Horror Comedy
Severance is a Brilliant Horror Comedy [Retrospective]
Severance finds the employees of an international arms manufacturer setting off on a teambuilding retreat. When a fallen tree blocks the path to their destination, the workers are forced to take ...
Idle Hands is an Essential Horror Comedy That Never Found its Audience
Horror in the 1990’s was a very different thing from the ‘80’s. Where the previous decade produced cult classic after cult classic (with the titles that didn’t make it...
Review: Prevenge Makes Pregnancy Scary Again
Hell hath no fury like a pregnant woman scorned in Alice Lowe’s directorial debut (for which she also wrote the screenplay, and takes the starring role), the audacious, bizarre and gruesomely hi...
Blu-ray Review: Swiss Army Man is a Touching Buddy Comedy With Horror Undertones
Hank Has given up on life and is intent upon bringing his to an end. But right as he is getting ready to take his own life, Manny, a seemingly lifeless corpse, washes up on the beach next to him. Hank...
Frightfest 2016 Review: Found Footage 3D
It takes a brave-ass movie to nod to both 3D and found footage (two things movie fans at large, never mind horror aficionados in particular, are utterly sick of) in its title. Even braver to favourabl...
Off the Grid: Seven Backwoods Texas Chainsaw Ripoffs That Hold Up
Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is a fiercely original film that remains one of the best horror movies ever made to this day. It was not the first isolated horror of the 1970s, but i...
They’re Watching is a Fun, Gory Found Footage Feature
When it comes to reality real estate TV shows, they can be something of a time sink. The found footage film They’re Watching taps into reality TV and peppers in some comedy for good measure. ...
Why Christine Brown in Drag Me to Hell Deserved Everything She Got
Sam Raimi’s Drag Me to Hell is equal parts Evil Dead and Thinner. It’s a supernatural Romani revenge story told through Raimi’s signature style. It’s over-the-top and thing...
Review: Traders Is A Hugely Entertaining, Blackly Comic Irish Action-Thriller
If two, consenting adults agree to a fight to the death for money, is the victor also technically a murderer? This is the moral quandary at the (very black) heart of Traders, a lively, Irish offering ...