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When you mention you are a fan of the Saw movies, or for that matter are eagerly anticipating this week's Jigsaw, the reaction from the majority of folk is easy to predict. A mixture of disgust, bewilderment...

After a drug deal with Mexican gangster Eleazar (Dion Mucciacito) and his trigger-happy goons turns messily violent, stoic, principled drug runner Bradley Thomas (Vince Vaughn) is forced to kill one of his...

I’ll be honest, I always have a slightly weird sensation when it comes to re-watching and reviewing the first film in any horror franchise. It’s trying to operate without the benefit of hindsight, or...

Horror Channel FrightFest Halloween 2017 unleashes seven choice shockers for the 7th annual West End Halloween chillorama – a wits-end wallow in all things gruesome, gory and glorious. This year, the...

Matt Damon is one of the most iconic Hollywood A-listers currently working in the movie industry. He has some outstanding films to his name as an actor, producer, and writer and remains one of the most...

In the Summer of 1989 in the small town of Derry, Maine, children are disappearing under mysterious circumstances. Knowing the culprit to be an evil, shapeshifting clown, seven young misfits (known as the...

Estranged sisters Leah (Francesca Eastwood) and Vee (Taryn Manning) are forced to put aside their simmering resentment when brother Michael (Scott Haze) screws up and finds himself owing a lot of money to some...

Anyone who has spent any time in my company (or has spent any time checking out the site over the years) knows that festive horror flicks are a particular favourite of mine. After all, Bob Clark's seminal...

Any regular visitor to Movie Ramblings will know that we are pretty keen on putting the female slant on things (especially horror) if we possibly can. For that reason we are big fans of The Final Girls and...

Here at Movie Ramblings we're happy to admit we are fans of 1981 gem The Howling, so imagine our delight when word came through that the film is set for a welcome Blu-Ray release and restoration. Hitting us...

Plagued by a painful condition that causes her flesh to dry and peel, sloughing off like snake skin, beautiful, young Kira (Rebecca Forsythe) experiences a disquieting sense of déjà vu when visiting upmarket...

Chucky returns (again) in the seventh instalment in the ever-expanding killer doll franchise, kicking off this year’s Frightfest with a bang – and a powerdrill, a blowtorch (you get the...

Alone and isolated, disabled war veteran Steve (Jason Alan Smith) lives a relatively solitary existence. Injured in Afghanistan and obviously suffering from PTSD, he’s become a virtual recluse, getting by on...

With superhero flicks now very much the behemoth when it comes to box office, rarely can a visit to the old multiplex pass without some reference to spandex, tights and superpowers. You may actually be...

Ramping up the mind games, while throwing in some impressive bloodshed for good measure, writer/director Damon Rickard returns with his latest effective short, Stolen. Bigger, and arguably better, than his...

There's no doubt that genre legend Barbara Crampton is a firm favourite of the Frightfest community - after all, not only has she had a slew of films screen at the festival over the last few years, she's also...

Lorraine Broughton (Charlize Theron) is an elite spy working in MI6 during the Cold War. Following the murder of a fellow agent, she is sent to Berlin to retrieve a valuable dossier containing sensitive...

A Ghost Story is a hard film to review but a deceptively easy one to summarise. A young couple, C (Casey Affleck) and M (Rooney Mara) live and love in a small rented house in smallish town Texas. A musician...

It's always great to see someone whose work you've been championing making that all-important breakthrough, so when director Kate Shenton's hugely enjoyable Egomaniac began making waves we were over the...

Available this week on download, with the DVD/Blu-Ray set to follow suit shortly, Ghost In The Shell sees Scarlett Johansson take on the iconic manga role, bringing it to the big (and now small) screen in a...

History is always written by the victors. It’s a sad fact but war crimes are only ever the preserve of the losing side. In the Summer of 1945, at the close of the Second World War, the Western coastline...