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This is exactly the kind of shlock that I love. I cannot get enough of it.
When H.P. Lovecraft wrote the short story Herbert West, Re-Animator in 1922, I don’t think he could ever have envisioned anything even resembling the wonderful madness of Stuart Gordon’s 1985, fairly loose, adaptation that, in fact, actually has more in [...]
One of the best things about writing reviews for AE is that I get the chance to watch or read something I have never seen or read before, however this means that sometimes I overlook what has come before and so I thought I would mix things up a bit by writing a review of [...]
You don’t have to remember too far back to remember Silent Hill: Homecoming, but maybe now after a little time, and after another (justifiably) critically panned sequel, maybe it’s time to give a little credit to the 6th game in the only remaining franchise that deserves it’s “survival horror” tag.
Whilst Resident Evil 5 went all [...]
Most video game fans will agree that roughly 85% of movie tie-in games are absolute tosh. However, as a general rule, having a blockbuster name attached to a title usually sees it sell by the bucket load. This is a trend that dates back to the beginning of home computing and the tie-in trend grew [...]
I was taken aback when I recently met the troops of AndyErupts and discovered after a few jars of home brew that Audition hadn’t been reviewed on the site yet. Why? Because I feel it’s one of the finer films to leave the shores of Japan. Director Takashi Miike (13 Assassins, Ichi The Killer) delivers a [...]
Indeed they do…
So much so that a local jock takes an early nose dive off of his parents roof in a doomed attempt to prove his love to Mandy by making an unfeasibly far leap into the shallow garden pool below. His head ruptures like a blood-filled pumpkin and Mandy’s weirdo friend Emmet (Michael Welch) [...]
Sequels to successful films are always attractive to financiers because there is less risk involved in returning to a property with an established fan base. Audiences are eager for more stories about their favourite characters, making the production of sequels a commercially viable prospect. In the 1980s, sequels became a highly popular staple of the film industry. Particularly [...]
Sequels – love them or hate them it seems you just cannot avoid them these days. Particularly in the horror genre, where any release that has even moderate success is likely to have a follow up movie. Usually they are disappointing as they often fall short of what made the original a success, a recent [...]
I had a massive change of heart for this piece. Originally I was going to write up a special about Nightmare On Elm Street. A movie I have the upmost respect for. Very recently I watched the original, the remake, the brilliant documentary Never Sleep Again and read Robert Englund’s biography and thought that, as [...]
To kick the blocks on my maiden voyage article exploring the universe of interactive horror, I felt it wise to start somewhere centrally significant and invoke a name recognizable to all readers regardless of their familiarity with video games. I’m of course referring to Resident Evil, nothing short of a Genghis Khan among survival horror [...]