by Martin | Aug 19, 2017 | movies, reviews
Crimes At The Dark House (1940) is nominally a version of Wilkie Collins’ novel The Woman In White in which Tod Slaughter is Sir Percival Glyde – or rather he isn’t, he’s an impostor first seen hammering a tent peg into the real Sir Percival’s...
by Martin | Aug 5, 2017 | movies, reviews
EYES OF FIRE (1986) This, Josh Saco explains, is a ‘lost’ film, and just because it is here tonight screening in front of us that doesn’t mean it has been found again. I mean, who are we to ‘find’ it? Even the director, Avery Crounse, was...
by Martin | Jul 9, 2017 | movies, reviews
In an unusual attempt at consistency I thought I’d review this folk horror season curated by Cigarette Burns (Josh Saco), consisting of four films showing at the Barbican during May, the first being: THE COMPANY OF WOLVES (1984) Only I didn’t go to that...
by Martin | Jun 18, 2017 | movies, reviews
It’s a truism that when horror goes wrong it can easily turn into comedy – but what happens when a horror comedy goes wrong? Microwave Massacre, available on Arrow Video, provides one possible answer – a vision of Hell made all the more hellish by the...
by Martin | May 21, 2017 | movies, reviews
GET OUT In Get Out a black American guy Chris (Daniel Kaluuya) goes with his white girlfriend Rose (Allison Williams) to visit her (rich) family, only to find them a little overbearing in their acceptance of him. Sure, they’re liberal, but as he wearily agrees...
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