Moving to the big city is meant to be a nerve-racking but thrilling experience. Unfortunately for fashion student Eloise, she might not be ready for quite the amount of frights and thrills in store in this horror thriller from the mind behind the Cornetto trilogy, Edgar Wright. Thomasin Mackenzie plays Eloise, a talented young designer from Cornwall who gets accepted …
The Bond movies are a franchise synonymous with glamour, action and a long lineage of malicious villains. The distinctive villains are enshrined in cinematic history however the likes of Le Chiffre, Jaws, Emilio Largo, Alec Trevelyan, Zao and Raoul Silva all share a troubling similarity. These evil characters share a visible difference, aided by extensive make up and prosthetics. In …
Going by other film franchises in the same genre, one would assume that the first film in a series with as many movies as Friday the 13th (12 to be exact) would turn out to be the best. John Carpenter did it with ‘Halloween’, Wes Craven with ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street’ and Tobe Hooper with ‘The Texas Chainsaw Massacre’. …
The overall legacy of Wes Craven’s major hit ‘Scream’ can be summed up like this, without its existence, the horror genre or put it, the slasher genre would be dead and buried with its many hulking killers fading away into direct-to-video mediocrity. Fans can thank screenwriter Kevin Williamson, along with director Wes Craven for rejuvenating the genre to the masses, …
The Friday the 13th series is a funny one for me, not only is it thrashy by nature with it’s B-movie feel and questionable acting, but it can also be a lot of fun. With the fourth instalment ‘Friday the 13th Part IV: The Final Chapter’, it has everything one would expect from a Friday movie. It has sex, nudity, …
TW: Scenes of rape and sexual violence appear in this movie. This medieval movie is based on the true story of the duel between Sir Jean de Carrouges, a celebrated knight in 14th century France, and his former friend Jacques Le Gris in 1386. Despite fighting side by side in many wars with the English, and Le Gris even being …
By 1984, the slasher genre was in its peak, Halloween (1978) may not have started the genre, but it popularised it into the mainstream. In 1984, Jason Voorhees and the Friday the 13th series was already on its 4th instalment to box office success but was rebuffed by critics alike upon each yearly release. Enter Wes Craven, the maestro behind …
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is all about sensationalism, what can make the viewer turn away in such disgust that they are oddly drawn into finishing the rest of the movie. Released in the fall of 1974, director Tobe Hooper created such a visceral experience that the legacy of a family of cannibals with the face-wearing and chainsaw wielding Leatherface in …
‘No Time To Die’ is a fitting end to Daniel Craig’s run as the iconic James Bond which includes impressive action scenes, emotion-evoking moments and the Englishman’s best performance in the role. The movie is directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga, who is best known for True Detective season one and is written by Pheobe Waller-Bridge, whose talents can also be …
It’s not often that I find myself willingly going to a horror movie alone. As a movie blogger, I would try any type of movie but I used to draw the line at horrors. I always felt like horrors were better enjoyed with someone else there to share in the fear, but also they scared the bejaysus out of me …