Roger Ebert’s Bloody Ax: An Examination of the Film Critic’s Elitist Dismissal of the Horror Film by Michael “Egregious” Gurnow
On June 29th, the illustrious Roger Ebert inserted his foot squarely into his mouth. Of course this is not the first occasion in which we find the esteemed critic mumbling as he picks bits of shoelace from between his teeth. However, the audacious arrogance and...
DOOMSDAY IN LEICESTER SQUARE… A Neil Marshall Marathon
Saturday May the 3rd was a good day to be a horror fan for anyone living in reasonable travelling distance of London. The only problem was deciding which cool genre-related event to opt for. Over at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, genre legend Roger Corman was...
Defending the King: An Examination of Academia’s Reaction to Stephen King Being Awarded the National Book Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters
“Meaningless pulp.” “Puerile escapism.” “Utter trash.” These are not the labels one would ordinarily associate with an award-winning writer’s work. However, the sound of academia’s jaw hitting the floor continues to resonate years after Stephen King was awarded the...
A ROUGH GUIDE TO FRIGHTFEST 2008 Leicester Square, London August 21st-25th 2008
Leicester Square, London August 21st-25th 2008 (Note : Full reviews of many of the movies mentioned below will be appearing on The Horror Review over the next week or so). By Steven West www.frightfest.co.uk</a> DAY ONE : When Hoodies Attack The ninth annual...
Zarathustra . . . Cthulhu . Meursault: Existential Futility in H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Call of Cthulhu”
It is frequently stated that there is a want of American existential thinkers and writers. Of the few which the country can claim as its own, they are largely fiction scribes while nary a non-fiction philosopher can be mentioned without a subsequent discussion...
FRIGHTFEST 2009
Leicester Square, London August 27th-31st 2009 (Note : Full reviews of many of the movies mentioned below will be appearing on The Horror Review over the next week or so). Festival Report By: Steven West Photos By: Ewa Madrzynska www.frightfest.co.uk PROLOGUE : TEN...
The Eye (DVD) (Jian gui) – Movie Review
"The Eye" DVD does not have much in special feature on it, Of course it's got the movie, and it had a documentary on the making of the film and includes the two U.S. trailers to help promote the film. The movie is not dubbed with American voices, however there are...
The Eye
In a year of far, far too many Hollywood remakes of spooky Asian movies for the post-RING/GRUDGE PG-13 audience, here’s a disappointingly mundane reworking of the well-received 2002 Pang Brothers movie. It’s all the more disappointing for representing a compromised...
Eye of the Beast
Just when you thought RHI Entertainments and Genius Products ran out of ideas for killer animal movies, they spring upon us Eye of the Beast, the fifth film in the Maneater series. And in case you were wondering, yes this film is yet another Sci-fi channel original...
Eyeborgs
Big brother is watching you. That seems to be the common theme amongst science fiction films that take place in the near future; a totalitarian society where the government believes it is in your best interest to monitor you 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Eyeborgs...
Exte Hair Extensions
The J-Horror fondness for making us afraid of the sight of long, black hair has reached its zenith this year with two movies in which the hair itself (rather than the ashen faced ghoul it’s attached to) represents the major threat. South Korea’s THE WIG was a...
Evilution
Opening with a quote from the Book of the Revelation, Evilution’s story appropriately begins at a U.S. Army Research Facility somewhere in Iraq. Where a very frightened U.S. Army researcher is being pursued by some very energetic undead test subjects. It’s clear from...
Evilution
A visceral prologue apes - inevitably - the 28 DAYS/WEEKS LATER movies with its frenetic shaki-cam work, fast-cuts and faster-moving “zombies” : an Iraqi research station where an alien bacterium - discovered to have the ability to revive the dead and possess the...
Evil Breed: The Legend of Samhain
Just what the hell happened to this flick! A few years ago I was looking though Fangoria and saw what looked to be a promising film, then titled just "Samhain". I waited years to check it out and finally it's released direct to DVD from Lion Gates. The problem is that...
The Evil
A psychologist named C. J. Arnold (Richard Crenna) purchases a dilapidated historical mansion built prior to the civil war in hopes of restoring the estate and making it a drug rehabilitation clinic with the help of some of his students and current patients. When he...
