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Stake Land

By Laurent ⋅ June 10, 2011 ⋅ One comment

In Stake Land teenage boy Martin (Connor Paolo) sees his whole family slaughtered by a vampire before being rescued by a rogue vampire hunter only known as “Mister” (Nick Damici), who takes him under his protection. As the world is succumbing to an unexplained vampiric epidemic and civilisation crumbles around them, they travel towards Canada, [...]

UNTITLED (2011)

By MarBelle ⋅ June 4, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

With access to the medical facility he’d created within a real World War 2 bunker for an interactive installation, Craig Murray took the opportunity to shoot some practice footage with a model. The end result is a grotesquely beautiful, horror lab performance piece, set to the sounds of Múm. Warning: As we’ve come to expect [...]

Bare Bones

By El Vez ⋅ June 4, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Fashion and horror collide in the glorious amalgamation that is Alex Turvey’s Bare Bones. BARE BONES from Alex Turvey on Vimeo.

Zombies | Chainsaw Maid 2

By MarBelle ⋅ May 27, 2011 ⋅ 2 comments

Super lo-fi with a charm that’s hard to resist, Lee Hardcastle has taken a break from his 60 second replays in clay to bring us horrific tales of Zombies and a Chainsaw Maid. And here’s the making of Chainsaw Maid 2

Double Trouble

By MarBelle ⋅ May 14, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Dan Gitsham’s reworked version of The Sack shows the horror of being in Double Trouble.

Trolljegeren (Troll Hunter)

By El Vez ⋅ May 8, 2011 ⋅ 3 comments

When I was young I developed two irrational fears, the first, bears, developed from a reoccurring dream I had. The second, trolls, originated from my dad’s feverish imagination and love of story telling. At an early age I was convinced under every bridge lived a troll ready to eat whoever tried to cross and it [...]

Rubber

By El Vez ⋅ April 12, 2011 ⋅ 5 comments

Rubber opens with a shot of a chair nestling in the wilderness of an unknown American desert, the following shots reveal more chairs spread randomly across a dirt track and a man waiting, holding numerous pairs of binoculars. Down the track comes a large American car which weaves its way towards camera, purposefully knocking down [...]

We Are What We Are DVD

By Si Sharp ⋅ April 6, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

When Jonathan Swift asserted the logic of cannibalism in his satirical essay A Modest Proposal, he suggested that the poor sell their children to the rich for food. In Jorge Michel Grau’s debut feature-length We Are What We Are the poor have already started eating themselves. This Mexican drama/horror focuses on a family whose principal [...]

DN SXSW2011: Kill List – Ben Wheatley

By MarBelle ⋅ April 2, 2011 ⋅ 3 comments

With his first feature Down Terrace, Ben Wheatley breathed new life into the hackneyed corpse of the British Gangster flick, so Kill List, his take on the horror movie, was always going to top my SXSW must see list. As it’s very possible I could bump into him back home in Brighton, I was overjoyed [...]

DN SXSW2011: Caught Inside – Adam Blaiklock

By MarBelle ⋅ March 20, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

How does the idea of a surfing holiday in the Maldives with no one around for miles except for you and your small group of friends strike you? Yep, sounds lovely, that is unless you happen to be on the boating trip created by Australian director Adam Blaiklock in his debut feature Caught Inside; a [...]