Author: Michael Flett

As Dead by Dawn director Adele Banks said in her introduction, it is unusual to see documentary entries in a horror festival, but this is a very unusual

Is there anything as frustrating as the missed opportunity of a vision compromised? Screening at the Dead by Dawn festival, writer/director David Cholewa’s Dead Shadows is a jigsaw

The backwoods trailer trash family has been a staple of horror through inbred decades, with variations told in Deliverance, The Hills Have Eyes and Wrong Turn among many

As the clocks approached midnight on Thursday 25th April with a full moon hanging over the chill streets outside, Adele Banks, organiser of the Dead by Dawn horror

There is a hunter on the prowl, and his name is Charles Talent Manx, an appropriate appellation for indeed he does have a talent, for slipping between the

The opening frames of this film quote the profound wisdom of an acknowledged grand master of science fiction, Sir Arthur C Clarke – “Two possibilities exist: Either we

It is March 2077, fifty year after the Earth was attacked, and though the invaders have been defeated, the cost was terrible, the Moon split in two, the

Writer/director Andrew Niccol once crafted a modern classic of science fiction cinema, both in the sense that is a film that has remained untouched by the years which

Barry Levinson is not a name normally associated with the horror genre, nor either of the two sub genres explored here, the eco thriller and found footage. Opening

Michael Okuda has been part of the Star Trek art department since he designed bridge monitor displays for the NCC-1701-A for the final scenes of Star Trek IV