Bin Laden Does Not a Film Make…

Quite pos­sibly one of the most lacklustre attempts at a zom­bie film I have ever seen, Osom­bie is simply excru­ci­at­ing. Nut­shell: an idiot had the idea that Osama Bin Laden in zom­bie form would be hil­ari­ous. A feature-length story, or lack thereof, was writ­ten around this, present­ing the chap him­self for a hand­ful of minutes. The worst pos­sible reac­tion a piece of film­mak­ing can pro­voke in a viewer is that of utter bore­dom. Any fur­ther com­ments will merely reit­er­ate that there is little here to entertain.

 

Naila Scar­gill

 

Osom­bie: The Axis of Evil Dead is avail­able on DVD and Blu-ray from today

May 14, 2012 – 14:41 | By Lady E Terror | Posted in Appraisal, Disc | Comments (0)

Shadow Disappointingly Light

At first glance, Dark Shad­ows is fun. Dis­trac­ted by charm­ing set-piece and some lovely light­ing, it’s cer­tainly watch­able. But repeat view­ings? Abso­lutely not. There is very little to revisit, the over­all feel­ing that of wasted oppor­tun­ity. There is simply little story to be had. The cast as a whole is good — the only real excep­tion …

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May 11, 2012 – 18:53 | By Lady E Terror | Posted in Appraisal, Cinema | Comments (0)

Lincoln to Hunt Vampires on 20 June

Chan­ging its UK release to 20 June, to coin­cide with that of the US, Abra­ham Lin­coln: Vam­pire Hunter prom­ises an ori­ginal take on America’s 16th pres­id­ent, whilst bring­ing a fresh voice to the bloodthirsty lore of the vam­pire. Based upon the book by Seth Grahame-Smith, the film is brought to us by vis­ion­ary film­makers Tim Bur­ton and Timur …

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May 10, 2012 – 18:30 | By Lady E Terror | Posted in Of Interest | Comments (0)

August for Sam Raimi’s Possession

Pro­duced by Sam Raimi, The Pos­ses­sion is the ter­ri­fy­ing story of how a fam­ily must unite to sur­vive the wrath of an unspeak­able evil. When a young girl becomes obsessed with an antique wooden box pur­chased at a yard sale, her par­ents see little cause for alarm. But, as her beha­viour becomes increas­ingly erratic, the couple fear …

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May 10, 2012 – 15:39 | By Lady E Terror | Posted in Of Interest | Comments (0)

Horror at the Fantastic Films Weekend

Hor­ror has a strong show­ing at this year’s 11th Fant­astic Films Week­end, run­ning at Bradford’s National Media Museum from 15 – 17 June. Amongst treats on offer are a Cin­erama screen­ing of The Won­der­ful World of the Broth­ers Grimm;  a rare, re-edited print of Grind­house clas­sic I Drink Your Blood; an even­ing of giallo new and old; a Troma …

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May 10, 2012 – 00:04 | By Lady E Terror | Posted in Of Interest | Comments (0)

Frighten Brighton Classic Horror Fest

From the brains behind the Clas­sic Hor­ror Cam­paign comes Brighton’s new­est annual event, the Frighten Brighton Clas­sic Hor­ror Film Fest­ival. Put 11 August in your diary now. The one-day event cel­eb­rates hor­ror through the dec­ades, from the ter­ri­fy­ing story of obses­sion in Mad Love (1935), right through to the gory insan­ity of Phant­asm (1979). On hand …

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May 9, 2012 – 18:12 | By Lady E Terror | Posted in Of Interest | Comments (1)

Win: Séance – The Summoning

Claim­ing itself a ‘bloody, viol­ent des­cent into a hal­lu­cin­at­ory realm of macabre malevol­ence, demonic destruc­tion and pure, unadul­ter­ated ter­ror’, Séance: The Sum­mon­ing is avail­able on DVD now. Exquis­ite Ter­ror has cop­ies to give away, to those who con­tact info@exquisiteterror.com with the most inter­est­ing Ouija board experiences.

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May 8, 2012 – 13:57 | By Lady E Terror | Posted in Win Thyself | Comments (0)

Devilish Temptations

Based upon the eponym­ous, scan­dal­ous 1796 novel by Mat­thew Gregory Lewis, The Monk in filmic form will hold no such impact. An unusu­ally restrained Vin­cent Cas­sel is a pleas­ure to watch, as is some rich, sump­tu­ous cine­ma­to­graphy, but these factors are only just suf­fi­cient for sub­sti­tu­tion of a drawn-out story that begins to run out of steam …

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April 27, 2012 – 20:50 | By Lady E Terror | Posted in Appraisal, Cinema | Comments (0)

Playing With Dreamy House Ghosts…

One week on since fun and games at a paranor­mal invest­ig­a­tion… Per­haps it’s safe to talk about it now. Per­haps it’s not. Per­haps, even, a little of both. A group of hap­less journ­al­ists, myself included, were guided on an even­ing of ghost-hunting, by a dast­ardly pair from Haunted Hap­pen­ings, one of the UK’s grow­ing num­ber of …

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April 20, 2012 – 14:51 | By Lady E Terror | Posted in Features | Comments (0)

Psychic Puppetry

Com­ing from Anthony DiBlasi, the dir­ector of the excel­lent Dread (2009), I fully expec­ted a good time here. While lack­ing the more effect­ive ten­sion of an all-out psy­cho­lo­gical approach, favour­ing that of a thriller, Cas­sad­aga does slightly dis­ap­point — but I can admit this is more taste than anything. Regardless, for a first-time screen­play effort, enough …

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April 16, 2012 – 15:31 | By Lady E Terror | Posted in Appraisal, Disc | Comments (0)