Author Ian White

In praise of the legendary (well, to us anyway) Caroline Munro

With the Soskas now household names in the genre community, and the film in question readily available, I wanted to remind everyone about my favourite film of recent years without question and, I firmly...

Ian takes aim at Michael Winner's devilish hatchet job

Amazingly, it's more than six years since the world lost a mesmerising and almost forgotten actress called Joan Fontaine. Of course, to people who love movies Joan Fontaine needs no introduction. As the...

Ian looks back at Nic Roeg's classic

Ian looks back at John Badham's vampire tale

‘The Invasion’ is the fourth and most recent screen adaptation of Jack Finney’s 1954 novel ‘The Body Snatchers’ (retitled ‘Invasion of the Body Snatchers’ for its...

After he is almost killed by an escaped psychopath, police detective Takakura (Hidetoshi Nishijima) gives up his career in Tokyo to become a university lecturer, teaching criminal psychology. But when he and...

Jamie Bernadette is a very busy lady. Last year she took the starring role – opposite Camille Keaton - in Meir Zarchi’s eagerly awaited I Spit on Your Grave: Déjà Vu, and since then...

With Remembrance Sunday only a few short weeks away, this seems like the perfect time to review two of Network’s most recent releases – one a landmark of British film, the other one of British...

I've been reviewing horror movies and horror fiction for quite a few years now. I've even written a bit of it myself. And whenever horror haters dredge up that hoary old 'but horror isn't entertainment and it...

Father Andrew Kiernan (Gabriel Byrne) is a Vatican investigator. He is currently in Brazil, examining a statue of the Virgin Mary that has wept blood ever since the death of the local priest. But the...

New Year's Eve will never be the same again after a smallpox epidemic erupts in the city of Bath, cutting a deadly swathe through its terrified inhabitants. Dr Steven Monk (Richard Johnson) is the first to...

A home invader – who has a key to the front door – interrupts a married couple having sex. He ties the husband up in the bath using rope and a series of intricate knots. He ties the wife up in...

Meredith (Shelley Ward) is an attractive single woman, not yet fifty, who has recently adopted two teenage daughters – Anna and Emilie (Luna Belan and Julie Venturelli). After a seemingly happy...

I didn’t have to watch this movie. I could have written the review of 'Most Likely to Die' (and predicted who the killer was) after reading the cast list and the synopsis but I didn't...

‘Gore Orphanage’s writer and producer Cody Knotts had already told me the movie was a mixture of a local legend and the story of British schoolgirl-turned-murderess Mary Bell, so I had a very good...

Carly's rock-star boyfriend Brad has had a breakdown. Although Carly doesn’t realise it, Brad has stopped taking his medication and is experiencing vivid flashbacks of a brutal childhood. He is also...

When a young American girl called Audrey (Dana Jamison) arrives in the Philippines to hunt down the mythical kingdom of the Diwata (a race of Gods who weave stories that manipulate the fates of man) she...

Alejandro Hidalgo’s intriguing Venezuelan suspense-horror has finally reached home entertainment release, pretty much two years after its homeland release (and a spot at last August's Frightfest). It is...

When Gwen walks into the diner she's ready for trouble, but after sitting down at the counter and giving her order something changes inside her. Suddenly she doesn't know where she is and she certainly doesn't...