Alix Turner

The atmosphere is everything in La Funeraria (known as The Funeral Home or The Undertaker’s Home in some countries). Right from the start, with the...

I enjoyed Let’s Scare Julie a lot more than I expected. The publicity information gave the impression of a modern story about inane bimbos and...

Several years ago, the horror film festival world fell for Colin, the micro-budget zombie film. Last year, Nightshooters had us jumping and laughing equally. This...

Broil is an odd one. Directed by Edward Drake and written by Drake with Piper Mars, it doesn’t seem to know whether it’s about the...

Films with two distinct halves can be tricky: Will the pace be maintained? Will the story make sense? Will the audience still know who to...

Nearly thirty years ago, I watched a film by a brand new director about gangsters regrouping after a job gone wrong, with glimpses of the...

Dangerous to Know is a wannabe noir thriller, styled after the director’s David Fincher favorites. David Simpson – better known as a sci-fi novelist –...

I must confess I hadn’t come across the 1960s sci-fi horror The Brain that Wouldn’t Die until I heard that a satirical homage-style remake was...

In Held, we meet Emma and Henry Barrett (Jill Awbrey and Bart Johnson), a couple whose marriage has clearly hit a rocky patch after nine...

Synchronic is a film that I’ve been looking forward to since I first heard about it just over eighteen months ago, infatuated as I am...

The long-anticipated Saint Maud is one of the best new horror films I’ve seen this year; and in case you didn’t know, I’ve seen a...

Chop Chop, the directorial debut from Rony Patel, opens with police on the lookout for a killer who likes to remove his victims’ heads. We...

When I watched Blue & Malone with my son the other day, he asked me why it was included in a horror film festival programme....

Rent-A-Pal is odd, no getting away from that. I like and admire odd films, but figured it’s best to warn you: although it’s billed as...

I came to The Unhealer for Lance Henriksen and Natasha Henstridge, and I stayed for the story. The core of the plot – tables being...

I’m afraid I don’t have much to say about The Deep Ones. Written and directed by Chad Ferrin, inspired by the writings of H.P. Lovecraft…...

Don’t you just hate it when you plan the perfect evening, but then someone you didn’t invite – deliberately – turns up with one of...

Unearth presents two established farming families, colleagues for generations, though now both struggling. The Dolan family, led by Kathryn (Adrienne Barbeau, The Fog), sees some...

I’m not sure why, but I was expecting something a bit like Society when I read the description “Fatal Attraction meets The Blob”, as The...

With a trailer full of everything, ready for a fresh start following the death of her husband, Jessica finds herself first aggravating a gruff stranger...