Lake Bodom
The slasher genre is injected with some fresh ideas in Taneli Mustonen’s Lake Bodom. Inspired by the real life Lake Bodom murders from 1960, the film tells the story of a group of friends who go camp...
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Bloody Muscle Body Builder in Hell
It’s admirable to see such dedication from filmmakers that they’ll spend fourteen years shooting one movie. When the final cut of that film, a splatter-house horror comedy, clocks in at just over 60 ...
The Dark Tapes
The found footage format is tailor made for horror. Like the horror genre itself, it’s a difficult style to pull off convincingly so which makes good entries few and far between. Rarely do the films ...
Bleed For This
The boxing genre tends to follow a specific formula. From Rocky to Southpaw, the core of the plot is of an underdog and their epic comeback. Bleed for This doesn’t deviate from this trusted for...
Power Rangers
In 2015, a gritty violent short film launched online called Power/Rangers. While it turned out to be an unauthorised fan film by Joseph Khan, it received praise from fans and former cast members of t...
It – Teaser Trailer
It feels like an eternity has passed since news broke that Stephen King’s seminal horror novel It would be adapted for the big screen. Made in 1990 as a miniseries for television, fans have eag...
Deep Shock Teaser – A Tribute To Italian Giallo
Italian filmmaker Davide Melini returns with his latest suspense horror, Deep Shock. The official synopsis for the short film reads – “Sarah can’t completely overcome the deaths of ...
Six Of The Best: Bill Paxton
It’s with great sadness that I write this. Bill Paxton has died due to surgery complications at the age of 61. He was one of those actors that I grew up watching, rarely in the lead, it didn’t stop h...
Patriots Day
The violent events of the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013 shocked the world and united a city. People were glued to the media as the manhunt for the two suspects unfolded on our screens like a real-l...
Avengers: Infinity War – First Look
It’s been almost a decade since Nick Fury appeared in a post credits stinger to set up the Marvel Cinematic Universe. What followed was a franchise like no other as fans got to see their favour...