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Richard Driscoll is back with... The Kamikaze Squad!
Great news, everyone! Richard Driscoll, the UK’s worst film-maker, is up and running again and planning to shoot new footage this month. (Although, as we all know, ‘planning to’ doesn’t mean...
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Let's Be Evil UK DVD this month
Vertigo Films release Let's Be Evil on DVD in the UK on 30th January. The publicity calls it "a psychological sci-fi thriller set in Los Angeles" but don't be alarmed, it's actually a British horror...
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Can’t wait to see: Night Kaleidoscope
Grant McPhee’s stylish and trippy vampire feature Night Kaleidoscope was passed by the BBFC last week which implies a DVD release won’t be too far off. (The IMDB cites 4th February but we all know how...
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16 British horror films we thought we'd never see
After a film is made, there can be a long gap before it is finally available to view. This can be for one of several reasons. Sometimes the money for post-production runs out; sometimes the...
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33 British horror films you can pick up for less than two quid a pop
For less than £66 you could build an entire library of 21st century British horror. Even less if you decide to skip Alone, Octane and The Gathering which are all rubbish to be honest. Click on a sleeve...
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Can't wait to see... Darkness Wakes
Simon Richardson's feature Charlotte Wakes has been on my masterlist since it was shot a couple of tears ago. It has just popped up on Amazon pre-order under the new title Darkness Wakes. It's...
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Zombies Have Fallen - apparently
Zombies Have Fallen is a brand new British horror film, as you can probably tell from the artwork. Shot over three years around Gretna Green (as Bad Blood) this has just been released on Amazon...
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12 British horror films which took 6 or more years to get released
Sometimes films are announced, made, publicised, maybe even play a few festivals - then simply vanish. But all is not lost. Just because a movie disappeared into several years ago doesn't mean it won't...
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Now on release 1: new vampire feature Night Kaleidoscope
Review coming soon. Meanwhile, from the press release:Fresh from its preview screening at the Atlanta Days of the Dead Horror Convention, you can finally watch Night Kaleidoscope on Amazon Prime, buy...
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Now on release 2: The Chamber
Ben Parker's tense, claustrophobic and very wet horror-thriller The Chamber opens in cinemas today.You can catch it all week at the Picturehouse Central in That London or at Chapter Arts Centre in...
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New Steve Lawson film, with special guest star
On Sunday I had the pleasure of hanging out at my old mate Steve Lawson's Creativ Studios where he was shooting his latest (title TBC) horror feature for 88 Films (who also back his recent geezer...
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Films that sneaked out when no-one was looking: Territory
Territory has been in the ‘unreleased, possibly uncompleted’ appendix of my masterlist since it was shot back in 2012. It is now available to view on YouTube, where it popped up with minimal fanfare...
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Can't wait to see... the new Dr Blood's Coffin remake
There haven’t been many remakes among recent British horror films. There’s been the odd one, like Stalker, which was a remake of Exposé aka Trauma aka The House on Straw Hill aka whatever, and Beast in...
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British slasher Clown Kill (formerly Lock In) out in May
Three years ago I reviewed Lock In, the debut feature by Mark J Howard. It was a fun slasher about a woman trapped in an office building with a psycho dressed as a clown. The film was available on VOD...
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Boots on the Ground - exclusive stills
My old mate Louis Melville (The Last Horror Movie, Man Who Sold the World) has sent me some exclusive stills from his new war/horror film Boots on the Ground. Plus some info. The film is now deep in...
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Why 47 Meters Down could be the biggest British horror film ever
Obviously it’s not being marketed as a horror film. Or indeed as British. But that’s no reason for us not to celebrate a genuine homegrown success that has the potential to be a huge commercial...
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Almost here at last - Spidarlings
I first ran a teaser for Spidarlings way back in March 2012, since when it has been not only on my British Horror masterlist (in the Coming Soon section) but also on my unofficial Looking Forward To...
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Johannes Roberts - a retrospective
With ten(-ish) features under his belt, Johannes Roberts can lay claim to being one of Britain’s busiest and most successful horror movie directors. This Friday, his shark film 47 Meters Down– starring...
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Strong opening weekend for 47 Meters Down
Johannes Roberts' shark pic 47 Meters Down, which I make no apologies for constantly plugging, took $11.5 million in its opening weekend according to Box Office Mojo.It was the third highest opener...
View Article50 great British horror films since 2010
Every so often I see someone on Twitter bemoaning the lack of recent British horror films. If only they made more films like this one movie I like; or Why don’t the Brits make horror films anymore; or...
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