The Studio and The Pig

The Black Cauldron (1985) Recently I have been in a huge fantasy zone. I discovered the fantastic ‘Once Upon a VHS’ podcast which deep dives classics of the genre from…

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Reappraisals and Grief

Event Horizon (1997) Sam Neil’s Pinheadesque transformation Grief is probably the most complicated emotion you can feel. You normally hear about love and how it can make you feel a…

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In Search of Darkness 1995-1999

Every horror fan has their favourites. Favourite kills, favourite final girl, favourite villain and favourite film. Lots of horror fans will most likely have a favourite era of horror too.…

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Netflix & Bills

I touched on this yesterday but in a seemingly classic example of being a little ahead/a little behind the news, today we’ve had the confirmation that Netflix have sealed a…

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Physical Media FTW

There’s a lot of things I dislike about being British. I mean a hell of a lot. I started typing them out and realised I’ll save it for another day……

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Sequel Sunday

Things normally come in twos, so the saying goes. I haven’t done a blog for a while and then two come along at once! The number two seems to have…

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The Witching Month/Hour/Season

There’s a line in Jurassic Park uttered by the immortal Ian Malcolm. “Life find a way”. It does and sometimes that way, is obstacles, challenges and generally a complete drain…

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Wooden in every sense

I put a post up on Twitter this week regarding some recent personal developments. I might write about it in more detail another time, but I really need to sharpen…

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