Have you ever contemplated the many shortcomings of zombie films? If the answer is a resounding “No!” then you’re probably doing better than I am. For years I’ve always liked Zombie horror, citing as some of my favourites a diverse collection from the Romero films (in particular Land of the Dead) and other more gore-oriented […]

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A new HMF member has started a review blog site and we thought it’d be nice to have a new source of reviews, so we will be posting his reviews here as well.
The Evil Dead
Ok, so I heard a lot about this movie, and today I decided to see it
Story: 7/10
Before I saw this movie I thought […]

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Walking out of the cinema last night, having just watched the awesomeness that is Piranha 3D, I stumbled upon a poster/flyer that proclaimed that the Prince Charles Cinema was going to be home to the GoreZone International Film Festival. A few clicks of google later, and sure enough, London is going to be home to […]

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Takashi Miike has tackled a lot of material, from a Japanese Western to schlock and splatter horror, and a whole world of tense dramatic finishes inbetween. The visual director has decided to take on an adaptation of a classical story, that of ritual suicide in olden Japanese society, using the medium of 3D. The preliminary […]

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Hoyte van Hoytema is a Swiss cinematographer who, in his first Swedish collaboration, helped create the stunning visuals and shots that made “Let The Right One In.” He has returned to Sweden for yet another film which as started strongly in Sweden and garnered some strong reviews from Dagens Nyheter, NST, and a few other […]

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Having just seen Piranha 3D at the cinema, a very strange sensation dawned on me. A sense of actual enjoyment. Sure, I’d seen Avatar, and a few other films in 3D. And yes, I’d even been to see the 3D show at Tokyo Disneyland. It wasn’t as though this was all new to me. But […]

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Allow me to begin by stating the obvious, just about all horror films are at least on some level going to be unrealistic. At some point, a 7 foot zombie with a chainsaw is not in your daily routine. You will not have to worry many days in your life about the woman in chains […]

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Horror to me comes in several forms, and pretty much always has. There is the horror that I own and rewatch when I’m bored or feeling a bit down, whose numbers are vast and whose subject matter vary. In this category I put my favourite schlock films, ranging from Jason X to Santa’s Slay. This […]

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Some of our more dedicated readers may remember the very first editorial this newsblog ever published, which you can see here. The article, a question about whether you liked your horror to be Nazi or Commie (as it were) was a fairly fun look at history and its subsequent juxtaposition in modern horror cinema. The […]

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Lars von Trier has shown his new film ‘Antichrist’ at Cannes film festival, and the press were not all impressed. Some were no doubt happy with it, but it has also managed to make a few reporters more than a little unhappy. And Von Trier is never one to shy away from such controversy, and […]

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