Cert 18 | 89 mins | 2015
3 stars for a new take on an old classic legend.
Written and directed by William Brent Bell (The Devil Inside, Stay Alive), WER is a werewolf film with a very modern approach.
The film opens with found footage of a young American family, holidaying in France. They fell victim to a vicious attack by an unknown animal, the only survivor is…more
Cert 18 | 99 mins | 2015
3 stars for this reasonable but not inspiring thriller.
Knock Knock is written and directed by Eli Roth (Hostel, Aftershock) and takes place in the affluent hills around the Hollywood area.
Evan Webber (Keanu Reeves – 47 Ronin, John Wick) has the very epitome of the cliched perfect family. He is a successful architect, with a beautiful sculptor wife, Karen Alvarado (Ignacia…more
Cert 18 | 84 mins | 2015
3 stars for this old school but rather weird haunted house tale.
We Are Still Here is written and directed by Ted Geoghegan (The Berlin File, Sweat Shop) and enjoyed its premiere at Frightfest UK.
It is very much in the style of late seventies/early eighties horror films, but happily without the Mary Whitehouse effect removing the horror and replacing it with…more
Cert 12 | 13 x 30 mins | 1972
4 Star 70’s British Comedy
From the idea by Brian Clemens (The Avengers, The Professionals) and the pen of Richard Waring Marriage Lines, Not in Front of the Children), comes the 1972 BBC hit comedy show. From a time when things were very different around the subject of divorce, a lengthy process back then.
George Basset (John Alderton, Please Sir!, Upstairs, Downstairs)…more
Cert 15 | 149 mins | 2015
5 stars of fabulously scary British drama.
The Enfield Haunting is a British three part mini-series, based on the true events laid out in the book by Guy Lyon-Playfair, This House Is Haunted: The True Story of a Poltergeist. It is directed by Kristoffer Nyholm (The Killing, Endeavor).
It deals with an alleged (and well documented) series of events which took place…more
Cert 15 | 6 x 25 mins | 2014
4 star Stand Alone Sci-Fi.
Tales from the awesome classic Sci-Fi horror magazine from 1974-1987, Métal Hurlant, meaning Screaming Metal, also known in the USA and UK as Heavy Metal and in Germany as Schwermetall.
Adapted by and directed by Guillaume Lubrano these are six self contained episodes and if you are a fan of programs such as Twilight Zone or the…more
Cert PG | 91 mins | 2015
4 stars for this cheerful Halloween romp.
Friday Download: The Movie, aka Up All Night is written by Toby Davis (That Mitchell and Webb Look, Pixelface), directed by John Henderson (The Borrowers, Takes of the Riverbank) and is a movie spin off from the hit CBBC kids show Friday Download.
The Friday Download presenters are off on their summer holidays, so they…more
