The Shed, 2019. Directed by Frank Sabatella. Starring Jay Jay Warren, Cody Kostro, Sofia Happonen, Frank Whaley, and Timothy Bottoms. SYNOPSIS: A teenager discovers a vampire living in his shed, prompting his best friend to use the opportunity to teach the school bullies a lesson. With its fairly nondescript title giving very little away, The […]
Book Review – Expectation by Anna Hope
Michelle Herbert reviews Expectation by Anna Hope… In Expectation, we meet three women – Lissa, Hannah and Cate – who have been friends forever. In 2004 they are still living together at the age of 29, knowing that the rest of their lives are still ahead of them. When the book then jumps forward to […]
Book Review – Skein Island by Aliya Whiteley
Michelle Herbert reviews Skein Island by Aliya Whiteley… Marianne’s mother abandoned her and her father when she was 16 years old after a trip to Skein Island. The novel starts 11 years after this event, and Marianne is now married to David, who seems to be boring and predictable. Although David sees himself as the […]
Extreme Cinema – Deadgirl
Deadgirl, 2008. Directed by Marcel Sarmiento and Gadi Harel. Starring Shiloh Fernandez, Noah Segan and Candice Accola. SYNOPSIS: Two high school boys bunk off school to go drink beers in the local abandoned insane asylum – what could possibly go wrong? How about discovering a bound and gagged naked (un)dead woman… Rickie and JT are […]
Extreme Cinema – A Clockwork Orange (1971)
A Clockwork Orange, 1971. Directed by Stanley Kubrick. Starring Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael Bates, and Warren Clarke. In a future British society law and order has completely broken down allowing gangs of youths to roam the streets looking for trouble. Arrested for murder, gang leader Alex Delarge is reconditioned and set free into this […]
Extreme Cinema – The Last House on the Left (1972)
The Last House on the Left, 1972. Directed by Wes Craven. Starring Sandra Cassel, Lucy Grantham, David Hess, Fred J. Lincoln, Jeramie Rain, Gaylord St. James and Cynthia Carr. The early 1970s was the period in which America was a nation bitterly divided over the Vietnam War. Wes Craven, a then young director of exploitation […]
Movie Review – The Night Clerk (2020)
The Night Clerk, 2020. Directed by Michael Cristofer. Starring Tye Sheridan, Ana de Armas, John Leguizamo, Helen Hunt, and Jonathon Schaech. SYNOPSIS: A socially awkward hotel clerk becomes the subject of suspicion, in a police investigation. Although The Night Clerk is a far cry from director Michael Cristofer’s previous sexually charged erotic-thriller Original Sin, the […]
Extreme Cinema – Rape Squad
Rape Squad, 1974. Directed by Bob Kelljan. Starring Jo Ann Harris, Peter Brown, and Jennifer Lee. SYNOPSIS: A group of rape victims form a squad in an attempt to find their attacker and deter other rapists. With a title that practically screams for attention, it is perhaps surprising that Rape Squad has been somewhat overlooked […]
Extreme Cinema – Pieces (1982)
Pieces, 1982. Directed by Juan Piquer Simón. Starring Ian Sera, Christopher George, Frank Braña, and Lynda Day George. SYNOPSIS: Young girls find themselves brutally hacked to pieces when a chainsaw killer strikes an American university campus. The tagline for Pieces – ‘You don’t have to go to Texas for a chainsaw massacre!’ – should suitably […]
Blu-ray Review – Why Don’t You Just Die! (2018)
Why Don’t You Just Die!, 2018. Directed by Kirill Sokolov. Starring Aleksandr Kuznetsov, Vitaliy Khaev, Evgeniya Kregzhde, Michael Gor, and Aleksandr Domogarov. SYNOPSIS: A cop and four other people find themselves in a violent and bloody standoff. If the grindhouse-style title of Russian director Kirill Sokolov’s debut feature Why Don’t You Just Die! doesn’t fill […]
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