From The Vault

Jamie Lee Curtis' cop is tormented by psycho Ron Silver

A festive horror treat from Dutch director Dick Maas

The ‘One For All The Family’ Christmas Film Home Alone (1990)   If you summarise Home Alone in a nutshell, a young boy left to his own devices who lays a series of traps to protect his house...

It may not appear obvious at first, but Christmas is a great time to be a horror fan. Not only do you get the chance to ask for plenty of horror-related goodies from family and friends (which I have done...

The ‘Divisive’ Christmas Film Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)   Back in 1966, an animated television short of Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas was released, becoming...

The ‘So Bad It’s Good’ Christmas Film Jingle All The Way (1996) Putting Arnold Schwarzenegger and Christmas comedy together seems like a match made hell. Lets face it; the Austrian Oak’s...

12 Days of Christmas As we count down to the big day, no doubt you’ll be looking to get into the yuletide spirit, and what better way to get you in the mood than to curling up with your loved ones and...

Straight out of the category labelled ‘they don’t make ‘em like this anymore’, 1988’s Waxwork is a wildly over-the-top splatter epic. Mixing horror and comedy to a degree that rarely gets an...

Okay, I’m going to put this out there right from the off – just so we know where we all stand. If you agree, then great, but if you are so violently opposed that you plan on quitting reading right there...

Having waded through oceans of cinematic (mostly horror) drek over the years, it takes a lot to get me angry. Slightly annoyed? Yep. Frustrated or disappointed? Hell yes. But angry? Fists clenched,...

Derided by critics and justifiably unloved even by the fanbase, Halloween 6: The Curse Of Michael Myers all but killed the franchise. Sure, there were plans for a straight-to-DVD part 7, but to all intents...

If Halloween 5 was the fear franchise close to coming off the tracks, Halloween 6: The Curse Of Michael Myers was the perhaps inevitable train wreck. An absolute mess of a film, the sixth instalment is...

The franchise hits the skids

Michael Myers returns.....again

Michael Myers returns in this solid sequel

Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing star in this 60s sci-fi

No sequel was ever going live up to a predecessor that has the line "I ain't got time to bleed"

Ian looks back at John Badham's vampire tale

‘Don’t Pet Them……Fear Them’! So screamed the ads for this 1976 slice of mad animal mayhem, concerning a bunch of domestic dogs going a bit loopy and chowing down on the folk in and around a...

Released into cinemas back in October 1981, Just Before Dawn is one of those films lumped in with the wave of slasher flicks that washed into movie houses over that period. Now don’t get me wrong, I love...

A nasty slasher that it likely to delight horror fans