Alix Turner

I’ve just finished watching Animal World, and my head is still spinning: damn, that was entertaining! Animal World is the story of Kai-Si (Yi Feng...

Overlord is a horror film set firmly in World War II, in which a group of American soldiers set out to destroy a German transmitter...

In this new film from director Isaac Ezban, parallel universes exist and four friends happen upon a method of visiting them. At least they’re friends...

I went to see Slaughterhouse Rules – sorry, Rulez – tonight, having seen posters showing what looked like the new Simon Pegg and Nick Frost...

This review of The Devil’s Doorway is a second opinion. You can check out an alternate perspective by clicking these words. I feel like I...

There is a scene in The Hate U Give when the predominantly wealthy white students at the main character’s school quit class in protest of...

I may like electronic or industrial music now, and I may have listened to little but Paul Simon as a kid, but the music of...

When I discovered an interest in found footage films a year or so ago, rumour told me that Stephen Cognetti’s Hell House LLC was one film...

1920 is the story of a young architect, Arjun (Rajneesh Duggal), who moves to an old stately home to measure it up and redesign it...

When Steven Sheil and Chris Cooke introduced One Cut of the Dead as Saturday dawned at Mayhem Film Festival, they told the gathered film fans...

I often don’t see the point of “modern takes” on old films, especially when the film in question is a true classic: have we run out...

In case there is some risk of confusion, Alive., which had its UK premiere at Grimmfest, is not a remake of the 1993 film about...

Pledge is about a group of bright but socially awkward young men, new to their university and trying to find a fraternity which they’d feel...

If you’re an ignorant Westerner like me, the title might lead you to expect a tongue-in-cheek film like Satan’s Cheerleaders, or a remake of Norman...

What self-respecting horror fan gets to middle age without seeing Re-Animator? This one, that’s who… well, not until this week when it was screened at...

Malevolent is an unusual beast: it was made in the USA, filmed in Glasgow, directed by a man from Iceland; it stars just a couple...

I won’t leave this to the end, I’ll tell you now: Await Further Instructions blew me away. I knew little of what to expect, past...

To lovers of the horror genre, Shirley Jackson is an American goddess, just as Edgar Allan Poe and H. P. Lovecraft are their American gods....

On the surface, The Judgement is a teen-oriented soap opera. It is set in the university of a modern city, a university which takes pride...

A Simple Favour is about Emily (Blake Lively) and Stephanie (Anna Kendrick): very contrasting friends who meet via their sons at the school gate. Stephanie...