Like his music, the films of Rob Zombie are not to everybody’s taste; while undeniably knowledgeable in his chosen genre, his films are unconventional and draw influences from
There is something both magical and horrifying about the film trilogy. Asking anyone to name their favourite film in a trilogy, and it will rarely if ever be
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
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
For a feature debut by Uruguayan director Fede Alvarez, Evil Dead serves all intents and purposes, and offers plenty of thrills and chills – just don’t expect a
