In my article about the Worst Horror Movies of 2015 (you can read it here), I included Quentin Tarantino’s THE HATEFUL EIGHT. Looking back at it, I may have been overly harsh. A second viewing showed it wasn’t as bad as I first thought. Tarantino was looking back at all those old Western TV shows, … Continue reading →
Posted by anythinghorror on 2015-11-24 · 4 Comments
Because I’m a writer, I’m also a shameless self-publicising exhibitionist, so I will take every appropriate opportunity to hawk my work or work in progress. At the moment, it’s the latter, a novel 90% completed, about a teenage cowgirl battling a murderous Skinwalker in 1895 Manchester (and yes, I will be looking for any kind … Continue reading →
Category Deggsy's Corner, Movie Reviews, New Horror Releases, New Posting · Tagged with Bone Tomahawk, David Arquette, Evan Jonigkeit, Kurt Russell, Lili Simmons, Matthew Fox, Patrick Wilson, Richard Jenkins, S. Craig Zahler, Sid Haig
Posted by anythinghorror on 2015-10-30 · 1 Comment
I’ve seen the billboards for this 10-part series on the UK’s ITV channel on my way to work more than once, but never really gave it much consideration, despite the obvious horror connections. Why? Because Robert Louis Stevenson’s story of Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde has been done to death almost as much as Frankenstein, … Continue reading →
Category Deggsy's Corner, New Horror Releases, New Posting, TV Horror · Tagged with Ace Bhatti, Amit Shah, Charlie Higson, Christian McKay, Donald Sumpter, Enzo Cilenti, Jekyll and Hyde, Lolita Chakrabarti, Mark Bonnar, Michael Karim, Natalie Gumede, Natasha O’Keeffe, Oliver Gilbert, Phil McKee, Richard E. Grant, Ruby Bentall, Stephanie Hyam, Tom Bateman, Tom Rhys Harries
Posted by anythinghorror on 2015-10-28 · 1 Comment
Sometimes, less is more. A writer can find themselves overloading a plot with far too many characters, too many subplots and convolutions and beginnings and endings and bloody hell Peter Jackson what the flip was up with the nine endings to the Lord of the Rings saga anyway? Ahem. Yes, Less can be More. A … Continue reading →
Category Deggsy's Corner, Movie Reviews, New Horror Releases, New Posting · Tagged with Anthony DiBlasi, Austin F. Schmidt, J. LaRose, Joshua Mikel, Juliana Harkavy, Natalie Victoria, Sarah Sculco, The Last Shift
Posted by anythinghorror on 2015-10-21 · 1 Comment
One of those near-forgotten movies from my childhood was BLOOD BEACH (1980), with John Saxon and Burt Young as cops trying to work out why people are disappearing under the sands of their local beach (hint: it was a monster that wanted to be a TREMORS Graboid but the budget made it look more like … Continue reading →
Category Creature Flicks, Deggsy's Corner, Movie Reviews, New Posting · Tagged with Alex Greenfield, Ben Powell, Brooke Butler, Cleo Berry, Cynthia Murell, Dean Geyer, Hector David Jr., Isaac Gabaeff, Jamie Kennedy, Mitchel Musso, Nikki Leigh, The Sand