This is the movie that made me into a major fan of horror and cult cinema in general. I saw this on its release onto video when I was 11 years old. Since then I watched it numerous times and know it off by heart. With a film so ingrained into my psyche it would …
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A young schoolteacher trues to escape small town Australia and reach Sydney...but gets waylayed in the darkest possible way. This is an amazing examination of small town madness, the unspoken madness of such a life and the brutality and destruction undertaken by men. Its also an amazing portrayal of cabin fever being caused by nothing …
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I first saw this classic when I was a late teen and studying for my A-levels in college in 1994. My friend taped this for me on the same tape as Last House on the Left. With it being copied from a copy the picture and audio were crappy but somehow this added to the …
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The telephone has always held sinister connotations for me. I grew up in a time before mobile phones when everyone had a landline and telephone systems were positively archaic. This primitive system meant that calls couldn't be traced easily. This was perfect for every nutjob, crank or serial killer to call you. And this happened …
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Herein lie SPOILERS!!! I had seen this poster for Deadpool and thought, 'That looks like a cheeky and irreverent superhero movie! I must investigate...' I then watched a trailer to realise, to my absolute horror, that the man under the mask was played by, of all people, Ryan Reynolds. I instantly dismissed the movie because …
My love of horror films started when I was young. As I wasn't old enough to see these films at my local cinema I took to gazing endlessly at the posters and lobby cards for them outside my local Odeon as I basked in their depictions of fear, terror and sadism. I was lucky enough …
I first saw Leigh Bowery in the late 80s. I was at the cinema when a commercial for Pepe Jeans was played featuring Leigh. This advert which only lasted about 2 minutes left such an indelible impression. I first saw the documentary The Legend of Leigh Bowery about five years ago and again was gobsmacked. …
It's amazing when a TV programme or a film conveys a message that is so powerful that it faces strong and vicious opposition from the higher echelons of the day who seek to suppress it. Play For Today was a BBC1 drama anthology series that ran from 1970 until 1984. Alan Clarke directed an episode …
***CONTAINS SPOILERS!!!*** I haven't seen this since I was a kid and I loved it. Would this film still be as enthralling now that I was a world weary and cynical adult? The film was made in 1958 and concerns a mysterious meteor that crash lands on Earth and releases a gelatinous type living organism …
It surprised me to learn that fans of the Halloween series of films harshly judge Halloween 3: Season of the Witch as the runt of the litter. Yes, the film isn't centred around Michael Myers, but is it really worthy of the scorn poured on it by fans of the rest of the franchise? I …
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