Cert 15 | 94 mins | 2015
3 stars for this glossy and highly produced horror film.
Released just in time for Halloween, Pay The Ghost is based on the novella by Tim Lebbon, written by Dan Kaye (Timber Falls) and directed by Uli Edel (Houdini, The Baader Meinhof Complex).
It tells the story of Mike Lawford (Nicholas Cage – Leaving Las Vegas, National Treasure), a very busy University…more
Cert PG | 104 mins | 2015
4 Star A new Holmes.
Bill Condon (Dreamgirls) brings Mitch Cullin‘s novel “A Slight Trick of the Mind” through Jeffrey Hatcher‘s screenplay and brings us an awesome new take on Arthur Conan Doyle‘s iconic character Sherlock Holmes, which I believe only Sir Ian McKellen (The Hobbit, 3D Box Set) could pull off.
Far away from the tales of old, of the daring…more
Cert 18 | 88 mins | 2015
4 stars of gory and explicit horror.
Released just in time for Halloween, Let Us Prey is a joint Scottish and Irish production, written by David Cairns (Natan) and Fiona Watson and directed by Brian O’Malley (Crossing Salween).
Let Us Prey is set in the small Scottish town of Inveree. One night, as the town goes about it’s business, a stranger (Liam…more
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
