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Here I go. Wading bravely into the Harleyquin’s pool of crud.
Alexandre Aja’s 2010 remake of Joe Dante’s 1978 b-movie hoot, Piranha, didn’t exactly set the world alight.
Sure, it was absolutely chock-a-block with boobs, buckets of blood and severed penises. It was mindless fun but it wasn’t a great film. The CGI was poor and the [...]
Just when you thought it was safe to put the DVD player back on, along comes DeadTime, a direct-to-DVD release that should have come with a government health warning. This one somehow found its way into the AndyErupts mailbox and was passed on to me – the rest of the team can now breathe a [...]
I am always very excited to see a new zombie film so the recent trend for ‘everything zombie’ resonates just fine with me. The idea of a zombie flick set in Cuba was always going turn heads and grab people’s attention and I was more than happy to give Juan Of The Dead (Juan De Los Muertos) [...]
I love Tim Burton. That won’t come as a surprise to anyone who knows me. I have a rather large Jack Skellington tattoo adorning my right forearm. I love almost all of his films and will defend them (most of them) vociferously. However, I am writing this as a critic, NOT as the die-hard Burton-ite [...]
London scares me. For several reasons, not least of all that it’s too damned big and too damned expensive.
Aside from that, popular culture would have you believe that London is little more than a hole of urban deprivation and roving street gangs. A myth that Kieron Hawkes’ London-based revenge thriller Piggy does little to dispel.
Piggy [...]
I love tea. In fact, I am sipping on a cup as I type this. (Milk and one, if you’re asking)
No matter how bad things get, a nice cuppa has the power to relax you and make everything right, even if only for a short time. Can this delicious beverage find its place upon this, a [...]
As the resident tramp of AndyErupts, money has been typically tight lately. I’ve not had the money to go out and buy shiny new things to review for the site (or shitey old things for that matter). I’m a law abiding tramp and refuse to download the latest torrents because, well, it’s not very nice [...]
Just when you thought that Ti West may just have done all that could be done with “slow-burn” horror film-making in 2009′s The House Of The Devil, he decides to come back with yet another delicate, yet distinctly different, creep-fest in the form of The Innkeepers.
However, where House Of The Devil was a dark, brooding affair, The [...]
For much of the team at AndyErupts, receiving advance copies of DVDs in our mailbox is like Christmas morning re-visited. It is even sweeter for me when I obtain one of these exclusives as it allows me a brief reprieve from reviewing those seemingly inexhaustible turgid horror remakes
On this occasion it is a feature called [...]
There’s something about horror films set in sub-zero conditions that just adds another dimension to movies for me: John Carpenter’s The Thing, 30 Days of Night, and The Shining are all excellent examples of movies that have been greatly enhanced by the characters having to deal not only with their respective antagonists but also to [...]
