Last year’s The Purge is probably the one film in recent memory that requires a remake. Its sequel Anarchy makes up for a lot of the first’s problems to make a decent dose of urban violence. The film follows a man out to partake in the sixth annual Purge in an American city. His reasons…
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Review: The Purge
What with The Purge: Anarchy coming out this week, I decided I best catch up with last year’s film that I failed to catch in cinemas. I had been told already that it was a bad movie, but sadly it didn’t fail to live up to its reputation. The Purge is set in near-future America…
Review: Insidious – Chapter 2
Oh James Wan… no matter how hard you try you still aren’t convincing any scares out of me. Following the events of the first film, Chapter 2 follows the Lambert family as they attempt to leave the horrors behind by moving into father Josh Lambert’s old home. But when they do it is apparent something…
Review: The Hunger
You have to dig deep to find a unique vampire film these days, yet luckily here it is! Following a vampire couple quietly living in the city, Miriam is a vampire from ancient Egyptian times, while her sired partner John has discovered his own immortality has begun to wane. With his age rapidly accelerating he…
Review: The Devil Inside
This has to be the worst “found footage” “horrors” I’ve seen since the deplorable Quarantine. A daughter travels to Rome to meet her mother who has been held in custody by the Vatican after murdering three people during an exorcism twenty years previous. Discovering the Vatican has no interest in helping or even acknowledging the…
Saga Review: Riddick
Before The Fast and the Furious came along, Vin Diesel played an iconic part in a little known science fiction thriller Pitch Black. Asides from a bit-part in Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan and voice work in The Iron Giant, this film projected Diesel into the mainstream as it gained cult status and following. What happened…
Review: You’re Next
Despite all the atypical slasher cliches, You’re Next does have some appeal. Even if it is a long slew of endless murder. When wealthy parents invite their children and partners to their countryside house, they are suddenly surrounded by masked murderers who are intent to hunt down and kill every one of them. However, one…
Review: Troll Hunter
An entertaining found footage film from Norway with only a handful of odd inconsistencies letting itself down. In the same year that Monsters was released (a terrible, terrible movie) there was a little known monster movie released from Norway. Troll Hunter follows a group of three student film-makers who investigate a series of bear shootings,…
Review: The Haunting in Connecticut
A solid, chilling horror story that never goes too far. An American family move into a new home because of their son’s diminishing health, only to discover that it was previously a mortuary and host to supernatural events… While I had my doubts initially, with the film beginning with the tried and tested “Based off…
Review: Trick ‘r Treat
What even just happened? So it was Halloween yesterday, and I had one last film for October sitting waiting for me. I couldn’t pass it by, but I knew nothing about this feature directed by X-Men 2 screenwriter Michael Dougherty and produced by X-Men 2 director Bryan Singer! … That sounds like the wrong way…