by Martin | Feb 28, 2016 | movies, reviews
‘I have a million eyes, for I am Sumuru’, says Shirley Eaton in voiceover at the beginning of this particular disaster. She doesn’t really have a million eyes – that’s the first disappointment. The notional ‘million eyes’...
by Martin | Feb 6, 2016 | movies, reviews
Ever since I was a child it seems to me that the BBC has been showing Eugenio Martin’s Spanish horror film Horror Express in a late night slot at regular intervals. This kind of reassuring continuity is exactly what I pay my licence fee for. If I had it on DVD I...
by Martin | Jan 24, 2016 | movies, reviews
GHOST THEATRE Hideo Nakata, director of the Ring movies and the excellent Dark Water returns with this theatrical tale that never comes to life – unlike the dummy being used as a prop in the play Ghost Theatre revolves around. The dummy’s head, you see, comes...
by Martin | Jan 9, 2016 | movies, reviews
Raindance! It’s the London film festival I always forget about, tucked as it is into the gap between Frightfest and the BFI London Film Festival but in 2015 I made it to one lunchtime screening at the Vue Piccadilly. It was busy, chaotic even, in the waiting area...
by Martin | Jan 2, 2016 | movies, reviews
Director James Hogan’s film begins with an unusually delicate situation for a mad scientist flick – the heroine Isabel (Evelyn Ankers) has fallen out of love with the hero Ted (David Bruce). Isabel confides this melancholy fact to Dr. Alfred Morris, Ted’s...
by Martin | Dec 28, 2015 | movies, reviews
DER NACHTMAHR Not German for ‘nightmare’, ein nachtmahr is more like a thing from a nightmare, so the director – German artist AKIZ – tells us. In the case of his film that thing is a strange creature resembling a cross between Belial from Basket...
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