Author Matthew Hammond

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...

Following Charlotte, a London business woman whose life has become completely defined by her career, Keeping Rosy is a thoroughly modern, British exploration of a woman on the verge of absolute destruction, as...

What happens when you take, arguably, the most iconic storyline in the history of X-Men comics, the man who defined the film series, and one of the most impressively assembled casts in recent cinema history?...

The giallo is a sub-genre of Italian horror cinema that is oft revered, mainly for the contributions of such legendary directors as Dario Argento, Mario Bava and even Lucio Fulci. However, for all their...

Sometimes, in American culture, there seems to be nothing more terrifying that the politics of high school. The jocks, the hotties, the freaks and the geeks; it is an environment dominated by cultural...

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....

After a rough divorce that has left him without any money, foremost cult expert Ansel (Leland Orser) is on tour giving seminars about such brainwashing. Approached by Claire’s distraught parents, he...

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...

Fears of parenthood and the corruption of the female body come to the fore in Nicolas McCarthy’s supernatural chiller, Home. When real estate agent Leigh goes to assess a property that has just come...

Childhood can be a scary time; new feelings, emotions, friendship made and friendships lost. You have to be strong to be kid. And in Among The Living, this strength is put to the test by the monstrous, one...

Sometimes, in American culture, there seems to be nothing more terrifying that the politics of high school. The jocks, the hotties, the freaks and the geeks; it is an environment dominated by cultural...

Marriage can be a truly beautiful thing - the union between two people who love each other, a symbol of their eternal bond. However, marriage is never as simple as a fairy tale, and Honeymoon plays on the...

Few films can boast a killer as unexpectedly iconic as The Samurai. Cross dressing, katana wielding…it's one exceedingly bizarre sight to behold. However, it’s also defining of a film that...

All Cheerleaders Die is something of a lazarus. In 2000, first time directors Lucky McGee and Chris Sivertson teamed up to create a high school set teen horror about a clique of cheerleaders who return from...

The home invasion thriller is an endlessly interesting sub-genre of horror. Playing on fears of being violated in your most personal and intimate of spaces, this act of transgression is one that has only...

In 1999, Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez changed the face of modern horror forever. Their low budget film about a group of documentarians lost in the woods, confronted by a potential supernatural evil,...

To most horror fans, few things are as terrifying as musical theatre. However, like Rocky Horror Picture Show and Phantom of the Paradise before it, Stage Fright threatens to break out as the new cult movie...

Horror and comedy make tremendous bedfellows…the more high-concept the better. And perhaps, the highest concept B-Horror you’ll find at this year’s Frightfest is Zombeavers. If the title...

The haunted house is a staple of the horror genre, from its earliest years in silent cinema with the likes of Jean Epstein’s The Fall of the House of Usher (1928), through Jack Clayton’s...

Following Charlotte, a London business woman whose life has become completely defined by her career, Keeping Rosy is a thoroughly modern, British exploration of a woman on the verge of absolute destruction, as...

The war film genre is one that has been altered and complicated in modern cinema by the aftermath of 9/11. With the political climate intensified, sensitivity and unbiased attitude is essential to the...