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Review: Scream 4 – That’s not a knife. Oh wait, it totally is
19th April 2011 | 0 comments | 1 person likes this
Joe West finds out whether or not Scream 4 will be his new favourite scary movie. Hint: it isn't.
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Review: Buried – Soil yourself
4th October 2010 | 0 comments | 1 person likes this
Buried is high concept, low budget and entirely engaging. It is basically 90 minutes of footage that plays on a fear so primal that it doesn’t quite stand erect. That fear, as the title callously suggests, is being buried alive, and I imagine that it provokes the kind of feeling within the viewer that is usually achieved by watching a snuff movie. No other film gives such an acute, prolonged...
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Review: Resident Evil Afterlife – Screaming Goregasm
13th September 2010 | 4 comments | 1 person likes this
Loud, anticipated by millions and featuring a shambling, mutated corpse wearing headgear and sporting a big stick. No, I’m not talking about the Pope’s visit to the UK, but Resident Evil: Afterlife, the fourth preposterous movie in this incomprehensibly successful series. I was surprised that they got the go-ahead to make two of the buggers, let alone four, because I can’t conceive of a world in which there are enough...
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Orange Cinema: A Night of FRIGHT ticket giveaway!
22nd October 2009 | 0 comments | 1 person likes this
I like a good mystery as much as the next man. By which I mean I like to read about mysteries involving the next man. Provided that the next man is fictional. And I am not reading about it, but watching it on screen.
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Review: Halloween 2 is as subtle as its director’s name
12th October 2009 | 7 comments | 3 people like this
Another year, another Rob Zombie remake of a horror classic. I write that in anticipation of what must surely be a continuing trend. After rehashing Halloween in 2007 and focusing on Michael Myers’ childhood, Halloween is back once more for 2009. And this time it has the number 2 attached. I am resisting the urge to slump face forward onto my keyboard and substitute an actual review for whatever I...
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Joe West
Joe is a writer based in the UK. He is passionate about films, as well as video games and literature, and regularly blogs about new releases as well as forgotten classics and undiscovered gems from around the globe. Sometime's you'll find his posts peppered with fruity, pretentious language, but he means well.
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