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Author Matthew Hammond

Matthew Hammond

Matthew Hammond is a full time cinephile, specializing in cult, art house and 1980s cinema. While film is his overwhelming passion, Matthew has been known to enjoy comic books, Sherlock Holmes stories and a good film related T-shirt. Feel free to email me with any questions or comments: mattpaul250190@gmail.com

Why I Love: Crank 2

Matthew Hammond
September 19, 2021
Editor's Choice, Features, Why I Love
Matthew shows some love for the Statham sequel
4.0

Arrow Video Frightfest Review: Sweetie, You Won’t Believe It

Matthew Hammond
August 28, 2021
Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews
Life can be hard. The bank calling you to chase up payments. Your wife claiming you hate her mother. The reality of becoming a father for the first time and the inevitable battles over baby...

Why I Love: The New York Ripper

Matthew Hammond
November 12, 2020
Editor's Choice, Features, Why I Love
The serial killer. The modern city. Cinema. All three were born, as we know them, of the 20th century. Each share a history of fear, pandemic, distrust, fascination, media obsession and, ultimately, each has...
2.5

Arrow Video Frightfest Digital Review: Aquaslash

Matthew Hammond
August 30, 2020
Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews
Set in a dated waterpark, Aquaslash follows a weekend of debauchery and drama for a group of high school graduates and staff members that takes a slide into murderous mayhem as a killer strikes with a...
3.5

Arrow Video Frightfest Digital Review: Clapboard Jungle

Matthew Hammond
August 30, 2020
Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews
Clapboard Jungle follows aspiring director and screenwriter Justin McConnell over five years as he aims to finally breakout in the independent film industry after years of zero budget films and dreams...
3.5

Movie Review: A Little More Flesh

Matthew Hammond
June 5, 2020
Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews
In A Little More Flesh, director Sam Ashurst pushes his metatextual technique to explore the behaviour and brutality of male abuse and rape culture through a twisted blend of critique and horror. Like his...
3.5

Arrow Video Frightfest Review: The Black String

Matthew Hammond
September 4, 2019
Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews
Jonathan is a lonely twenty-something stuck in a dead end job, spending most of his life away from work alone and working through self-help guides for inspiration. One night, he takes a leap and dials a...
3.5

Arrow Video Frightfest Review: Bliss

Matthew Hammond
September 4, 2019
Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews
Dezzy is a supremely talented painter confronting the most devastating affliction that can strike an artist: an artistic drought. Struggling to shake the block, she embarks on an odyssey of extremity on...
4.0

Arrow Video Frightfest Review: Mutant Blast

Matthew Hammond
September 4, 2019
Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews
Escaping a top-secret military base, gutsy soldier Maria and a superhuman test subject TS-347 find themselves fleeing in a zombie apocalypse. Their high action world collides with that of Pedro, a regular guy...
4.0

Arrow Video Frightfest Review: Fingers

Matthew Hammond
August 23, 2019
Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews
Some films just strike the right note. Like a tuning fork, Fingers masterfully resonates and shifts the audience into it’s own bizarre reality with a deft balance of dark comedy and an...
4.0

Arrow Video Frightfest Review: Knives And Skin

Matthew Hammond
August 23, 2019
Editor's Choice, Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews
An elegant, laconic modern noir where the mystery of a young girl’s disappearance is lost within the mystery of the teenage experience itself, Knives and Skin plays like an eerie fusion of Brick, Twin...
2.0

Arrow Video Frightfest Review: Dachra

Matthew Hammond
August 23, 2019
Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews
While a box office hit in North Africa, Dachra is a frustrating experience that fails to live up to the hype, suffering from a muddled atmosphere and a lack of complexity that strangles a film that at time...

Arrow Video Frightfest preview: The Legend Of The Stardust Brothers

Matthew Hammond
July 22, 2019
Film4 Frightfest, London, London Previews
As well as delivering the freshest cuts of new horror cinema, Frightfest has always served to celebrate cult cinema’s past, whether that be celebrating classics that have defined the genre or giving...

Arrow Video Frightfest Preview: Bullets Of Justice

Matthew Hammond
July 16, 2019
Film4 Frightfest, London, London Previews
It takes a lot to stand out as the most bonkers, brash and unique film at Frightfest…but this year, it’s going to be difficult to not give the WTF crown to Valeri Milev’s Bullets of...

Arrow Video Frightfest preview: Bliss

Matthew Hammond
July 10, 2019
Editor's Choice, Film4 Frightfest, London, London Previews
Since his breakout Almost Human, Joe Begos has been a force to admire in terms of genre thrills, independent spirit and a sheer passion for retro cult delights. His second feature, The Mind’s Eye...

Why I Love: Ms.45

Matthew Hammond
May 4, 2019
Editor's Choice, Features, Why I Love
The cinema of Abel Ferrara is caustic, caught in between the pervasive grime of the street and a religious fever that is all at once pure and faux, a nightmare that washes over you. While Bad Lieutenant is...

The Carpenter Files: Christine (1983)

Matthew Hammond
October 7, 2018
Editor's Choice, Features, The Carpenter Files
John Carpenter's take on the Stephen King novel gets the thumbs up

Arrow Video Frightfest Interview: Chuck Steel director Mike Mort

Matthew Hammond
August 27, 2018
Editor's Choice, Film4 Frightfest, Interviews, London, London Interviews
Movie Ramblings were lucky enough to sit down and chat with Chuck Steel: Night of the Trampires director Mike Mort about his sensational stop motion ode to the best of 80s action, horror and irreverence;...
4.0

Arrow Video Frightfest Review: Frankenstein’s Creature

Matthew Hammond
August 27, 2018
Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein holds an almost untouchable place in the legacies of both literary history and pop culture iconography, with image of Karloff and his neck bolts firmly on the hypothetical...
5.0

Arrow Video Frightfest Review: Chuck Steel – Night Of The Trampires

Matthew Hammond
August 27, 2018
Editor's Choice, Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews
Five years in the making, Chuck Steel: Night of the Trampires has been eagerly awaited by Frightfest audiences, and I can happily say that not only does it exceed the great hopes and anticipation for a...
2.0

Arrow Video Frightfest Review: Heretiks

Matthew Hammond
August 26, 2018
Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews
British horror has a long and iconic relationship with religious and folk horror subgenre. From the seminal Unholy Trinity of Witchfinder General, Blood on Satan’s Claw and The Wicker Man, through to...
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