Posts Tagged “horror”
by Matt | 08.13.10 | Film Reviews
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 »
Tags: action, Daybreakers, horror, vampire
by Matt | 08.06.10 | Film Reviews
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 »
Tags: A Nightmare on Elm Street, horror, Wez Craven
by Matt | 08.04.10 | Film Reviews
Death strikes again in Final Destination 4 – the latest instalment of the long-running horror franchise. Slipping Final Destination 4 into my Blu-ray player, I found myself asking “why?”
Removing the disc 125 minutes later, I asked the same question. More »
Tags: Final Destination 4, horror
by Matt | 04.03.10 | Film Reviews
Ok, so riddle me this: how is it that a film so good in the first half ends up sinking lower than a leaky fishing vessel in the second?
This is a question only House of the Devil director Ti West can truly answer. But given that Mr West is unavailable for comment, it seems only fair I give it a go. More »
Tags: grind house, horror, House of the Dead, Ti West
by Matt | 03.21.10 | Film Reviews
There was a time, not so long ago, when zombies were one of the most feared creatures in the horror cannon.
Single-minded entities with a taste for human flesh have long caused a collective shudder up the spine of cinema-going audiences. More »
Tags: comedy, horror, Jesse Eisenberg, Ruben Fleischer, Zombieland