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Former jailbird Carl (Toby Jones) is trying to go straight with a gardening business, however when loud knocking on his sink estate flat door wakes him up and there's nobody at the door he knows something is wrong, and its not just the banging hangover. In the kitchen he finds a glass with lipstick traces... Continue Reading →
Possum is the first feature film from writer/director Matthew Holness, the creator and star of the Channel 4 horror spoof Garth Marenghi's Dark Place. However Possum, which is on general release in UK cinemas now is anything but funny. Possum follows the story of disgraced children’s puppeteer Philip (Sean Harris), who returns to the burnt... Continue Reading →
Bring a sick bucket the tabloids yell about Julia Ducournau's Raw, don't they just love it, a movie featuring cannibalism set in a veterinary college and it's in French too so no worries about Mail or Express readers ever going to watch this film. Which would be a shame, because yes Raw has its gruesome... Continue Reading →
Jonathan Rigby's English Gothic was described by SFX as "Essential" they went onto say "Don't even try to discuss British horror films until you've read it" when it was first published back in 2000. I'd have to agree with them and as the owner of a much battered old paperback edition I was delighted to... Continue Reading →
When Nick Romano said "Live fast, die young and have a good-looking corpse!"* he could have been talking about The Cut!, London’s best underground cinema club, sadly after four and half years Bizarre magazine’s demise has pulled the plug on The Cut!’s life support. But it went out with a bloody big bang. Japanese horror... Continue Reading →
Currently in post-production Taryn Barker: Demon Hunter is a new monster hunting indie flick from Irish filmaker Zoe Kavanagh. Well you all know how much we like a bit of punk film making so we tracked Zoe down to her secret lair and over a packet of virtual Hobnobs (dark chocolate naturally since it’s my virtual world) talked things through. So without further ado lets... Continue Reading →
Twas the last CUT! before Christmas when all through London’s Horse Hospital, not a creature was stirring… Except when something really scary happened! Yes the final CUT! presentation before Christmas, Phobia was a bit of a roller coaster, with shocks coming thick and fast. MacKinlay (Michael Jefferson) is an agoraphobic who hasn’t left his apartment in a dark New York... Continue Reading →
If there is one thing we like at the Hothouse, it's film folks with a ‘can-do’ attitude. French filmmaker Guillaume Campanacci certainly fits that bill having knocked out Devils in Disguise, his debut movie as director in just 11 days. In Devils in Disguise, Guillaume has brought a very Gallic twist to what is a taut psychological thriller concerning friendship, love,... Continue Reading →
So, with the evenings drawing in it was well dark buy the time I rocked up to London’s Horse Hospital for November’s Cut! presentation. As ever Mr Chainsaw took to the stage first: “It’s not a horror, it's French and it's got Mr Ohh Ahh Cantona in it, but I think you will like it, we like to mix things... Continue Reading →
Well, you wait for ages for some Cold War era Brit Sci-fi flicks and then two of them come along together! Hot on the heels of 1965’s Invasion from our friends at Network comes Unearthly Stranger. Unearthly Stranger’s paranoia comes in at a more subtle tack to that of Invasion. Scientists at Britain’s Royal Institute of Space Research are close to... Continue Reading →
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