Category: Reviews

By Scott Dorward The Stepfather (USA, 1987) “Wait a minute. Who am I here?” The Stepfather is one of those films I remember passing over repeatedly at the video store, back in the late ’80s….

By Scott Dorward Gretel & Hansel (USA, 2020) “I know that’s your favourite story but you’ve been telling it wrong.” While Osgood Perkins isn’t exactly a prolific director, his few feature films have made me…

By Scott Dorward Two Thousand Maniacs! (USA, 1964) “…something’s very wrong in this town.” Herschell Gordon Lewis, the godfather of gore, is still a major hole in my horror viewing. Until 2014’s October Horror Movie…

By Scott Dorward Here Comes the Devil (Mexico, 2012) “To them, we’re only a shell. They use us to do evil and then throw us away.” Here Comes the Devil is another film I’ve been…

By Scott Dorward Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key (Italy, 1972) “Murder has a habit of involving all sorts of people for no reason.” OK, I admit it. The…