Author Matthew Hammond

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...

John Carpenter's take on the Stephen King novel gets the thumbs up

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;...

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 horror...

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...

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 Ben...

Australian cinema through the decades, arguably forming within the explosion of exploitation and art in the 1970’s, has been a consistent cradle for the horror genre in a suitably wild spectrum of guises....

“I have less and less respect for them …I think they don’t even do what they do very well anymore.” – Maggie Renzi, The Story of Film This quote truly encapsulates the hard truth that the corpse...

With Guy Ritchie’s hyper-stylised bombastic take on the legend of King Arthur just days away from hitting cinemas, it seems almost preordained to return to a film of the past which almost appears as a...

The anthology film has enjoyed a resurgence in modern horror cinema, with the likes of ABCs of Death, Holidays and VHS channelling the classic portmanteau through a lens of decisively contemporary traumas and...

Much of horror cinema classically has played on our fears of the unknown, of the supernatural and the other…something fantastical that we cannot fully comprehend with anything other than fear. One only needs...

Based on a series of graphic novels, Abattoir follows reporter Julia who, after the horrific murder of her sister and nephew, is drawn into a grisly mystery involving the removal of rooms in which people have...

The Master Cleanse follows Paul, a regular guy whose life has unraveled in spite (or perhaps because) of his best efforts. With his optimism crumbling slowly, Paul discovers the Lets Get Pure program in which...

Crow is a clear attempt to create a British eco-horror, focusing on the horror of evil modernism and greed in the face of natural beauty and serenity; however, the film is so poorly handled in terms of its...

A work of taut skill and playful interaction, Abner Pastoll’s rural game of appearances, Road Games, is a lithe and elegant addition to this year’s Frightfest line up. When British hitchhiker Jack meets...

The Love Witch follows the tale of Elaine, a beautiful young woman who wants more than anything to find a man that will love her with all the passion she would love them. After an experience in the past that...

Set on the coast of North Korea, The Chamber follows the pilot of a small submersible craft who is ordered by his superiors to take a three man special ops team on a secret mission into North Korean territory....

Mercy follows the tale of one family, divided between two sets of estranged half brothers, as they return home to say a final goodbye to their mother as she approaches her death. However, as they come together...

Cinema holds a power, an allure that has delighted and consumed audiences for over a century, and seemingly only grows in terms of evolving spectacle and devotion. You only need to view the pull of an event...

On a rainy night in an isolated bus station, eight strangers are brought together and undergo an experience that will not only change their lives, but the very nature of mankind’s existence forever as one by...

Francesca is, in the purest and simplest of terms, absolute giallo. It captures in totality the essence of a genre that exists still as one of the most distinctive and cultishly adored sub genres in horror...