Category Archives: Horror

Looper (2012)

Posted on October 3, 2012 by

It’s the year 2044. Time travel has yet to be invented but, evidently, it soon will. Joe Simmons (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is a Looper, a mob assassin with a particularly niche speciality in despatching targets, already bound and hooded, sent from … Continue reading →

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We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011)

Posted on August 13, 2012 by

An unspecified time after a terrible tragedy hits a small-town American community, Eva Khatchadourian (Tilda Swinton) begins her new job in a menial travel agency, a poor facsimile of her previous career as a globe-trotting journalist. Ostracised from her community … Continue reading →

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Four Reasons Why ‘Revolution’ is Annoying

Posted on July 24, 2012 by

This is annoying. I was initially reluctant to talk about the upcoming NBC sci-fi serial drama Revolution, primarily as it’s not out in America until the autumn and goodness knows when it’ll hit the UK. Any criticism would either become … Continue reading →

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Super (2010)

Posted on September 7, 2011 by

Frank D’Arbo (Rainn Wilson) leads a terrible life. He has a dead-end job, little in the way of friends, no family and his wife Sarah (Liv Tyler) has recently left him for sleazy strip club owner/drug dealer Jacques (Kevin Bacon). … Continue reading →

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Near Dark (1987)

Posted on August 17, 2011 by

Before vindicating her career with the success of 2009′s The Hurt Locker (and further capitalising with the rather ominous-sounding Untitled Osama Bin Laden Project), director Kathryn Bigalow was perhaps best known for marrying James Cameron and, somewhat more charitably, the … Continue reading →

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The Dead Island Trailer And Video Games As ‘Art’

Posted on February 21, 2011 by

This trailer for Dead Island, a zombie survival horror game set on a remote holiday resort, is not only already a viral success but the chief inspiration for an in-development Dead Island movie ( http://uk.movies.ign.com/articles/115/1151065p1.html ). According to this article, … Continue reading →

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Why Slow Zombies are Objectively Better than Fast Zombies

Posted on April 22, 2009 by

  It has come to my attention that it’s been far too long since I last put in a blog entry. I have a good reason, as I’ve spent the past two weeks recovering from Citalopram-related withdrawal symptoms whilst simultaneously … Continue reading →

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“The universe has gone cockamamie and I’m sitting here eating carrot sticks!”

Posted on April 15, 2009 by

  Just a quick one today to draw your attention to this short film I found. It’s something I half remembered from my childhood, but couldn’t ever place what it was until recently. ’12:01 PM’ is an adaptation of the … Continue reading →

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