@RJBayley reviews...Director: Cody CalahanWriter: Chad Archibald, Cody Calahan, Jeff MaherStars: Michelle Mylett, Stephen Bogaert, Josette HalpertReview:This review contains spoilers for Antisocial and Antisocial 2.The original Antisocial is a criminally underrated and under-seen film. It has witty dialogue delivered by fun and occasionally memorable characters, all while managing to make its limited setting work to bring a... Continue Reading →
Film Review – Antisocial
R J Bayley reviews the Canadian indie film, Antisocial - the horror movie for the social networking generation ...They say there's a fine line between horror and comedy. They also say there's a fine line between tragedy and comedy. Anyway you look at it, there is a line touching comedy, and Antisocial is a film... Continue Reading →
Friday the 13th – In praise of Friday the 13th: A New Beginning
@RJBayley dissects the brave if not baffling decisions in F13: A New Beginning 1985’s Friday the 13th: A New Beginning is a real oddity in the Friday the 13th movie franchise. After Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (which we all know was far from it) Jason Voorhees was legitimately dead. Not the living dead or... Continue Reading →
Film Opinion – In defence of Jennifer’s Body or: How I Learned to Stop Prejudging and Love Megan Fox
RJ Bayley takes the stand to defend Jennifer's Body...I never actually saw writer Diablo Cody’s (this is one of the occasions when the film is clearly much more the writer’s than the director’s) Jennifer’s Body when it was released way back in 2009. This was partially due to me travelling through India or South Africa... Continue Reading →
Film Review – The Puzzle
RJ Bayley reviews short film The Puzzle...As short horror films go The Puzzle isn't great. The acting is of questionable quality and that number one killer of the indie film, the sound quality, is rather poor. Obviously for such a short film it would be unfair to the piece to talk about the plot in... Continue Reading →
Film Review – Acid Head: The Buzzard Nuts Country Slaughter
I think it's safe to say RJ Bayley wasn't overly keen on Acid Head... It's with a heavy heart I write this review. You may or may not remember, late last year, my review of Bikini Bloodbath Christmas. It was a film so vile and misogynistic I had to stop watching it before the horror... Continue Reading →
The Top 50 According to RJ
The Top 50 Horror Films according to RJ...Evil Dead II (1987) Maniac (2013) Halloween (1978) The Thing (1982) The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) Dead Man’s Shoes (2004) The Evil Dead (1981) Dead Snow (2009) Videodrome (1983) Tales from the Crypt (1972) The Driller Killer (1979) Night of the Living Dead (1968) Godzilla (1954) Bubba Ho-tep... Continue Reading →
Film Review – Memory Lane
By RJ BayleyI need to establish a few things before I launch into my review of Memory Lane, mainly so I don’t come off as a pissy, uncharitable asshole who never made a thing in his life, never mind a feature film for $300. Honestly, I think you’ll understand and enjoy this review a little... Continue Reading →
Review – Muirhouse
By RJ BayleyThere must be an army of like minded horror fans out there who are all too keen to rally around the found footage format and defend it to the hilt. Not for what the genre is though. Sure it's offered some fantastic movies unto the altar of horror (Cloverfield, Rec. and the criminally... Continue Reading →
Haddonfield’s X-Rated Xmas: Bikini Bloodbath Christmas
Bikini Bloodbath Christmas eh? Where to begin?Director Jonathan Gorman and Thomas Edward Seymour's final part in the Bikini Bloodbath trilogy thankfully draws to its end.The plot begins in an American head shop which marks itself out from the competition by having its staff of woman dress in bikinis to sell the products. The film feels... Continue Reading →
Haddonfield’s X-Rated Xmas – Silent Night (2012) Review
Since the early-noughties it seems we've been subjected to a rolling, never-ending, steamroller of horror remakes, the tenacity of which the Russian army would be in admiration of (thank you for saving everyone in World War 2). Starting with films that are considered absolute classics of cinema like The Omen and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre... Continue Reading →
REVIEW – THE PURGE
The concept of The Purge is certainly high. It's also an intriguing one. In the near future America has managed to cut all unemployment and homelessness to 1% by suspending all emergency services and legalising all crime for one night a year. In doing so, the hope is that all the grudges, aggravations and... Continue Reading →