Halloween Film Favourites...Everyone has their favourite films to watch at this time of the year and our group at Haddonfieldhorror.com is no different. Below are just some of our favourite films watch during the Halloween season. Let us know what is your favourite!Lisa Fremont - @lcfremont - VampyrFor me, it isn’t really Halloween until I’ve watched Vampyr.... Continue Reading →
TV Recap/Review: Penny Dreadful S02 E10 – And They Were Enemies (Season Finale)
@HellingsOnFilm reviews and recaps...CONTAINS FULL SPOILERSThe werewolf Ethan Chandler (Josh Hartnett) rises angrily and bloody from the dead body of Sembene (Danny Sapani) to find himself still trapped in Madame Kali’s house, much to the relief of Hecate (Sarah Greene) who goes downstairs to watch her mother (Helen McCrory) and Vanessa Ives (Eva Green). Vanessa’s... Continue Reading →
Recap/review: Penny Dreadful S2 E09 – And Hell Itself My Only Foe
@HellingsOnFilm recaps...Nighttime at the Cut Woman’s cottage: Vanessa (Eva Green) and Ethan (Josh Hartnett) are asleep until the latter wakes at the striking of a match: it’s the disfigured Warren Roper (Stephen Lord), gun trained on Mr. Chandler. Roper wakes Vanessa and reveals his horribly scarred face, before making her chain Ethan’s hands behind the... Continue Reading →
Blu-ray Review: Contamination
@HellingsOnFilm reviews...Synopsis:Starring Italian horror veteran Ian McCulloch (Zombie Flesh Eaters), Contamination, from director Luigi Cozzi (Starcrash, Hercules) is one of the brightest stars in the firmament of early ’80s Italian splatter.A cargo ship drifts into New York harbour. Its crew: all dead, their bodies horribly mutilated, turned inside out by an unknown force. Its freight:... Continue Reading →
TV Recap/Review: Penny Dreadful – Memento Mori – S02 E08
@HellingsOnFilm checks out Penny Dreadful - Memento Mori...Morning comes and Lily (Billie Piper) is in bed, kissing a man’s chest and telling him how silly it is that boys grow up. This ‘boy’ won’t. It’s the man she strangled in last week’s episode. Dressing, she deliberately knocks over the house of cards on a table,... Continue Reading →
Bluray Review: The Happiness of the Katakuris
@HellingsOnFilm takes a look at the insane The Happiness of the Katakuris...SynopsisFrom Takashi Miike, the prolific director of such shocking hits including Audition and Ichi the Killer comes The Sound of Music meets Dawn of the Dead!The Katakuri family run a peaceful country inn at the foot of Mount Fuji. A little more peaceful than... Continue Reading →
Movie Review: The Sky Has Fallen
@HellingsOn Film checks out The Sky Has Fallen...A man and a woman find themselves trying to survive in a post apocalyptic forest as a strange zombie cult tries to add them to its fellowship.Director/Writer: Doug RoosCast: Carey MacLaren, Laurel Kemper.Review:Lance (Carey MacLaren) is the samurai sword wielding hero seeking to find and destroy the hooded... Continue Reading →
Bluray Review: Vampyros Lesbos
@HellingsOnFilm checks out 70's cult flick Vampyros Lesbos...ReviewVery loosely based on Bram Stoker’s short story/unused prologue to Dracula, Dracula’s Guest, Vampyros Lesbos is the story of Linda Westinghouse (Ewa Stroemberg) who, whilst working at a law firm in Turkey, suffers a series of erotic dreams (are they dreams or reality?) in which a beautiful woman (Soledad... Continue Reading →
Interview with James Raggi IV
@HellingsOnFilm interviews James Raggi IV on RPG, Finland and horror...Imagine a Role Playing Game (RPG) created after a midnight meeting between HP Lovecraft, Ambrose Bierce, Robert W Chambers, Robert E Howard, and Dario Argento, and the result would surely be “Lamentations of the Flame Princess” (LotFP).In the 1970s, world audiences became aware and attached to games... Continue Reading →
TV Review: The Spider
@HellingsOnFilm takes a look at the series The Spider...Copenhagen 1949. When young, idealistic journalist Bjarne Madsen (Jakob Cedergren) receives a tip-off about organised crime and black marketeering on a grand scale he decides to unravel the threads of the extensive network and work his way to the “Spider” himself. A highly esteemed crime reporter tries... Continue Reading →
TV Review/Recap: Penny Dreadful – Little Scorpion – S2 E07
@HellingsOnFilm declares Little Scorpion was the best episode of Season 2...CONTAINS FULL SPOILERSIn Sir Malcolm’s basement, Ethan (Josh Hartnett) and Sembene (Danny Sapani) experience the morning after the night before of Ethan’s transformation into a werewolf, with Sembene telling of the way animals consume and become that which they have consumed. He sees his friend... Continue Reading →
Movie Review: Electric Boogaloo – The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
@HellingsOnFilm checks out the Cannon Films doco...Writer/Director: Mark HartleyCONTAINS SPOILERSRemember those straight to video or failed cinema horrors such as Schizoid, X-Ray, House of the Long Shadows, New Year’s Evil, Deathouse, Hospital Massacre, Lifeforce, or Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2?What about those other non horror titles that used to fill up the video shop shelves, such... Continue Reading →
TV Recap/Review: Penny Dreadful – Glorious Horrors – S02 E06
@HellingsOnFilm finds this episode of Penny Dreadful a marked improvement...Contains FULL SPOILERSA maid finds the dead body of Sir Malcolm’s estranged wife Gladys, throat cut, after her Madame Kali induced suicide last week. Victor Frankenstein (Harry Treadaway) awakes to see Lily (Billie Piper) making breakfast after their night of lovemaking and there is a rare... Continue Reading →
Movie Review: Society (Blu-Ray)
@HellingsOnFilm takes a look at Society...SynopsisAfter producing Stuart Gordon’s hit Re-Animator, Brian Yuzna (Bride of Re-Animator, Return of the Living Dead III) turned his hand to directing with 1989’s Society, and gave birth to one of the ickiest, most original body horror shockers of all time.Teenager Bill Whitney (Billy Warlock) has always felt like the... Continue Reading →
Movie Review: It Follows
@HellingsOnFilm takes a look at It Follows...Synopsis:For nineteen-year-old Jay, Autumn should be about school, boys and week-ends out at the lake. But after a seemingly innocent sexual encounter, she finds herself plagued by strange visions and the inescapable sense that someone, something, is following her. Faced with this burden, Jay and her friends must find... Continue Reading →
TV Review/Recap: Penny Dreadful Season 2 Ep 05 – Above The Vaulted Sky
@HellingsOnFilm gives us a recap/review of Penny Dreadful - Above the Vaulted SkyCONTAINS FULL SPOILERSAt the house of Madame Kali (aka Evelyn Poole played by Helen McCrory), the woman herself is tapping away in a ritual on one of her clay figure ventriloquist dummies (there’s the one of Vanessa close by also), breaking open the... Continue Reading →
Short Film Review: The Horrors of AutoCorrect
@HellingsOnFilm checks out the short film The Horrors of AutoCorrect... There are good shorts, bad shorts, and shorts that you’d like to have been longer, mainly because it was a cute idea. The Horrors of Autocorrect is the last of the three.The story of a young woman (Jaquelyn Fabian) watching an old horror film (Roger Corman’s Creature... Continue Reading →
Movie Review: Hound of the Baskervilles
@HellingsOnFilm checks out the 1959 classic on Blu Ray...Synopsis via Arrow VideoSherlock Holmes is the most filmed character of all time – but it is arguably this 1959 re-telling of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic tale The Hound of the Baskervilles, from legendary horror studio Hammer and starring genre stalwarts Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee, which... Continue Reading →
Interview with Nico Mastorakis
@HellingsOnFilm got to interview Island of Death director Nico Mastorakis...To coincide with the Arrow Video Blu ray and DVD release of director Nico Mastorakis’ classic exploitation film “Island of Death”, I’ve interviewed Nico and asked him a number of questions regarding the film:DPH (me): Hi Nico, thanks for taking time out to talk to us.NM: My pleasure,... Continue Reading →
RIP: The Following
@HellingsOnFilm bids adieu and eulogises The Following...Goodbye The Following. After three seasons, the network has done to you what Joe Carroll could never find it in his heart to do to Ryan Hardy: killed you dead.Sure, it was a plot that was probably only good for one season at best. Sure Season 2 lost that plot... Continue Reading →