by Dave Bradley | Dec 23, 2019 | DVDs, Reviews
Shock/Cinema Cult, Rated M, 80 minutes. (Flashback DVD Review) The original 1956 grandpappy of the ‘pod people’ sci-fi/horror subgenre, this beloved, film-noir-esque cult classic was directed by Don Siegel (before his collaborations with Clint Eastwood including Dirty...
by Dave Bradley | Nov 14, 2019 | DVDs, Reviews
Defiant Screen Entertainment, Rated MA. Prolific Canadian genre-specialising co-directors, co-writers, co-producers and co-stars Jen and Sylvia Soska (a.k.a. ‘The Soska Sisters’ and ‘The Twisted Twins’) have made a selection of infamous shorts (Dead Hooker In A Trunk,...
by Dave Bradley | Aug 1, 2018 | Books, Reviews
Peter Laws (Icon) 2018, 312pp, RRP$29.99 The Bedfordshire-residing Laws is a crime novelist, a massive fan of horror in all its forms (movies, novels, all the dark and frightening stuff in real life) and, somehow, an ordained Baptist Minister, and he’s made quite a...
by Dave Bradley | Jun 1, 2017 | Book, Books, Reviews
Ezekiel Boone (Hachette Australia) 2017, 328pp, RRP $29.99 Boone’s follow-up to last year’s The Hatching is equally readable, equally disturbing (especially for arachnophobics) and, it must be said, equally prone to padded passages and a sense of dragging-out the...
by Dave Bradley | Nov 26, 2016 | DVDs, Reviews
Bounty Films, MA, 85 Mins Maria Thayer (who’s had prominent roles in films like Hitch, Forgetting Sarah Marshall and State Of Play but hasn’t quite cracked real stardom yet) is the best reason to catch director Kyle Rankin’s dodgy zombie-horror comedy, as her funny,...
