London Reviews

Now, it might just be me, but when I hear about an insect-based horror film , I immediately think, ‘The Fly’, namely Cronenberg’s 1986 horror / sci-fi romance remake about a scientist who becomes a weird...

Meredith (Shelley Ward) is an attractive single woman, not yet fifty, who has recently adopted two teenage daughters – Anna and Emilie (Luna Belan and Julie Venturelli). After a seemingly happy beginning, it...

With equal measures of gruesome murders and creative visual effects, Suspension is surprisingly hard to turn away from. Switching from black and white to colour, in a way that weirdly reminds me of Kill...

Neatly working its way into that file labelled ‘much better than you expect’, Awaiting is a dark, twisted, brutal little tale. A fresh slant on the backwoods tropes so prevalent in a lot of modern genre...

As any genre fan will be able to tell you, the horror-comedy hybrid is a dangerous path to tread. Often films either dish up the laughs but fail to provide the grue, or serve up lashings of horror but prove...

Who’d be a teacher, eh? I mean, sure, there’s the great holidays. And the pay’s not to be sniffed at. And the easy access to impressionable teenagers (well, for some…). And when you get...

Supernatural slasher ‘Some Kind of Hate’, directed by Adam Egypt Mortimer, stars Ronen Rubinstein as Lincoln - the perpetual teenage victim. Similarly to Deathgasm – but nowhere near as awesome – we...

Just when I think I’ve seen just about every way you can kill a soul-seeking flesh eating zombie, Deathgasm comes along and splatters brains with a vibrating rampant rabbit in each temple of the undead’s...

I didn’t have to watch this movie. I could have written the review of 'Most Likely to Die' (and predicted who the killer was) after reading the cast list and the synopsis but I didn't because that...

Anna the agoraphobic is our protagonist in American drama-horror, Shut In, directed by Adam Schindler. However, this fact about our leading lady made me a little uncomfortable from the outset, although I’ll...

I imagine this film is a complete 'indie' dream for those who enjoy unanswered questions, vague storylines and dull scripts. The theory is: Janie (Sarah Hagan) is recovering from a recent violent psychotic...

Wheelchair-bound and suffering from amnesia, January (Amy Manson) is forced to return to her childhood home following a motorcycling accident abroad. Having been away for six years and unable to remember any...

UK filmmaker Adam Mason director of ‘Broken’ and ‘The Devil’s Chair’ and the gob-smackingly shocking ‘Pig’, is known for gruelling, brutal and often explicit horror films. This year, he hits...

Starting the beginning with the end, or if I’m going to be fancy the denouement or the moment where the film reaches its peak is always a risk. Emmerdale’s Dominic Brunt takes this risk with his Frightfest...

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...

I’ve always marveled at the lengths some critics (and moviegoers in general) will go to in order to prove that they’ve ‘got’ something, so that they can lord it over the unwashed masses who are ‘too...

A whirlwind romp through a whole host of horror subgenres, Demonic is an entertaining, if flawed, fright flick that will keep most fans happy. Taking in haunted house movie, demonic possession, police...

A boring Christmas evening of too much food and a little marijuana ends up in a series of unfortunate and gruesome events for a group of girls looking to inject a little fun into their otherwise stagnant...

Very much a film of two halves (quite literally) Zombie Fight Club is a blood-soaked, wildly over-the-top action/horror hybrid that, while undoubtedly entertaining, fails to make the grade. A sort of gory...

Once part of the psychopathic duo in Sightseers (Ben Wheatley, 2012), Steve Oram makes his directorial debut with the barmy concept that is AAAAAAAAH! Presented as "Romero and Juliet meets Planet of the Apes",...

Returning home from his latest tour of duty with a heavy prescription for Prozac and haunted by his experiences, Kotz (Zane Holtz) returns to his hometown deep in the Florida swampland and, after an awkward...