I had a cracking idea for a film recently. The plan went something like this: spread mayonnaise on the faces of a band of amateur actors and have them amble round in front of a camera for a few hours.
So it was that I watched Survival of the Dead only to find zombie maestro, George A Romero, had pipped me to the post. More »
There are no oily-chest, scantily clad fellows in Neil Marshall’s modern day Roman epic, Centurion. For fans of Gerard ‘look at my 57-pack’ Butler, this may prove a disappointment.
The British director, famed for tightly constructed, low-budget horror movies, tones down the glamour of films such as 300 and Gladiator More »
Let’s face it. We live in an age of remakes. Hollywood, fresh out of ideas, continues to mine the movie well for all it’s worth – yeah, I’m talking to you Michael Bay.
With the odd exception, these re-imaginings melt into nothingness faster than an ice-cube in a cup of coffee. More »
Hollywood continues to suck every inch of life out of the vampire genre. The market is awash with movies about blood sucking fiends – and I’m not talking about Michael Bay.
It’s always refreshing then to see a movie like Daybreakers challenge the accepted formula. More »
I’ve not been sleeping too well lately. That was until I slipped on the Michael Bay produced remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street. Since then, I’ve slept like a baby.
This isn’t perhaps the greatest endorsement of a film which centres on the fear of slumber. More »
