Pusit is in trouble. On one single day his car gets repossessed, he’s fired from his job and his debts crawl so far into the red his wallet is bleeding. Looking at a fantastically bleak future, a strange phone call offering him money for simple tasks seems too good to be true. The first task [...]

It only comes once a year, and it’s more exciting than Christmas. Whether you like carving the pumpkins, dressing up like a devil or lobbing eggs at Mrs Granger’s house, Halloween has a thousand memories for us all. The only problem is there’s so much to do. Yeah, the 31st is reserved for drunken costume [...]

On initial understanding of the plot, A Perfect Getaway seems startlingly simple and tragically unoriginal, but this thriller / horror truly grips, is exceptionally scripted and very well directed, bringing the best performances out of some actors more recently known for mediocrity at best.
Sickeningly loveable newlyweds Cliff and Sydney (Steve Zahn and Milla Jovovich) are [...]

Steven Seagal versus the undead. That is what Against the Dark promises and delivers, but tragically in a lack-lustre, dull and utterly repetitive way.
Against the Dark is set in the near future, where an outbreak of vampirism has decimated most of the world for no particular reason. Seagal is Tao, senior member of some [...]

Antichrist is brilliant. It is visually stunning, intense, smart, bizarre, scary, horrific, bonkers and beautiful. It is also terrible. This oxymoronic horror / drama / piss-take is hard to describe without juxtaposing every sentence you can write about it. It is a work of modern art – provoking and frustrating.
Antichrist is about a couple [...]

Awake is dull. Great concept, appalling script, terribly acted and manically boring. If you want to continue reading this review, then it’s guaranteed to be more entertaining than the ninety minutes of sleep-inducing crud that someone felt necessary to commit to film. Avoid this unless you’ve run out of anaesthetic.
Clay Beresford (Hayden Christensen) has a [...]

It has been sixteen years since cult horror film director Frank Henenlotter last made a feature film. Greatly anticipated by many, finally he has brought us Bad Biology, co-written with legendary rapper R.A. Thorburn. So, was it worth the wait? Well, only if you were waiting for a colourful exploitative bag of charmless nonsense…
One [...]

As 2009 comes to a close, the Gorepress team members come up with their personal choices for the top 10 horror movies of the 21st Century so far…

Blood: The Last Vampire is a diseased prostitute of a film – the idea is solid if risky, the initial few minutes are great fun, but then you gradually realize exactly how much pain you’re going to be in later on and it’s a horrible, heart-aching trudge that you will pay for in a lot [...]

Holidays in foreign countries never work out for horny Americans. They begin well, with a plethora of drugs, prostitutes and drinks, but always seem to end with a helping of horrible violence. Borderland is exactly like this – tragically clichéd, but also burdened with a lackluster storyline, some dull direction and poor character work. It’s [...]

Call of the Hunter is bloody good fun. Despite it’s low budget feel, it is well acted, expertly paced and slyly scripted. It is a compelling and amusing British comedy-horror.
A film crew set out to make a documentary about the legend of Herne the Hunter, a mythical huntsman who haunts Herongate Woods. Sceptical and unafraid [...]

Carriers is incredibly depressing. It is a solid, uninspired film that moves along at an expected pace and does nothing surprising. All it does competently is paint an incredibly grim picture of post-apocalyptic America, without humour and without love. This film will make you unhappy.
Beginning with a shameless attempt at poignancy, featuring old camera footage [...]

Cirque du Freak is completely idiotic. This will come as no surprise to anyone who’s seen the trailer, but it is completely idiotic in a relatively harmless, enjoyable way. It is damaged by poor editing, careless acting and the occasional scripting howler, but it’s silly, watchable fun that children and adults can both watch and [...]

Coffin Rock is a movie of two halves. One half is a slow-burning drama with a lurking danger, while the other half is a tense, slightly disturbing thriller / horror. It is well made, yet so startlingly unoriginal that it will never be thought of as great or innovative. Solid work, but easily forgotten.
Jessie and [...]

Recipe No. 1 – take one potentially brilliant idea and pour it into a pot, then mix shamelessly with a director / writer duo who love blood, violence and CGI exploding vampires. Now you have the recipe for Daybreakers. This film smacks of un-met potential throughout, and although it’s great fun in places, dull in [...]

Calling Demon Warriors wildly, brutally insane is perhaps an understatement. It is confused, excessively violent, baffling and thoroughly enjoyable. A great watch, but any attempt to understand the story will have even the smartest person scratching the scalp off their skull. Mad, confusing, bloody fun.
Demon Warriors begins with a screen declaring “This movie is to [...]

Doghouse is fun, a lot of fun, but do not expect a cerebral challenge or anything close to sensible… expect instead carnage, stupidity and a great 85 minutes of mad entertainment.
Vince (Stephen Graham) is getting a divorce and his friends want to help him forget all about it. With partying in mind, Mikey (Noel [...]

The Evil Dead Trilogy. If you say those words to any self-respecting horror fan, they’re guaranteed to mention two names – Bruce Campbell and Sam Raimi. Army of Darkness came out in 1992, and since then director Raimi has been increasing his presence in Hollywood cinema, from the good (A Simple Plan / The Quick [...]

From the director of House of the Dead, Alone in the Dark 1 & 2, BloodRayne 1 & 2 and Postal comes a half-decent film… somehow. Far Cry is stupid, clichéd and utterly predictable, but it is also funny, enjoyably violent and enjoyably silly. Do not bring your brain anywhere near this film otherwise it [...]

Ghost Ship is a shockingly bad movie. A bumbling insane plot coupled with a sweaty mass of bad acting turn this semblance of an idea into a laughably bad horror film that is bafflingly watchable despite being so utterly and completely rubbish.
Captain Sean Murphy (Gabriel Byrne) runs a sea salvage operation with a solid team [...]

The film begins with the shock statement – “1 in 4 Americans have a parasite. Many are deadly” – and this is where the shocks, surprise and anything resembling originality ends. Growth is a simple film that, despite a few good performances and a couple of nice scenes, is so dipped in its own self-importance [...]

Rob Zombie remaking Halloween in 2007 seemed sacrilegious, especially since many felt Zombie’s modernisation of John Carpenter’s classic was poor and needless. A sequel to a poor remake seems like an even more ridiculous idea, but here it is, Halloween 2, the apparent conclusion of Zombie’s opus. Why see it? You shouldn’t. It is bloody [...]

Horsemen of the Apocalypse is a fruit bowl of a movie. You will enjoy some of it, you will hate some of it, you will be massively indifferent to some of it, but essentially you’ll forget it almost instantly as you’ve seen it a thousand times before.
Detective Aidan Breslin (Dennis Quaid), expert in dental criminology [...]

Infestation is silly, funny, self-knowing, cheaply made and an immensely enjoyable giant bug attack film that is thoroughly entertaining throughout. Great fun.
The plot is blindingly simple – a job-shy slacker wakes up in his workplace entombed in webbing. Freeing himself, he finds the world is overrun by giant meat-eating bugs. Teaming up with an odd-ball [...]

Jennifer’s Body is well written and funny, but the lack of blood, tension, scares and menace will leave most horror audiences cold. It is an enjoyable romp without any real nastiness, a good time which says nothing interesting and does nothing amazing but certainly leaves a broad smile. It is a bouncy castle of a [...]

Last of the Living is a lot of fun. It is rigidly unoriginal and startlingly predictable, but because of its trio of amiable characters and a self-knowing silliness, it’s an genuinely enjoyable laugh-riot through zombified New Zealand.
Morgan and Ash are life-long friends, and have teamed together with loose-cannon ex-boxer Johnny to survive the zombie apocalypse [...]

Fletch is a child-punching fat clown who’s just been fired, Jimmy is a pathetic twit who’s just been dumped by his uber-bitch girlfriend. Both decide a trip to the countryside will improve their mood, but they stumble upon a cursed village full of lesbian vampires and their little vacation suddenly turns into a struggle for [...]

There is only one thing you need to know about this film – Loch Ness Terror is set in the town of Pike Island on Lake Superior. Yep. Not Scotland. If you feel the need to read on, please do, but that truly sets the tone.
Using the name of Loch Ness and injecting it into [...]

The title is better than the film. It smacks of such hilarious, shameless stupidity that you’re automatically endeared to the possibility of the amusing and audacious mayhem the name evokes. Tragically the film is simply boring, and could have been made better by a group of high school geeks with two camcorders, a locker room [...]

Ex NYPD cop Ben Carson (Kiefer Sutherland) gets a night watchman’s position in a massive burnt out department store (which – shock horror! – used to be a mental asylum). For a place the size of Buckingham Palace and extremely structurally unstable, this unfathomably bizarre job is only made harder by the building’s plethora of [...]

Monster Ark is ridiculous, but not in a good way. It is shoddily made, terribly scripted, blindly dumb and tragically dull. Even for a straight-to-TV movie it lacks depth, intelligence and charm. It is watchable, but only just.
The mad premise is this: in Biblical times there were monsters aplenty, demons and creatures of darkness, it’s [...]

“You’ll never guess what Esther’s secret is”. This is Orphan’s tagline, and it’s certainly true. Esther herself is brilliant – a very disturbed and disturbing young girl – but the film itself is a disgusting cliché and horribly disappointing.
Esther is a nine year old orphan, adopted by troubled couple Kate and John Coleman, and [...]

“There’s a lot of crazy shit in these woods”, Ricky the redneck utters, and I cannot disagree. Pig Hunt is totally insane, but in an excellent way. Violent, witty, pacy, a little confused but lovingly crafted, it is hard not to enjoy the carnage-filled madness on display. This is great, brutal entertainment.
John is going hunting [...]

Pontypool is original. It is rare a reviewer gets to utter those words in recent years, especially within the remake-crowded cliché-stack that is the horror genre, but Pontypool can boast this. It is smart, unique, tense, nasty and genuinely compelling. Only a saggy and tenuous finale lets it down, but Pontypool still comes out on [...]

Preview of Thirst
plus Q&A session with Writer/Director Park Chan-Wook
5th October 2009 – Curzon Cinema – 18:10

The Curzon Soho is an intimate cinema with a lot of charm and a real love of independent and foreign films – the walls ooze with an understated intelligence and adoration of movies that move, surprise and mean something. [...]

Donnie Darko was a cult classic that exploded out of nowhere in 2001, stunning critics and audience members alike – bold, clever, sexy and immensely enjoyable. No surprises then that a sequel has finally arrived, and no surprises either that it lacks the exciting punch the original whacked us with. Sadly, however, it barely even [...]

The Saw franchise is prolific if nothing else. This is the sixth Saw movie shunted out in what is undoubtedly the most popular series in the “horror-porn” genre. Saw VI is confused, didactic, slightly arrogant but definitely compelling. The death-traps are solid and reasonably inspired, but the pacing does drag when people are not screaming [...]

The title says it all and says nothing at all. There is a Shark in Venice. Unusual, yes. Exciting, no. This cinematic thrill ride is a boring, ridiculous, laughable mess that’s punctuated with pieces of action so confusing and stupid that the morbid enjoyment the audience gets from it is still no excuse for seeing [...]

Smash Cut is very strange – not Repo The Genetic Opera strange, not Visitor Q strange, but kooky strange in a way that is both disarming and charming. Some will find it schlocky and dribblingly inept, but it is fun, dipped in gore and has a very wry sense of knowing that holds it together [...]

Solomon Kane is tremendous fun. It’s about as cerebrally challenging as Saturday morning television, but it never tries to be anything but a great, violent, insane adventure, and it succeeds admirably.
Solomon Kane is an evil man. He murders without thought – for profit, for vengeance, for fun – and he’s damn good at it. It [...]

Sorority Row is a shameless slasher flick remake with a difference – it has some reasonable dialogue and likeable characters. Plot wise it is a simple case of a prolific serial killer clocking up victims on one single night, and although it’s about as inspired as a dog in a kennel, it’s surprisingly fun.
A mismatched [...]

Low budget often comes with the stipulation a film will lack quality, through either a lack of affordable talent, a willful despondency from producers seeking a tax-break or simply because no one wanted to fund it because the script is appalling. Occasionally a film comes along, however, that trashes that morbid expectance, and Splinter is [...]

Based on a true story. Five words that send shudders down my back when I read them. Rarely have I been impressed with a horror film claiming to be based on a true story, apart from the excellent lie that was the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Films like Wolf Creek just infuriate, but Stuck does [...]

The Broken is more idea than substance, more quiet contemplation than excitement, more a concept than a decent horror film. It is a bold effort but lacks any real punch and will leave many cold and wanting.
Gina McVey (Lena Hedley) is having a retirement dinner for her father when a mirror over the mantelpiece [...]

Normally the Wild West horror genre is reserved for dying franchise sequels like From Dusk ‘Til Dawn and Tremors, but occasionally films such as Dead Birds and The Burrowers attempt to inject originality into these wavering genre. Set in the 1879 badlands of the American Wild West, The Burrowers does a good job of making [...]

When The Butterfly Effect 2 beats its wings, it creates a tidal wave of dull, meandering and pointless nonsense that consumes anyone unfortunate enough to watch it. If you hated the original, loved the original or haven’t even bothered to watch the original, don’t even consider checking out the sequel. It is simply terrible.
Nick is [...]

A shocking mess of a film, in every single sense. The direction, the acting, the script, the plot, the lighting, the sound, even the catering was probably diabolical. It was honestly a struggle to watch this unimaginably terrible piece of filmmaking without turning it off and hunting down the creators with a pick-axe.
The “plot” is [...]

With Hollywood vomiting out horror re-makes so fast they forget to include anything even remotely original, it’s nice to see Britain continuing to take a stand on the originality front, bringing genuinely surprisingly, thought-provoking horrors to the screen. Quality of late includes Mum & Dad, Outpost and Eden Lake, the latter winning acclaim throughout the [...]

The Crazies is a brutal, enjoyable, cunningly nihilistic film, but it is derivative of the genre and sadly predictable.
Something is wrong with the residents of Ogden Marsh. The doctor’s noticed it, the town sheriff’s noticed it, the family burnt alive by their insane dad has certainly noticed it. And the army has noticed it, and [...]

In 2005, The Descent became a surprise sleeper hit for Dog Soldiers director Neil Marshall, propelling him into the world of big budget free reign films such as Doomsday and the forthcoming Centurion. Naturally, with all things popular, a sequel was destined to crawl out of the darkness and assault us. Nervous of all things [...]

If you’ve seen any of the Final Destination films then you’re in for literally no surprises with The Final Destination. Playing like a remake of all the other films before it, The Final Destination starts us this time at a crumbling car racetrack where a misplaced screwdriver starts off a devastating chain of events that [...]

The Road is a depressing, beautiful film, crafted expertly to portray a post apocalyptic America where hope is very hard to retain. It is slightly plot-less, but so well created and acted that it doesn’t matter. Grim, visually stunning and brutal, The Road is a film about clinging onto what is left of Humanity before [...]

The Thing is a masterpiece. It sits amongst the horror classics of the early 80s, standing tall alongside The Evil Dead, A Nightmare on Elm Street, An American Werewolf in London and Day of The Dead. It is a film that is still excellent today, barely dated, and is as shocking, terrifying and compelling now [...]

Directed by, written by, produced by and starring David Arquette. Words that may send shudders down the back of anyone who’s seen Eight Legged Freaks, any of the Screams or the Godawful TV series In Case of Emergency. The plot also yells of mediocrity – a group of hippy twenty-somethings travel to a free love [...]

Casey Beldon is being haunted, this is clear. Only when some of these nightly horrors start seeping in her reality does she realise something incredibly dangerous is coming for her, and nothing will stand in its way. Nothing but an ancient book, some shameless Exorcist plagiarism and the arrival of some people who can actually [...]

The Uninvited is the latest in a long line of Korean / Japanese horror films remade by idea-strapped film studios in the USA, stolen wholesale from their oriental counterparts. Ring, Dark Water, Grudge, Into the Mirror, even an actioner like Bangkok Dangerous was recently remade with a badly mulleted Nic Cage. Sometimes the films are [...]

The Wolfman is a series of expected vignettes lacking any originality or accomplishment. The characters are dull and humourless, the action swift and unrewarding, the effects unimpressive and boring, the story ancient and crumbling. In parts it may entertain, and the body-count is impressively high, but overall it’s a missed opportunity to retell a classic [...]

The X Files Season 1 is still as fresh as it was 17 years ago. Yes – 17 years ago! It was innovative, intelligent, scary, funny and endlessly watchable. Every episode was a triumph filled with intrigue, great dialogue and a real sense of purpose. Truly brilliant

The X Files – Season 2 is brilliant throughout, featuring some now iconic episodes and some really innovative ideas. The X Files is shut down, Scully is abducted and alien clones are discovered.

Thirst is funny, violent, insane, touching, brutal and beautiful. It is a superb piece of work from the visionary director of Oldboy and, rising high above the recent splattering of pop culture vampire flicks, proves that originality can exist amongst a severely over-saturated genre. This is a genuinely excellent horror film.
Priest Sang-hyeon (The Host’s Kang-ho [...]

The British horror genre has an unusual ratio of comedy-horrors vs serious horrors compared to the rest of the world. For every Descent and Eden Lake there’s a Shaun of the Dead or a Dog Soldiers to match it. Tormented sits uncomfortably in it’s own middle-ground, a kooky but uninspiring horror that fails to set [...]

Train is a film of two halves. The first half is interesting, gripping, intense, creepy and brutal. The second half gets lost in its own blood and guts, sloppily executing a lengthy, confusing finale that quickly becomes frustrating. Despite being enjoyable throughout, Train is a significantly damaged vehicle.
Train begins with a man being peeled alive [...]

Twisting, turning and smart for the initial thirty minutes and final half hour, Triangle suffers with a horribly predictable middle that sags incredibly. Without it, the film wouldn’t work, and the pay off is worth the trudge, but only just.
Troubled mother Jess (Melissa George) joins Greg and his friends on a sailing trip supposed to [...]

Undead is not your average zombie movie, but this is by no means a compliment. It is fun, but it is also stupid, bizarre, unscary and more than a bit senseless.
Rene (Felicity Mason) is leaving Berkeley fast. Her money has run out and she’s been forced to scarper her hometown and head to the city. [...]

Whiteout is a hugely predictable and occasionally dull thriller that smacks with a potential that it barely touches. Beautifully shot but terribly made, this is a waste of time and an ugly addition to the snow-bound horror genre.
Carrie Stetko (Kate Beckinsale) has quit her job as the most pointless US Marshal on Earth, having policed [...]

Wilderness is a harsh, nasty little horror film that, despite a number of weaknesses, is hugely enjoyable. It takes a simple premise and fills it with enjoyable characters and inventive turns that keep you engaged throughout. A decent British horror film that packs a brutal punch.
The plot is relatively simplistic – in a juvenile prison [...]

Apparently one Wrong Turn does deserve another. Much like that awful pun, Wrong Turn 2: Dead End is about as subtle as an axe in the crotch. It is insanely violent, surprisingly witty and a lot of fun. Occasionally it veers into being sickeningly ugly and knowingly predictable, but overall it is entertaining in a [...]

Zach Galligan is best known as being Billy Peltzer in Gremlins 1 & 2, but he’s also so much more. He’s acted in classics such as Waxwork 1 & 2, cameoed in Warlock 2 and Hellraiser 3 (wonderfully impaled with a pool cue), walked the boards on stage, starred in TV dramas as diverse as [...]

Zombieland is fantastic fun. It is a funny, bloody, silly road trip through a brilliantly realised post-apocalyptic America. There is little depth to it, it’s not saying anything particularly interesting, it’s just immensely entertaining.
Columbus is a loner, a geek who’s survived the end of the world by sticking rigidly to a set of rules (seatbelts, [...]