DON’T OPEN TILL CHRISTMAS *** UK 1984 Dir: Edmund Purdom. 82 mins A deeply troubled production lends a choppy, slapdash feel to this notoriously tacky British contribution to the festive slasher cycle, though you wouldn’t want it any other way. Men dressed as Father Christmas are being butchered in the…
Browsing: British Horror
HOWL **** UK 2015 Dir: Paul Hyett. 89 mins Likeable young guard Sam Gittins, just stitched up for a potential promotion, is harassed by an assortment of ungrateful, obnoxious, plain rude passengers on a late-night train, including THE DESCENT’s Shauna McDonald) right before it hits a deer and conks out,…
THE MOTHERTOWN *** U.K. 2014 Dir: John Williams 116 Mins What do you do when you have been told to give up on your dream? Do you do just that, or like John Williams you ignore the naysayers and get on with your dream? Determined to bring his vision to…
STITCHES **** UK 2012 86 mins Dir: Conor McMahon Irish filmmaker Conor McMahon follows up his earlier small-scale zombie apocalypse movie DEAD MEAT with this novel, gruesomely inventive coulrophobia-enhanced homage to 80’s slasher movies. Miserable clown Ross Noble (treading the fine line between being genuinely funny and just plain disturbing)…