Film Torments: Cannibal Holocaust (1980)
THIS week on Film Torments’ Month of Misery, we take a look at one of the original Video Nasties. Cannibal Holocaust is one of those films where the legend precedes the picture. Believed by...
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Film Torments: A Serbian Film (2010)
THIS week on Film Torments’ Month of Misery – you might have heard about this one. Many words have been used to describe Srdjan Spasojevic’s A Serbian Film. Disgusting, extreme, horrifying, even – according...
Film Torments: Threads (1984)
FOR AUGUST, Film Torments is going to be a little different: instead of reviewing films which are low-quality and ineffective, we’re looking at quality films which are particularly difficult and distressing to sit through. To...
Review: Batman: The Killing Joke – An underwhelming yet passable adaptation
FULL, weeping spoilers ahead. Consider yourself warned. IT’S FINALLY time, once again, for a graphic novel by Alan Moore to be adapted to film. Not that you’ll ever see the infamous curmudgeon’s name in...
Film Torments: The Cobbler (2014)
THIS WEEK on Film Torments, Dan takes a look at yet another Adam Sandler bomb. You wouldn’t be blamed for assuming that we like to pick on Adam Sandler at SCM, but the reality...
Only in the 70s: Starcrash (1979)
RETURNING to the decade of flairs, perms and nationwide blackouts after a lengthy hiatus, Dan examines one of many sci-fi travesties that scrambled to fill the demand from a certain blockbuster. You might have heard...
Review: Tale of Tales – A gorgeous vision of Giamattista Basile’s dark classics
ADAPTED from the works of the Neapolitan poet, courtier and folklorist Giamattista Basile (c.1565-1632) principally, his Lo Cunto de li Cunti, overo trattenemiento de peccerille- The Tale of Tales, or entertainments for the little ones,...
Film Torments: V/H/S: Viral (2014)
THIS WEEK on Torments, George has a stab at an anthology that, inexplicably, made it to three instalments. Let it never be said that I don’t suffer for my art. I have now sat...
Film Torments: Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016)
THIS WEEK, Rich brings a conclusion to his look at Tim Burton’s horrific Alice universe with the most recent entry in the history of Torments. This has been a summer of sequels. Some have...
The Canon of Cannon: The Breakin’ Trilogy
THE CANON of Cannon is a feature where we take a wandering look at the backlog of world-renowned trash peddlers, Cannon Films, and the work they left behind. This time, we examine the enduring cult appeal of three...
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