The debut feature film from former visual effects artist Toby Wilkins is a surprisingly lean, no-frills affair that adds a few new wrinkles to the well-worn zombie film. Kai Barry and Ian Shorr’s screenplay doesn’t waste much time in setting up back stories or offering explanations and the film is all the better for that … Continue reading
Let’s not mince words here – this is a shockingly awful, no-budget, shot on (very smeary) video snooze-fest foisted onto an unsuspecting public bearing the new subtitle Paranormal Exorcism in a futile effort to align itself with Oren Peli’s hugely successful – and far better – Paranormal Activity (2007), with which it shares some narrative … Continue reading
Wes Craven’s alarmingly hit and miss career went back into the ascendant again when he tackled what at first sight appeared to be a most unappealing project. The slasher movie had largely been dormant for a decade and even its early 80s heyday had never really amounted to much more than a couple of bona … Continue reading
It took longer than anyone ever imagined for the fourth instalment in the Mad Max series to reach the screen, production being so interrupted by war and inclement weather conditions that they lost leading man Mel Gibson along the way. When Mad Max: Fury Road was finally released in summer 2015 it had been on … Continue reading
While preparing a week of reviews of Mad Max-inspired films ahead of the release of Mad Max Fury Road (2015), I came across a pair of very short “motion comic” pieces set in the world created by director George Miller. Mad Max (2010) A very brief (two and a half minutes) “motion comic” (extremely limited … Continue reading
As far as the vast number of Mad Max 2 (1981) clones go, this has got to be about the worst. Director Tonino Ricci (here using his usual pseudonym Anthony Richmond) was always one of the least talented of the Italian exploitation specialists – his back catalogue ran the gamut of genres favoured by the … Continue reading
One of the most tedious of the Italian Mad Max clones (and given the competition, that’s really saying something), Giuliano Carnimeo’s rock bottom addition to a cycle that was soon to outstay its welcome takes as much from Harley Cokeliss’ Warlords of the 21st Century (1982) as it does from George Miller’s Mad Max 2 … Continue reading
