Easily one of the most impressive things I saw in the American Film Market was the sales promo for Colm McCarthy's dark Irish fantasy thriller Outcast.  A surprisingly realistic spin on the folklore of the sidhe - the Irish...

If you are like me and are obsessed with lycanthropes, then you are indeed very much looking forward to the upcoming release of THE WOLFMAN. Great cast, decent script, let's just hope director Joe Johnston delivers the goods.... More >>

The Spierig Brothers' sophomore effort - vampire action film Daybreakers - has been a long time coming but riding a glowing reception on the festival circuit a large scale release in the works.  And that means trailers, witha  fresh...

Thanks to a quirk of copyright law that has left George Romero's original Night of the Living Dead in the public domain the film has become one of the more tinkered with pictures out there, with fans adding color,...

Horror anthologies are notoriously uneven affairs, typically ill-matched collections of low budget efforts from little known talent trying to make a name for themselves with a quick scare or two.  Such was very definitely not the case with Thai...

Canadian Twitchers with Rogers Digital Cable! Are you aware that there's currently a free digital preview of the channel Star Chinese Movies 2*, a station dedicated to airing the best of Chinese cinema from the 1970s to the 1990s? That...

Akira is a boy with issues.  Yes, this could be said about virtually any high schooler and while it is true of Akira for the typical reasons - the girl he loves is in love with his best friend,...

Even though this film has had quite some Twitch coverage already, many people still seem reluctant to watch it. Which is a damn shame, as Pop Skull is the first American film in 5 years that gets a full score...

Up for bids the previous week at AFM and now part of After Dark Films' Horrorfest 4 lineup this new year Joey Stewart's The Final joins the lineup. The bullied teen revenge horror joins Hidden, Dread, The Graves, Lake... More >>

(Screened as part of the 23rd Leeds International Film Festival running from 4th-22nd November 2009.)What makes the Decaillon Brothers' vampire thriller Sodium Babies so special? It's an obvious calling card, yes, messy, gaudy and hyper-kinetic, throwing every low-budget editing...