British cinema – Page 6

October 22, 2015

The Quiet Ones

The Quiet Ones, Hammer’s follow up to the phenomenally successful The Woman in Black, is a similar but distinct affair.

October 12, 2015

The Last Passenger

You’ve got to admire the chutzpah of attempting to remake Speed on a British Rail commuter train to Tunbridge Wells and in many ways The Last Passenger does it rather well.

Aneurin Barnard gets the night bus blues in Citadel

September 10, 2015

Another in the ‘tower block terror’ sub-strand of films (see also Tower Block, The Raid, Attack on the Block), an off-shoot of the ‘hoodie horror’ movies which seem primarily composed to work up writers for The Guardian into a state of apoplexy.

August 11, 2015

Heretic

Heretic is the latest priest-sploitation film to cross my path, a no-budget 2012 release which generated a number of plaudits among genre aficionados when it played on the festival circuit and was released on DVD.

August 8, 2015

In Fear

It’s one of the oldest ideas for a horror film there is: getting a couple of characters who have a less than perfect relationship, shutting them in a car in the middle of nowhere and then pitting them against a psychotic killer.

July 25, 2015

The Haunting of Harry Payne

The Haunting of Harry Payne, aka Evil Never Dies, is a film that’s been bubbling around for several years before eventually dribbling onto DVD

Yes, there's lots of running around in underground bunkers in Outpost 3

July 22, 2015

Outpost: Rise of the Spetsnaz

The 2007 film Outpost was a neat Nazi zombie flick that received generally positive reviews and did very well on DVD. Outpost: Rise of the Spetsnaz isn’t…

The Wild Eye

Category: British cinema