannah Oldenburg, an Australian ambassador about to sign a controversial contract with a prominent oil company, is captured via…