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The Cabin – DVD Review

From the outset, there’s little consideration shown in Matt Thompson’s The Cabin. The film begins with the death of a native at the

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Lizzie Borden Took An Axe – DVD Review

In 1892, a young American woman named Lizzie Borden was tried and acquitted for the axe murders of her mother and father

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The Quiet Ones – Blu-Ray Review

Hammer productions, the British heavyweight in horror, has a varied and vivid history spanning some 60 years.

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Faust – Blu-Ray Review

In 1926 F.W. Murnau, the silent-era master of macabre, released what would be his final German film before moving on to the

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Hunting the Legend – DVD Review

Bigfoot, Yeti, and Sasquatch, all different variations of the same age-old terror: a gargantuan primate thought to roam the

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Absentia – DVD Review

Considering how well writer/director Mike Flanagan’s summer horror Oculus has done, it was always a matter of time before his debut got fast-tracked to a release date. And thank God it did.

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EIFF 2014Festival Coverage

Honeymoon – EIFF 2014

For the most part, Leigh Janiak’s debut feature is a romantic melodrama in which its newlywed couple grapple with the overwhelming concept of what marriage really is. It’s not long before things begin to go wrong; thin slivers of doubt creep in and the whole film’s central relationship seems hopelessly stranded on the shores of […]

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Camp Dread – DVD Review

Harrison Smith impressed with his script for 2011’s The Fields, following on from that Camp Dread is his directorial debut.

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DbD 2014Festival Coverage

13 Sins – Dead By Dawn 2014

Daniel Stamm’s 13 Sins, a remake of Thai film 13: Game of Death, is the disturbing tale of one man’s descent into crime and degradation. After receiving a mysterious phone call, debt-ridden Elliot Brindle (Marc Webber) is set on a path to riches, all he has to do is complete a bizarre series of tasks. […]

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DbD 2014Festival Coverage

Chocolate, Strawberry, Vanilla – DBD 2014

Stuart Simpson’s Chocolate Strawberry Vanilla is a strange but welcome kind of cathartic character study. Warren (Glenn Maynard) is an ice cream man, he lives alone with his cat and tunes in daily to his favourite soap opera. However, after an awful accident, Warren’s life begins to spiral out of control: he becomes dangerously obsessed […]

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