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This week I had the pleasure of sitting down with V/H/S at the Wellington International Film Festival. The showing also included a Q&A with one of the key contributing directors, David Bruckner (The Signal).
If you’ve not done your homework then all you need to know is that it’s a curious hybridisation of the staple horror anthology [...]
Its been a long, long time since Prometheus was first announced. In the intervening months, we have been bombarded with teaser trailers, promo spots and viral marketing but it’s finally here.
Prequels can be dangerous territory and few have succeeded (*cough*The Thing, Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning*cough*). So surely having Ridley Scott back in the directors chair [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
I had a period in my youth where I was creeped out by mirrors.
Urban myths and the movie Candyman can take the credit for that. At one point I would not look in a mirror at night, so take it from me that the mere household mirror has the potential for horror. If you had [...]
