Paranormal Activity was suddenly brought into the mainstream light from its grass roots by Director Oren Peli, who created it three years ago. Perhaps this was the intention all along. With the hype surrounding its initial small midnight releases with... More >>

(Bumping this review before the film screens as part of the 23rd Leeds International Film Festival, 14/11/09 at 4am as part of the Night of the Dead event, and again 15/11/09 at 2pm. While I wasn't blown away, I...

Here's a treat for fans of military horror:  French martial artist and star of Banlieue 13 - released here as District B13 - Cyril Raffaelli, also known for his support parts in Kiss of the Dragon and Die Hard...

If Conor McMahon's Dead Meat was a low-budget trip into zombie land, then what does that make the Irish director's sophomore picture, The Disturbed?  Shot on a miniscule budget, McMahon here moves into straight up revenge-sploitation, with a bare...

What if getting what you want was the actual cause of your own damnation?And there is no need to go into the philosophical (at least right away), but fact is that the last six years of Park Chan-Wook's career have...

The fine folk at IFC Films have just released Twitch-favorite films Sauna and Fighter on DVD in North America and you lucky folk now have your chance to win copies of your very own.  We've got five of each...

(Screened as part of the 23rd Leeds International Film Festival running from 4th-22nd November 2009.) It's not quite what prospective audiences may well be thinking. Yes, Tom Six's The Human Centipede is bizarre and not a little disturbing; yes,...

(Screened as part of the 23rd Leeds International Film Festival running from 4th-22nd November 2009.) It's always frustrating to see a director missing the point. Manly and self-righteous though most of eighties action cinema was, the best films of...

(Screened as part of the 23rd Leeds International Film Festival running from 4th-22nd November 2009.)Cliches have their place. No matter what a great many people argue the familiar doesn't automatically lose all its power to affect just because it's...

This is the first of a few stories I'll run on this event cuz I'm truly excited about it. So be on the lookout for a ticket giveaway, interviews and some other press. Chicagos own TERROR IN THE AISLES 3...