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Also known for his Fan Documentary films, Do You Believe in Ghosts? (2017) and For the Love of Godzilla (2017).
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Video Shop Tales of Terror (2023)
Fun, Horror Anthology by the Film-makers!
Fun, Campy and Gorey Horror Anthology. Some great Atompsheric Filming and Referances to some Classic Horror and it stars Dani Thompson as a Video Shop Horror Hostess.
A lot of fun a great Anthology by Genre Filmmakers.
I watched a showing of the Horror Anthology at Quad Cinema in Derby in early 2023. I also own the Self-Distubted Blu Ray sold by the film-makers.
It was great fun and ambitious ar two hours running time.
I really loved the retro style the film was shot in. I also liked the Evil Dead and Mary Whitehouse tributes. Whitehouse was of course an anti-advocate for Horror films on VHS in the day.
Check out it out, if you can. Good Horror Anthology Fun.
My Bloody Banjo (2015)
That Bl**dy Banjo Film by Liam Regan.
Legendary. Not for the faint of heart, either. Liam Regan put together a great Director's Cut of My Bloody Banjo onto Blu-Ray. It's fun, campy and gory as you might imagine. I loved the performances and the cast. The in-film referances were fun too, "Oh, What a Rush!".
The making of features with the History of MBB making it or not even making it onto the BIG Festival Screens. Good Stuff! Nicely shot on Red Camera.
Dani Thompson was a treat and there is a bit of cruelty towards the main actors and smaller rolls. Will REVENGE from the leading cast player provail? Watch My Bloody Banjo. Fun!!!
Invasion of the Not Quite Dead (2022)
IOTNQD - Directed by Antony D. Lane is a long time coming...
I was fortunite enough as a backer to watch a screener of the film, Invasion of the Not Quite Dead.
The cut I saw ran for nearly two hours, but was worth the wait. It was well shot, nicely graded and paced. The real stuff starts to happen later in the film, but there is a lot of drama and human torment happening, through-out the film.
Mr. Antony D. Lane actually makes an appearance in the film itself. It all tackles a Pandemic and fragile mental health, which may be a sensitive subject to some, but it pulls off in the end.
Great gore effects and we follow the story of the Police as they deal with an on-coming threat of a pandemic, none of the characters are ready for. This gives it it's terror and uneasiness.
There is a suprise soundtrack featuring the band Wheatus, as well.
Great Indie Cast. I was happy to have seen this film after starts and delays. Onwards and up. Thanks for showing me the screening of the film.
The Office Fight (2000)
Great little Action Trailer by Steve Lawson & Simon Wyndham.
This takes me back...
I first saw this back in the day through a friend and found it once again on Youtube and I must say it's a smart little edit of a trailer/promo. The story is simple, a short BIG BOSS leader and his henchman office fight in which there is a small twist at the end. It has nice lighting, despite generation/tape-wear, but is nice to see this again online.
Steve and Simon are martial-art/kung-fu fans and with the help of others, shows off some nice action and tight shots.
Well done guys, Steve, Simon and crew - 3.5/5 Look for this on Youtube.
Nightmares (2011)
Are you having Bad Dreams? (Nightmares Review)
This is an anthology-like horror focusing on a group of young people's, well... Nightmares! It starts out with a young woman's dream about going into the woods after being visited by a spirit-like demon in her dreams. Afterwards, others young people follow as they experience their own fears and nightmares in each segment of this short-horror film.
Other Nightmares include Killer Clowns, Zombies and Mysterious figures in the park. If that is for you, you will get a kick and love this movie!! This indeed, is another short horror film by Newcastle film making company, Mitsuko Studios. It was made in late December 2010 and got it's premier in mid-2011 at local film festivals and is featured on popcorn horror as of early 2012 ~ a down-loadable application for mobile phones.
Nightmares was shot with still-photography with other Newcastle artists and film makers, giving it a jagged, yet nightmarishly edge as you might even see your own worse fears when you go to sleep tonight!! 8/10
She (2010)
Bloody Horror from Newcastle (SHE - 2010)
SHE is a short horror/slasher feature directed by Newcastle, England's Antoni McVay on a very low existing budget. It is set at night where a young male picks up a hurt female demon whilst driving in his car; so he attempts to comfort and picks her up but soon realises that she aka SHE has a thirst for blood! After what appears to be a dream, the young man wakes up in a carnage of blood and murder and soon discovers a house full of victims and must provide more for his new pet, SHE, including his girlfriend to live forever...
With a nice working cast, SHE is a gory little peace with some clever camera techniques with buckets of blood and gore to keep horror hounds happy. It would be nice to see this as feature with a focus on the SHE character as mysterious entity which could but fear into the audience of innocents. 8/10 - worth a look.
The Evil Dead (1981)
Evil Dead (30 Years on...) - A Cult Classic!!
Evil Dead (aka The Evil Dead) is now 30 years old this year (2011) and has been one of the most influential splatter-horror comedy of the 80s and is considered one of the best zombie films ever produced on a shoe-string budget for Indy cinema. The film was made for $375,000 and stars Cult-actor Bruce Campbell, Ellen Sandweiss, Betsy Baker, Hal Delrich and Sarah York. It is set in a vacation cabin in the Tennessee woods where a mysterious, ancient book is found which resurrects the dead, turning our heroes into blood-thirsty demons in which each of the souls are taken and turned on the living until one survivor is left to deal with the unstoppable force of the film titular title.
Directed by then-student, Sam Raimi and produced by himself, Campbell (Actor) and Robert Tapert, The Evil Dead is a non-stop splatter fest which will please gore hounds and comic-book lovers of over-the-top horror fans. I watched this as a an early teen and repeatedly viewed the video in my aunties video cupboard in summers and had known the infamy attached to this cult classic. Admitidly, I had to fast-forward through the first half hour through wanting to see the gore and even the, had to fast-forward through the horror I was subjecting to my 11/12 year old mind! However, it was the later years I picked this film up from the original days of the films release on video where I watched it in full and witness a less cut-up print (BBFC has had a field day with this title for 20 years until being uncut on DVD in 2001) and appreciate why film makers and Indy horror fans hold this film so close after all this time.
The film is made so tight on a budget that was small. Joseph LoDuca's music score was one thing that set a rich atmosphere and Sam Raimi's twisted and interesting camera angles tells a story of madness and suspense with each scare and jump, which brings me to the sound effects: they are so up front and scary for any youngster watching this film for the first time!! It will creep you out, or make you go on to make your own movie and that IS the influence of The Evil Dead in this day and age. A gem of a splatter-fest with comic book violence which, when cut-up by censors makes it even more shocking compared to what might be a gore fans dream with all the blood-letting left intact on DVD these days. I only watched this again last night on British TV and was still shocked in some ways that a horror film like this could be left intact, even for 10pm on the Sf-Fy channel - which proves this film is still full of IMPACT... 30 years later!! The sequels made, tell a different story and another review... STAY TUNED!!
UPDATE: As of April, 2013 a remake/Reboot of The Evil Dead hit cinemas and for the summer of that year, Sam Raimi had spoke again in a recent Interview about writing Evil Dead Part IV.