Category: Film

Director Timur Bekmambetov came to the attention of Western audiences in 2004 with his gritty, dark and stylish vampire thriller Nochnoy Dozor, perhaps better known as Night Watch.

He is not a well known name such as his fellow Spanish language directors Guillermo del Toro or Alejandro Amenábar, but Rodrigo Cortés could be a name to

The biggest problem facing any modern horror movie is the burden of what has gone before. With the weight of decades of previous films bearing down on them,

It is often observed that the media moves in the opposite direction to our times, that as our circumstances become increasingly strained, our entertainment becomes commensurately whimsical, and

Sometimes an idea comes along that is so outrageous that it begs to be made in whatever format best suits it, be it comic book, novel, or film.

Sometimes disappointment is the result of expectation being set to high, and certainly it cannot be denied that Prometheus, the return of Ridley Scott to science fiction after

Johnny Depp is often looked on as the Tim Burton’s muse, the actor who has inspired many of his works and allowed himself to be moulded into the

Zombies have been a theme in horror movies since the 1930’s, from White Zombie through I Walked with a Zombie to Plan 9 From Outer Space, but it

Considering the controversy sparked by the novel The Monk upon publication in 1796 by Matthew Gregory Lewis, newly appointed to the House of Commons at that time, this

The quality of a film can be gauged from how well the director, or in this case directors, care for their audience. Do they pay attention to details,