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I am a huge fan of Italian horror. I count Dario Argento, Ruggero Deodato and Luci Fulci among my favourite directors.
OK, their films haven’t always been fantastic but the ones that are…really are.
The giallo style of film-making has been on the wane in recent years with only a handful of films (most notably Amer) attempting [...]
The line-up at this year’s Glasgow Frightfest was an odd one, to say the least. Some films that I had been massively looking forward to wound up being hugely disappointing, while others that I had approached with cautious optimism wound up blowing me away.
Crawl rests firmly in the latter camp.
One of my top three “films [...]
Without a shadow of a doubt, one of my personal highlights of Glasgow Frightfest 2012 was American director Padraig Reynolds’ excellent genre mash-up slasher film, Rites Of Spring.
Padraig Reynolds knows his stuff. His enthusiasm is infectious and he was more than willing to chat to us.
Myself and John Milton were lucky enough to be able [...]
One of the strangest films to screen at Glasgow Frightfest was L’Arrivo Di Wang, or Wang’s Arrival, in English.
Not strictly a horror film, by any means, Wang’s Arrival still manages to be an unsettling experience that brings to mind the best of classic sci-fi cinema. Yet, despite a name that elicits chuckles, it is a [...]
