WARNING: This Article May Contain Spoilers I think the important thing about French horror is that it reminds the viewer that it doesn’t need to be gory to be scary. I’ve noticed, a lot of the time they take a much more psychological angle towards things and sometimes it pans out and other times it …
Venom AKA Tom Hardy
WARNING: This Article May Contain Spoilers This is possibly the only superhero film where the hero looks awful for the majority of the film (except for maybe Deadpool but let’s not talk about that face too much), no offence Tom. Like I’ve said before, I don’t need any excuse to watch a Tom Hardy film …
Night of Anubis
WARNING: This Review May Contain Spoilers George A Romero’s Night of the Living Dead was originally planned as a horror comedy and the early screenplay was named Monster Flick. Obviously, those of you who have seen this film know that it is no comedy. It was filmed under two different working titles during 1967 – …
Revenge Films
WARNING: This Article May Contain Spoilers Revenge, def: the act of hurting or harming someone in return for injury or wrong suffered at their hands. This is possibly something, deep down, that we are all familiar with – it’s not always in violence. Even indirect social media posts can be seen as the modern form …
Elektra AKA Jennifer Garner
WARNING: This Article May Contain Spoilers Jennifer Garner first starred as Elektra in Daredevil in 2003. It’s pretty funny that every time it shown on TV, I always end up catching it from the same fight scene of her’s with Evanescene’s Bring Me to Life playing the background – and I have never seen the …
Singer to Actor: 50 Cent
WARNING: This Article May Contain Spoilers Born Curtis Jackson III, 50 Cent rose to prominence as a rapper in 2003 with the release of his first album Get Rich or Die Tryin’ (that’s not the only time you’ll that name) – which was produced by Eminem and Dr Dre. Two years later, his acting career …
Ringu vs The Ring
WARNING: This Review May Contain Spoilers Welcome to another addition of who did it better, the Japanese or the Americans. That sounds like a joke but it is very common for Japanese horror films to be remade by Hollywood and as you know this isn’t the first article on this subject (obviously a different film …
Bruce and Evan Almighty
WARNING: This Review May Contain Spoilers I’m going to open this article with a little confession. For a long time I had no interest in watching Evan Almighty because of how much I enjoyed Bruce Almighty and that I never used to find Steve Carrell very funny. However, for this blog I decided to take …
Beware The Video Nasty
An Introduction Video Nasty (def): A term coined by Mary Whitehouse that has become a British colloquialism referring to a number of low-budget horror and exploitation films. I want to take you on a journey, over several articles in fact, through the films that were once considered as ‘video nasties’. Because of this, I …
Code Name: Trixie
WARNING: This Review May Contain Spoilers OK, the title of this review may leave some of you wondering what the hell I’m on about. Well, Code Name: Trixie is actually another name for the original 1973 film The Crazies directed by George A. Romero (with the mention of that name some of you in the …