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The Taking becomes Bait on DVD
Dominic Brunt’s brutal revenge thriller The Taking, which premiered in Leeds last November, has been retitled Bait for its DVD release. Metrodome have penciled the film in for a 7th September...
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Image gallery: Eileen Daly
Yes, it's true. The Queen of (low-budget) British horror, Dame Eileen Daly herself is following her appearance on The X Factor with a trip into the Big Brother House. In celebration of which, here's a...
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Stag Hunt available on Amazon Prime
Checking my site stats, I wondered why my review of James Shanks' terrific horror-thriller Stag Hunt, which I posted back in January, was suddenly getting lots of traffic.It seems that the film has...
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Soldiers of the Damned: poster and news
Back in January I included Mark Nuttall's WW2 horror Soldiers of the Damned in my list of Recent, Unreleased British Horror Films. Well, the good news is that Safecracker Pictures are planning a DVD...
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Scream magazine's '21st Century Frights' - Part 1
I just received the latest issue of Scream magazine (with Jaws and Angus Scrimm on the front) which includes the first instalment of an epic multi-part feature by Yours Truly. In '21st Century Frights'...
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The Amityville Playhouse – it’s actually British!
I was alerted to the existence of a film called The Amityville Playhouse recently by British horror film expert Darrell Buxton, with an assurance that, though filmed in Canada, it’s solidly British.And...
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The Redwood Massacre: UK and US release dates
David Ryan Keith's old-school slasher The Redwood Massacre was released in Germany last month. Now comes confirmation of the English-language releases.The US disc is pencilled in for 7th July through...
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Whatever happened to… Jack, the Last Victim?
Among the lost-in-limbo titles in my BHR master-list is this curio, a meta-tale about a performance of a play about Jack the Ripper which becomes a horror story in its own right. It’s the only...
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German double-bill of Outpost movies
Those Germans can't get enough of undead Nazi zombie-ghosts, it seems. Here's a double bill of Outpost 2 and Outpost 3 which is set for release auf Deutschland on 31st July on both DVD and...
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Critiquing the Critic: 'English Gothic' and the British Horror Revival
“For anyone interested in British horror movies, it’s a rather startling fact that more horror films have been produced in the UK in the first 15 years of the 21st century than in the entirety of the...
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Killersaurus plays support to Jurassic Park
Well, sort of.To celebrate the release of Jurassic World, Midlands Movies and the Firebug Film Club are organising a free Jurassic Parkscreening/party next Wednesday, 10 June, in Leicester.Get down to...
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Unhallowed Ground gets cinema release and ludicrous DVD packaging
Unhallowed Ground, which I reviewed back in January, opens theatrically this week. It will screen at the Showcase in Newham, East London from Friday 12th June, and then will open in five more Showcase...
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Three's a Shroud DVD announced
Back in December 2013 I reviewed low-budget anthology Three's a Shroud after viewing it at that year's British Horror Film Festival. Out of the blue, the film has now, finally, appeared on Amazon US,...
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Psychotic (formerly Asylum) released as Psychotic Asylum
Johnny Johnson's debut feature was known at one stage as Asylum but was released in the States in March as Psychotic. On 13th July, High Fliers will release the picture in the UK as... Psychotic...
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'Haunting of Eastwood Residence' shooting this week in Leicester
Nottingham-based film-maker Anthony M Winson, who previously brought us atmospheric ghost story The Haunting of Baylock Residence has moved to a new address for his new film - The Haunting of Eastwood...
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An uncredited cameo in The Seasoning House
In the cast list of Paul Hyett's brilliant The Seasoning House, you'll find Eddie Oswald credited as 'Boiler Room Thug'. Thanks to regular reader 'Paddie' for pointing out that this is actually a...
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New BBC show looking for horror shorts
The Fear is a new BBC3 series which will showcase short horror films (2-4 minutes). The films will screen to a cinema audience who will vote for their favourites, and the winning film-maker will...
View ArticleLooking forward to… The Girl with Two Masks
I honestly don’t know whether this new British horror feature will be good or bad but one thing I know for sure is it will be different. Take a look at the brand new trailer which just went online...
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Dark Vision available worldwide through Amazon, iTunes etc
Darren Flaxstone's Dark Vision, which I reviewed just over a year ago, is now available worldwide on a variety of distribution platforms that I don't understand.Here's the press release:DARKNESS SEES...
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Zombie Women of Satan 2 very, very close to completion
I just finally got round to watching Zombie Women of Satan - only five years after it was released - and although I probably haven't got time to write a full review, I can record here that I laughed...
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