“Sleepless” was originally released in 2001 and saw legendary horror director Dario Argento returning to the Giallo form in an attempt to reverse what had seemed for many years to be the irreversible decline of his once glorious career. Perhaps inevitably receiving mixed reactions from critics and...

UK gore and horror fans have real reason to rejoice as Lucio Fulci’s 1981 gut muncher “The House by the Cemetery” has at last been passed uncut by the dreaded BBFC. The film now returns to DVD in all its gruesome glory via Arrow Video as part of their Masters of Giallo series, and comes complete...

Okay, an admission right up front, this review contains spoilers for the film The Final Inquiry. Here it comes… Ready? Jesus dies. If that doesn’t shock or surprise you then absolutely nothing else about this movie will. It is, very nearly, the most mediocre film, ever. It’s not...

With all the recent hype and furor surrounding Asian gore films such as “Ichi the Killer” and more extreme fare like the “Guinea Pig” series, it’s sometimes easy to forget the wave of splatter that surged forth from Europe in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Whilst some of...

Surprisingly, I had a lot of hope for “Demons”, and was anticipating its first reveal of the demons that would terrorize our characters with bated breath. And then the demons were revealed, and all the hope and expectation I had for Lamberto Bava’s 1985 horror film, “Demons”,...

Anyone who plans on watching Lucio Fulci’s The Beyond is advised not to eat beforehand or plan on eating right after the viewing. The Beyond is a Zombies Attack film made by the same man who gave us Zombie, one of the more spectacular Zombies Attack pictures I’ve seen in recent memory. And...

I have a revolving policy when it comes to movie reviews. Depending on the movie in question, I will adjust my review parameters appropriately. Why do I do this? Because I wouldn’t dream of looking at a subgenre film (such as a Zombies Attack movie) the same way as I would a normal, mainstream...

Malena takes place in the 1940s, as Italy gears up for war with the Allied nations, confident in its superiority and in its righteousness. The film stars the beautiful Italian actress Monica Belluci (Brotherhood of the Wolf) as the titular character, a young wife who was brought to this new town by her...