Category: Reviews

Joshua (USA, 2006) Having spent over forty years watching horror films, I am pretty inured to gore, brutality and general unpleasantness (on the screen, at least). While I still enjoy watching blood and depravity far…

Inbred (UK, 2011) There is a scene, around halfway through Inbred, where a young man has the spout of a muckspreader jammed down his throat and is pumped full of liquid manure until he explodes in…

Bug (USA, 2006) As I’ve mentioned in previous reviews, mental illness is not a subject often served well by horror films. Even when a mentally ill person appears in a relatively sympathetic light, such as in Repulsion, people around…

The Last Man on Earth (Italy/USA, 1964) Once again I find myself surprised at the amount of work that reviewing films for the October Horror Movie Challenge takes. A year seems to be just long enough to…

Long Pigs (Canada, 2007) Long Pigs is a film designed to raise questions about what we eat, but the main question that ran through my mind as I watched is was whether a film has to…