London Reviews

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...

Every year at Film4 Frightfest there is a myriad of foreign oddities. Films with subtitles that range from the weird and wonderful to the downright bizarre. Yes, I’m mainly thinking of Tulpa when I speak of...

A single mother (Ali Larter) and her two children are tormented by a mysterious supernatural disturbance in their home. Paranormal experts have refused to help, but with the presence becoming more intense and...

“This is the future, the year 1997!” so we’re told by Turbo Kid’s opening voiceover and the apocalypse has come and gone. Self-styled hero Turbo Kid (Munro Chambers), still traumatised by the murder of...