Author Matthew Hammond

From the director of Late Phases and Here Comes The Devil, Scherzo Diabolico is a highly charged and tense affair that plays out as a dark modern fable about greed, power and revenge, that might just be Adrian...

In recent years, Australia has proved to be a fertile ground of dynamic and intriguing horror cinema, perhaps best exemplified by Jennifer Kent’s outstanding The Babadook. Inner Demon, the work of...

The Sand follows a group of teenagers, who awaken from a graduation beach party, to find themselves tormented by an unseen threat. All make look normal, but if they make contact with the soft sand of the...

Horror has given us many locus of fear over the decades: pandemics that turn people into shuffling cannibalistic nightmares, serial killers with a relentless thirst for violence, creatures from other...

Mary Shelley’s classic gothic novel has been, alongside Bram Stoker’s Dracula, the ultimate site for horror adaptation since the first flickering lights of cinema. From James Whale’s...

The death of innocence is perhaps the cruellest and most devastating crime of all, and as such depictions of such a heinous corruption are treated in cinema with both aggressive and tender examinations. Hans...

In a world where Taken has become a franchise and the Expendables has found much joy out of bringing the good ol’ boys of action back to the fore, the recent trend of older actors kicking arse has been...

The vogue for found footage, teen friendly horror has been a mainstay of the horror genre ever since Blair Witch burst into the zeitgeist, and over the years, with the likes of the Paranormal Activity series,...

It Follows. It. Follows. Evocative, mysterious, bold and pure. Rarely does a title so perfectly encapsulate the mood and mastery of the film it represents, but for David Robert Mitchell’s...

In the annals of modern horror, one (unexpected) franchise has drawn more revulsion, confusion, downright disgust, and a strange little place in the 21st zeitgeist above all others: The Human Centipede. Yes,...

British director Bernard Rose's new movie 2 Jacks hits DVD and download on June 29, and we've already given the movie a thumbs up here on Movie Ramblings. Starring Danny and Jack Huston, the film charts...

When you hear a film is based on a short story by Leo Tolstoy, perhaps the first reaction is one of dread. The works of Tolstoy are so delicately woven and expansive; the task of taming them in cinematic form...

It’s been 30 years since Mad Max disappeared into the wasteland one (seemingly) last time. In the resulting void, the landscape of commercial blockbuster cinema has transformed; its artificiality...

Often in the culture of zombie horror film, there is an abundant emphasis on the physical mechanics of the zombie as relentless monster of instinct, with horror created around the constant threat of this...

In the modern age of near unrestricted access and connectivity, through the marvels of the technological web spun between all of us, bringing us closer to objects of desire that once were seemingly out of...

It’s increasingly rare in modern cinema for there to come a film that really hits that perfect note…one whose concept, execution and sheer beauty form a cinematic experience that offers something...

Every now and again comes a film that gives you something you have never seen before. More rare still, is a film that gives you something you’ve never seen before…and is absolutely remarkable....

Late Night Double Feature is a film that looks to channel the absurdity and mania of late night horror TV shows (the kind popularised by characters like Peter Vincent in Fright Night), in particular in the...

In a world where Taken has become a franchise and the Expendables has found much joy out of bringing the good ol’ boys of action back to the fore, the recent trend of older actors kicking arse has been...

The death of innocence is perhaps the cruellest and most devastating crime of all, and as such depictions of such a heinous corruption are treated in cinema with both aggressive and tender examinations. Hans...

In recent years, compelling representations of werewolves in modern cinema have been few and far between, with the depiction of the fearsome lycanthropes as big fluffy cuddly toys in the Twilight series as the...