In what’s guaranteed to be a festive slay ride, the makers of cult slasher movies Once Upon a Time at Christmas and The Nights Before Christmas are returning with their most bloodthirsty and murderous instalment yet. Fan favourites Santa and Mrs Claus are back with a vengeance and ready to dispatch their victims in…
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SOUND OF VIOLENCE **** USA / Finland 2021 Dir: Alex Noyer. 93 mins Writer-director Alex Noyer’s feature debut is an expansion of his exceptional 2018 short Conductor and reaffirms him as a talent to watch. Told via voiceover narration, it opens in 2002, with young, deaf Alexis (Kamia Benge) struggling…
FRIDAY THE 13TH ***** USA 1980 Dir: Sean S. Cunningham 95 mins Borrowing the format and structure of HALLOWEEN and the shock tactics of CARRIE, while adding a new kind of horror star to the mix (make-up FX legend Tom Savini), this movie became as influential in its own…
HANUKKAH * USA 2019 Dir: Eben McGarr. 106 mins A Jewish slasher movie modelled partly on IT’S ALWAYS SUNNY IN PHILADELPHIA with straight-from-the-horror-convention casting and composer Harry Manfredini and stunt co-ordinator Kane Hodder among the credits. It opens with a long-haired, cadaverous Sid Haig as a notorious serial killer who…
GET GONE * USA 2019 Dir: Michael Thomas Daniel. 91 mins Writer-director Michael Thomas Daniel’s film builds a joyless (and mostly bloodless) backwoods slasher scenario around possibly the least appealing protagonists imaginable…unless someone decides to make a Wrong Turn sequel set at a “Britain First” meeting. The obnoxious oxygen thieves…