THIS TIME on Torments, Dan looks at a listless bore. By the time the mid-90s rolled around, the twin concepts of ‘tude and edge reigned supreme in the pop-culture consciousness. Characterised by a flagrant...
IN THE FIRST of an ongoing retrospective examining the forgotten classics of the ‘talkie’ era, Mike looks at a ghoulish ground-breaker. “Laughter and sin! Laughter and sin!” An understated gem in the career of...
In this week’s Breaking Down the Backlog, I tactically dismembered hundreds of aliens with mining equipment and was scared to death. Dead Space is an interesting game to play. It was first released back in...
THIS TIME on Torments, Dan wanders where the sun don’t shine. The direct-to-video market is dominated by horror. There’s a simple reason for this: Horror movies, by design, rarely require inflated budgets or star-studded...
THIS TIME on Torments, Dan takes a look at an all-time classic. The badness of Troll 2 is legendary in contemporaneity. Its infamy among the bad-movie-loving community (we’ll call them ‘shitslaves’) is legion. For shitslaves like...
GET OUT drew a large amount of commentary when its trailer was released. Many looked at the racial overtones and whether or not a simple binary would be enough to terrify audiences. With increasing acclaim...
THIS TIME on Film Torments, Dan finally gets round to a Fuck You it’s January film if ever he saw one. There are a variety of definitions for ‘cult film’, but most revolve around...
IN THIS WEEK’S Torment, Dan examines what happens when an auteur and a studio clash over madness. Michael Mann, to this day, remains one of the most interesting directors to still be making a...
CONCLUDING Horror Month at Film Torments, Andrew takes a look at an outing by a music video director stepping up to feature films. What could go wrong? What happens when you mix a robotic...
THIS TIME on Torments’ 2Spooky4U Halloween Month, we look at the fourth entry in a beached whale of a horror franchise. Why the fourth? It was the one on Netflix. If I had to choose,...
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