by Dave Bradley | Oct 11, 2015 | DVDs, Reviews
Shock, MA, 99 Mins British cartoonist and graphic novelist Posy Simmonds’ Tamara Drewe (filmed by Stephen Frears) was a Thomas-Hardy-influenced attack on pretentious, snobby English types, and this movie version of another of her works heartily mocks both the English...
by Dave Bradley | Oct 11, 2015 | DVDs, Reviews
Shock, MA, 78 Mins This follow-up to 2013’s horror epic Contracted, which attempted to show how a zombie-cum-28-Days-Later-type virus could be created (and then left us hanging), is both grosser (with plenty of blood-spurting bites and goozy zom-festiness, as well as...
by Dave Bradley | Oct 11, 2015 | DVDs, Reviews
Shock, M, 88 Mins Indefatigable producer/director Roger Corman’s seventh of eight early ‘60s productions drawn from the works of Edgar Allan Poe, this is the best of the bunch, although that isn’t saying much as each and every one of them looks faded and creaky almost...
by Dave Bradley | Sep 2, 2015 | DVDs, Reviews
Shock, M, 87 Mins The first film properly directed by the late lamented Mario Bava (who also served as cinematographer and uncredited co-writer, as drawing from a novel by Nikolai Gogol), this low-budget but hugely influential and controversial-at-the-time (1960)...