A double dose of American indie horror feature films will be splattering onto UK cinemas this Spring courtesy of Screenbound Pictures. Featuring kick-ass leading ladies in fights for their survival, both Malum and Hunt Her Kill Her thrust audiences into their worst, terror-fuelled nightmares – be that in search of a murderous supernatural cult or fleeing a ruthless gang of killers out for vengeance. Set in confined and claustrophobic single locations the films ooze gore and let the blood flow freely. Malum When a rookie police officer willingly takes the last shift at a newly decommissioned p ..read more

A trailer has been revealed for BLINK TWICE. When tech billionaire Slater King (Channing Tatum) meets cocktail waitress Frida (Naomi Ackie) at his fundraising gala, sparks fly. He invites her to join him and his friends on a dream vacation on his private island. It’s paradise. Wild nights blend into sun soaked days and everyone’s having a great time. No one wants this trip to end, but as strange things start to happen, Frida begins to question her reality. There is something wrong with this place. She’ll have to uncover the truth if she wants to make it out of this party alive. With an ensemb ..read more

THE BAD SHEPHERD (2024) Directed by Geo Santini On digital in the UK Four friends accidentally knock down a woman on a country lane with their car on their way to a hunting trip. After discovering she was carrying a holdall filled to the brim with cash, they decide not to contact the police but to dispose of the woman’s body themselves so they can keep the money and no-one will be any the wiser. However, this decision will come to be something they later regret when the owner of the money comes a-knockin’. Thriller THE BAD SHEPHERD gets into the swing of things really quickly when we see a b ..read more

Coming Soon to UK Streaming Abusive parents, bullies, con artists, and creepy drunks might not seem like the most appropriate subjects for a slasher-comedy hybrid, but writer and director Ken’ichi Ugana gives it his best shot. To say the end results are uneven might be stating the obvious. This is a strange blend of plot clichés you’ve probably seen elsewhere, with added black comedy violence. At just under ninety minutes it doesn’t outstay its welcome, but then it doesn’t really ever explore any potential themes very deeply either. Of course eclectic genre mash-ups are also something you’ve s ..read more

ABIGAIL Directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett Abigail is the latest film from Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, aka Radio Silence. Having done two Scream films, they return to what they did with Ready or Not: a self-aware slice of supernatural horror primarily set in a creepy old mansion. A rag-tag team of kidnappers has been tasked with subduing and abducting a young ballerina (the titular girl) and hiding her there for 24 hours until her wealthy dad pays for her release. Only they’ve got more than they bargained for with this kid – it turns out Abigail is a vampire, and ..read more

HONG KONG AVAILABLE ON BLU-RAY: NOW, from EUREKA ENTERTAINMENT, LIMITED EDITION 2 DISC SET [2000 COPIES] RUNNING TIME: 87 mins [International Export Version], 99 mins [Hong Kong Version], 100 mins [Taiwanese Version], Extended Version [102 mins] REVIEWED BY: Dr Lenera A man escapes from a secret military complex. Named “Black Mask”, he’s a member of a special commando unit where the members have been experimented on to make them especially strong and resilient. However, they’re becoming uncontrollable, so it’s been decided that they need to be killed. Black Mask tries to lead a quiet, non-vio ..read more

A family on a make or break holiday retreat gets some unwelcome visitors in Blumhouse’s latest home invasion horror that offers up some ludicrous twists…. OK so I admit, I probably enjoyed A House on the Bayou a lot more than I should have. Writer/director Alex McAulay’s offering shares the same DNA among the likes of The Strangers and Funny Games and while it lacks the creative horror juices to match those offerings, it helps that some real left field twists among the same old plot, actually keeps you from being bored. At its heart, the film is all abo ..read more

  Evil kids run amok in a horror that fails to reach its potential….. Judging by the title, some horror fans may be expecting its a sequel to the underrated 2008 British flick The Children, a horror that saw a group of children go on a murderous rampage in what was a delicious delight and a must-watch if you have never seen it. Unfortunately its not, as There is Something Wrong With The Children, goes down a different path, what with its bombastic music intro that at first makes you believe that you are about to watch a forgotten early noughties horror and when t ..read more

  Stephen King’s classic story gets a prequel movie, that suggests the franchise, much like the dead on show….should have stayed buried….. Some horror movies, should never really become a franchise. When you have man in a William Shatner mask, killing babysitters, or a man in a Ski Mask, hunting down camp staff, then you have the blue-print for further movies, even though they may end up with ridiculous entries like a rapper shouting “Dangertainment” while demonstrating Kung Fu or the bogeyman getting a rebrand in deep space, causing chaos on a spaceship. The 1989 Stephen King movie adap ..read more

  The Australian slasher from 2000 that die-hard genre fans will remember had Kylie Minogue in the Drew Barrymore role…. Much like Halloween before it, the success of SCREAM in 1996 caused a mini Slasher boom, not quite on the scale of the John Carpenter classic, but did cause a wave of imitations, all wanting a piece of the bloodiest pie that Ghostface himself started the moment he arrived in Woodsboro. For every fan favourite like Urban Legend, we had to endure the likes of The Clown at Midnight, that saw Christopher Plummer a ..read more