ANNA AND THE APOCALYPSE **** UK 2017 Dir: John McPhail. 107 mins The first ever Scottish Christmas-set zombie musical, in which the eponymous zombie apocalypse hits just as the appealing Anna (Ella Hunt) is planning her gap year. Meanwhile, fascist headmaster Paul Kaye (relishing his teeth-clenching bastardry) keeps a miserable…
BODY BAGS **** USA 1993 Dir: John Carpenter / Tobe Hooper / Larry Sulkis. 91 mins Showtime’s attempt to cash in on the success of HBO’s TALES FROM THE CRYPT resulted in this one-off horror anthology, framed by amusingly bad taste scenes of a coroner (the appropriately cadaverous John Carpenter,…
NIGHTMARE CINEMA **** USA 2018 Dir: Joe Dante, Mick Garris, David Slade, Alejandro Brugues, Ryuhei Kitamura. 119 mins At last: a really satisfying horror anthology movie. The framing story features projectionist Mickey Rourke intimidating those who stumble across his old-fashioned Rialto movie theatre and referring to himself as “the curator…
Genre icons Ryan Merriman (THE JURASSIC GAMES), Jamie Tisdale (From Dusk Till Dawn : The Series) and Heather Langenkamp (A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET) encounter the terrifying PORTAL. Synopsis: The ambitious founder of an amateur ghost hunting team, is tired of chasing down the same old “haunts” as every…
A frightening futon rears its springs this November in Black Fawn Films’ THE DWELLING (a.k.a. Bed Of The Dead) out on Digital and DVD from Uncork’d Entertainment. Directed by Jeff Maher, and written by Maher and Cody Calahan, THE DWELLING (a.k.a. Bed Of The Dead) features a hot young cast…