[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B002QW2ODQ][/pullquote] The term 'video nasty' became common place in the UK in the early 1980s. Commentators like Mary Whitehouse pushed for certain films to be banned from distribution due to obscenity or extreme violence. Films that were released in the cinema were … [Read more...]
Review: Scream 2 (1997)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B004UGALGI][/pullquote] After the success of Scream, everyone was expecting a sequel. And, just one year later, Scream 2 was released. It opened to rave reviews and an even bigger box office return than the original. They began work on Scream 2 while the first Scream … [Read more...]
Review: The Blair Witch Project (1999)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B003YXZH5S][/pullquote] Horror as a film genre, can be broken down into many sub-genres. It could be Science-Fiction-Horror, Slasher-Horror or Torture-Porn-Horror to name but a few. One of the most recent additions to the sub-genres is the ˜found footage horror' … [Read more...]
Review: Paranormal Activity 3 (2011)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B005A5YYUM][/pullquote] In March 2005, Katie (Katie Featherston) discovers a box of videotapes belonging to her grandmother that she leaves in her sister Kristi (Sprague Grayden) basement. The next year, after a burglary the tapes are stolen. The audience is then … [Read more...]
Review: Psycho (1960)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B003BEDT78][/pullquote] Alfred Hitchcock is one of the most influential and culturally significant directors of all time. His canon of work, including classics such as North by Northwest, Rear Window and Vertigo are still held in high regard decades after they were … [Read more...]
Review: Paranormal Activity 2 (2010)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B004EMS0XO][/pullquote] Paranormal Activity was a sensation upon release in 2009. Off a shoe-string budget of $15,000, Oren Peli was able to create a terrifying ˜found footage' film that drew on the mega-success of The Blair Witch Project and move the horror zeitgeist … [Read more...]
Review: Night of the Living Dead (1968)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B002KAIW4E][/pullquote] Zombies are as synonymous with horror films as any creatures you can think of, but this wasn't always the case. Before 1968, zombies were often the product of voodoo magic, in fact the modern term Zombie derives from the Haitian Creole term … [Read more...]
Review: The Orphanage (2007)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B0019GJ3ZM][/pullquote] The Orphanage (El Orfanato to give it its Spanish title) is a horror film presented by horror aficionado and all-round fantasy legend Guillermo Del Toro. As part of his plan to seemingly force through a horror film revolution in … [Read more...]
Review: Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark (2011)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B007C17YLI][/pullquote] Secretly, most loath being stuck in the dark, no matter how old or young. Guillermo del Toro takes the audience back to childhood with memories of monsters under the bed in his version of Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark. Children of the past and … [Read more...]
Review: Alien (1979)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B006MGB31Q][/pullquote] One must wonder what crossed the mind of Nobel Winning Edward Teller when he developed his thermo-nuclear bomb, after all it's not like the atomic bomb failed in its simplistic remit of blowing shit up. Clearly though; there comes a time when … [Read more...]