PATRICK STILL LIVES! *** Italy 1980 Dir: Mario Landi 92 mins A notoriously bizarre and debauched Italian “sequel” to the popular – but frankly boring – Australian chiller PATRICK, with a beguilingly sleazy build-up (“Screaming women make me nervous!”) paying off with astonishing second half. Professor Sacha Pitoeff (the best…
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Everywhere you look there is zombies but what if your feline friend was a zombie, what would you do then? 2015 coughed up the fur ball that was ZOMBIE CATS FROM MARS and the prequel to that movie is in production. So what will this prequel entail: ZOMBIE CATS FROM…
I DARED YOU! TRUTH OR DARE PART 5 *** U.S.A. 2018 Dir: Tim Ritter, Scott Tepperman 88 mins I shall state right from the beginning that I have never seen the first four movies in this franchise, so this review is solely based on this movie and what knowledge I…
ALIEN ***** USA/UK 1979 Dir: Ridley Scott. 115 mins (The Director’s Cut) / 116 mins. It’s easy to forget, in the wake of its more action and FX-driven sequels, just how wonderfully slow-burn creepy the original ALIEN is. Heavily influenced by much lower-budget genre fare like IT! THE TERROR…
Franchise Corner Entry: FEAST FEAST **** USA 2006 Dir: John Gulager 88 mins The end result of a season-winning script from movie-making reality TV series “Project Greenlight” (shepherded by executive producers Ben Affleck, Matt Damon and Wes Craven), this confident directorial debut for Gulager is an energised, frequently hilarious splatter…