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For those unfamiliar with the expanding Devil’s Advocate’s book series, they selects a well known genre film and assign a writer to deconstruct and analysis it. To date they have covered Let the Right One In, Witchfinder General, Saw, The... Read more
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Plot A grieving young couple hear a loud knock on their door in the dead of night and decide to open it…well you would, wouldn’t you? Review Milo Ventimiglia (The Divide and TV’s Heroes) and Sarah Shahi play Jonathan and Addie Dade, a couple... Read more
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Writer/director Bradley Scott Sullivan, here making his directorial début, came up with the idea for I Didn’t Come Here to Die, a film about volunteers, rather unsurprisingly, from being a volunteer himself. The organisation Sullivan was... Read more
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Take a little bit of Hitchcock’s Strangers on a Train and a dash of Single White Female and you’ve got Kill for Me, a film where ‘originality’ takes a break and allows ‘derivative’ to stand in, making for a... Read more
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Amongst the wodge of films that bypass a theatrical release and go straight to the home retail market there are often overlooked gems that word of mouth and reviews weed out from the dross. Such dross that goes straight to retail tend to be... Read more
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Written off upon its initial theatrical release as a Welsh spin on Robin Hardy’s The Wicker Man (1973), Darklands is actually a lot of fun in a dumb sort of way. Aside from the afore-mentioned The Wicker Man, Darklands also readily cribs from... Read more
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Upon its release Chernobyl Diaries was not screened in advance for critics. This practise normally indicates that the distributors know that their film is a stinker. However regardless of this and the associated controversy the film courted it... Read more
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Young attractive Martha Schmidt has opted out of living in Los Angeles and upped sticks to live with her fella Jim (Doug Barr) on a Pennsylvania farm. Her closest neighbours are the Hittites, similar to the Amish in their choice to farm the... Read more
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Dr. Edward Pretorius (Ted Sorel) and his assistant Dr. Crawford Tillinghast (Jeffrey Combs) have been working on a device called the Resonator that is designed to stimulate the pineal gland and expand human perception. In doing so they end up... Read more
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David Cronenberg’s Scanners made a huge impression upon its initial cinema release on this once impressionable reviewer. From the iconic poster image of Michael Ironside to stills in horror film magazines of the key effects shot – the head... Read more
