Tag: Films

Movie Review: The Babadook (2014)

@TigersMS78 is very, very impressed with The Babadook so he is positively giddy with excitement with its release this week on DVD...It has been a while since I have seen a film that was so beautifully shot, acted and directed, that this film was a horror film makes me happy, that this film was Australian... Continue Reading →

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Film review: Evidence

Another film in the seemingly endless found footage sub-genre Evidence does an alright job in creating an atmosphere for the most part before it careens of into an unexplained Cabin In The Woods style shift.The quick synopsis – Ryan (Ryan McCoy) is making a documentary on his friend, Brett (Brett Rosenberg) about camping for the... Continue Reading →

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Film Review – Eden Lake

Wolfpaw gets comfy with British horror down at Eden Lake...It is so nice when a film sort of wraps you in a cosy warm blanket and makes you feel all safe and warm, Eden Lake will not do that. Instead it will wrap you in barbed wire and tear your senses to shreds as it... Continue Reading →

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Film Review – Nurse

Ryan may need some medical assistance after watching Nurse...Nurse never goes for realism nor does it get too deep into the characters but what is lacks in those departments it more than makes up for in fun. Yes the story in Nurse is slight and its one you’ve seen or heard of a million times... Continue Reading →

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Short Film – Service

We love indie films here at Haddonfield Horror and were excited to receive word of a new short from Jerry Pyle..."Service, starring Denna Lynn Thomsen and James Babson (Hellboy, Solomon Kane) is making its debut this spring on the festival circuit.It's the second horror short from Jerry Pyle out of Los Angeles, CA. His first... Continue Reading →

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Film Review – Vampires Los Muertos

 From the sublime to the ridiculous.  Wolfpaw gets his teeth into another vampire film...I like vampire films.Let me rephrase that, I like good vampire films i.e. Near Dark or Let the Right One In.There are so many vampire films to choose from there is a good chance that somewhere along the line you are going... Continue Reading →

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Film News – Maps to the Stars trailer

David Cronenberg's latest film deals with the most horrific thing of all... Hollywood families..."Led by the loathsome yet funny and touching child-star Benjie, we witness the convoluted world of shallow, selfish celebrities and their minions, all of whom are about to be manipulated and destroyed by the young woman who literally represents the fruit of... Continue Reading →

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Film Review – Livid

 Liam Walters reads the subtitles of this art-horror film...So I haven’t really watched too many international horror films before, and I can see how it may put people off more than other subtitled film genres may do. A horror film is designed to frighten you, to allow you to be so absorbed into a story... Continue Reading →

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Film Review – Funny Games (2007)

Wolfpaw plays some Funny Games, reviewing the 2007 remake...Funny Games (written and directed by Michael Haneke, a remake of his 1997 Austrian film Funny Games) is a film that might disturb you or it might leave you cold, then again it could put you off golf for life (not a bad thing in my opinion).... Continue Reading →

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Film Review – Old Boy (2014)

We saw Wolfpaw's review of the original, now, out this week on DVD, Lisa Fremont in defence of the remake of Old Boy...Now, who on earth would have the nerve to remake the Chan-wook Park classic Oldboy? Spike Lee. That is who would believe that he can take a well beloved film, reinterpret it for... Continue Reading →

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Film News – Easter Sunday is coming.

As Easter quickly approaches, Northgate Pictures is proud to present the official teaser trailer for indie slasher horror, Easter Sunday...A gory love letter to the golden era of slasher movies, the indie film is written and directed by Jeremy Todd Morehead and stars horror legends Robert Z’Dar and Ari Lehman. Easter Sunday's dynamic cast boasts... Continue Reading →

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Film Review – Cabin in the Woods

Written by Joss Whedon, Directed by Drew Goddard, and re-examined by Ren Zelen...So, this a horror movie, right? So we know exactly what's going to happen - of course we do.The Cabin in the Woods comes across like a 'by the numbers, paint my First American Horror Movie' - the major players fit the classic... Continue Reading →

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Film News – The Signal

A new poster has been revealed to go with the recent trailer for The Signal..."Bates Motel’s" Olivia Cooke and "Hannibal’s" Laurence Fishburne star in The Signal about group of college students who are lured to the middle of the desert by a hacker.  The film is directed by William Eubank from a script he wrote... Continue Reading →

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Film News – Phantasm V Trailer

Hot on the heels of Wednesday's poster we have the teaser trailer for Phantasm V: RaVager..."The long-awaited fifth and final entry in Don Coscarelli's classic horror Phantasm film series is coming soon."Starring regulars Reggie Bannister, Michael Baldwin and Angus Scrimm and, as we reported on Wednesday, with the return of Kat Lester as the Lady... Continue Reading →

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Film News – Nightmare Code Teaser Trailer

Nightmare Code is the result of a successful crown funder and stars The Walking Dead's Andrew J West..."After a programmer working on a top secret surveillance program snaps in a murderous rage, a notorious code wizard with problems of his own moves into the startup offices to figure out what went wrong and deliver the... Continue Reading →

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