Digital Retribution

SBS Declares Zombie Season Open

Fri, 05 Now 2009 11:57:00 GMT +1100

The dead will walk – and sometimes run – on SBS as zombies take over the Monday night movie slot! The SBS Zombie Season kicks off on Monday November 9 and for five consecutive weeks viewers will be treated to Aussie zombies, rabid Spaniards, face-sucking aliens...[Read Full Article]

Silver Bullet DVD Review

Fri, 05 Now 2009 11:29:00 GMT +1100

Something's not right in Tarker's Mills, a sleepy town in Maine. A lot of stories start off with "something's not right" and, in this case, it's a gross understatement: murders of the grisliest kind are wracking the citizens with a palpable feeling of dread...[Read Full Article]

Fear The Clinic

Fri, 05 Now 2009 06:07:00 GMT +1100

Set in the late 1970's The Clinic boasts a fairly creepy premise: while traveling through rural Australia with her fiance a pregnant mother wakes up in an abandoned abattoir and discovers that her baby has been stolen...[Read Full Article]

Road Train Teaser and Poster

Thu, 05 Now 2009 20:40:00 GMT +1100

The past few days have been busy ones for Prodigy Movies, the makers of killer croc favourite Black Water. Yesterday they treated the world to a day on the set of their third feature film The Reef via a world first live web stream, and now a teaser trailer and new poster art for their second feature Road Train has surfaced...[Read Full Article]

Gothkill DVD Review

Thu, 05 Now 2009 09:48:00 GMT +1100

Andy Milligan may be dead, but his ghost can possess people, causing them to make substandard avant-garde films. The whole time I watched this I felt like I was watching something by the guy who gave us The Body Beneath...[Read Full Article]

Love Me Deadly DVD Review

Thu, 05 Now 2009 09:30:00 GMT +1100

There must be something wrong with me. I can't tell you why, but for some reason films about necrophilia hold a strange attraction for me, whether they're Buttgereit's splat-tastic NEKRomantik series, D'Amato's gloriously loopy Beyond The Darkness, even Kissed...[Read Full Article]

Antichrist Screening and Q and A at Popcorn Taxi

Thu, 05 Now 2009 05:06:00 GMT +1100

Popcorn Taxi will be hosting a special screening of the controversial shocker Antichrist followed by a Q and A with writer/director Lars Von Trier (live from Denmark) on Wednesday November 25 ahead of the films' November 26 theatrical release...[Read Full Article]

Eden Lake DVD Review

Wed, 04 Now 2009 11:38:00 GMT +1100

There's been a fair bit of hype surrounding this movie and it's all well-founded: Eden Lake is a very good film, taut, engaging and really quite nasty. It's paced tremendously well...[Read Full Article]

Frosted Nazi Zombies Set to Invade Rental Shelves

Wed, 04 Now 2009 11:08:00 GMT +1100

Nazi zombies, chainsaws, and oversexed Norwegian medical students. What more could you possibly want from a movie...[Read Full Article]

Creepshow 2 DVD Review

Wed, 04 Now 2009 09:12:00 GMT +1100

Director and regular Romero-collaborator Michael Gornick has tried to keep the spirit of the original film, and its comic book inspiration alive, but somehow the film feels a little flat and lacks the vibrant, lurid colour palette and, for the best part, the gruesome black humour of the original...[Read Full Article]

Storage DVD Giveaway

Tue, 03 Oct 2009 09:20:00 GMT +1100

Storage is now available to rent on DVD in Australia and thanks to Anchor Bay we're giving you the chance to win one of ten copies...[Read Full Article]

The Reef Streaming Soon

Tue, 03 Oct 2009 08:35:00 GMT +1100

It's been several years since talented Australian filmmaker Andrew Traucki delivered his incredible debut feature Black Water but he's now re-surfaced with what could be number two in a mooted trilogy involving humans and water-dwelling creatures that kill... ....[Read Full Article]

Saw VI Cinema Review

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:25:00 GMT +1100

By the time you get to the sixth instalment of a film franchise, it's unlikely that the creative well is going to be overflowing. Saw VI doesn't provide anything new but it refines some good ideas, provides a nice conclusion to the second Saw trilogy and gives us some pretty awesome traps... ....[Read Full Article]

Trick 'r Treat DVD Giveaway

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 12:30:00 GMT +1100

A dark comic celebration of the scariest night of the year from producer Bryan Singer and writer-director Michael Dougherty, Trick 'R Treat is now available to buy on DVD in Australia and thanks to Warner Home Video we're giving you the chance to win a copy... ....[Read Full Article]

Saw VI: Interview with Costas Mandylor

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 08:23:00 GMT +1100

Care of the distributors of SAW VI (Hoyts) expatriate actor Costas Mandylor found himself holed up on the 21st floor of Crown Towers in central Melbourne a week before its opening to talk to various media outlets... ....[Read Full Article]

Drive-In Cult Classics (8 Movie Collection) DVD Review

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:35:00 GMT +1100

Fans of obscure 1970s B-movies will be hard-pressed to find better value than that contained in Mill Creek Entertainment's 2-disk box set 'Drive-In Cult Classics,' currently available from Amazon for the princely sum of $6.99. The set features no less than eight R-rated efforts....[Read Full Article]

The Final Destination Cinema Review

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 08:48:00 GMT +1100

The kills are set up purely for the 3-D element: sure, they're cool, (anyway, it's the raison-d'être of a Final Destination movie for the deaths to be stylish and inventive), but I'd be inclined to say they only really work in the 3-D format....[Read Full Article]

Laid to Rest DVD Review

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 07:27:00 GMT +1100

The gore is fantastic. A small film like this shouldn't have effects that look so good, but it does. Some of the kills, particularly two 'knife in the head' gags, are executed with a massive amount of finesse, and look brilliant....[Read Full Article]

Actiongirls.com Volume 6 DVD Review

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 07:02:00 GMT +1100

If you've been lurking around this website, you've probably got a fair idea of what the Actiongirls schtick is. If you haven't, I can sum it up briefly, or in more detail, if you prefer. Briefly: chicks with guns. In more detail: super-hot boobalicious nekkid chicks firing real guns...[Read Full Article]

In the Sign of the Virgin DVD Review

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 10:12:00 GMT +1100

Danish debauchery. Nordic naughtiness. Scandinavian smut. Yes folks, it's time for another entry in the mid-seventies Tegn series...[Read Full Article]

Blue Velvet DVD Review

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 09:41:00 GMT +1100

A remarkable film in its fusion of a plot-based thriller, erotic drama, noir and surrealism. It's at the more conventional end of the Lynch spectrum, with its narrative moving in an uncomplicated linear direction, but there are some moments of seriously inspired weirdness...[Read Full Article]

The Machine Girl DVD Review

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 09:12:00 GMT +1100

The only serious thing about this film is the fact that it's serious fun. Despite the fact that it's dealing with a pretty serious subject, The Machine Girl is a gleefully gory revenge tragedy romp, which'll put a big old smile on your face...[Read Full Article]

Ogre DVD Review

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 08:11:00 GMT +1100

If you want to see an entertaining movie about ogres, watch Shrek. Like Shrek's description about ogres, this film had many layers, and all of them stunk...[Read Full Article]

Fear Itself: The Complete First Season DVD Review

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:15:00 GMT +1100

While as an experiment in creating short-film length horror, Fear Itself might not not have been 100% successful, at least it was still flying the flag for the genre, and for that at least you have to drop your pants in honour of what it set out to do...[Read Full Article]

The Box Giveaway

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 11:35:00 GMT +1100

The Box, from director Richard Kelly (Donnie Darko) and starring Cameron Diaz, James Marsden, and Frank Langella will be released in cinemas across Australia on October 29, and thanks to Icon Film Distribution we are giving you the chance to win one of 5 Double Passes... [Read Full Article]

The Butterfly Effect 3: Revelations Blu-ray Review

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 11:00:00 GMT +1100

Nothing spells cash-in like a direct to video sequel. Thankfully, this third go-round actually takes a new approach and plays out like a detective story, pitting our hero against a mystery surrounding the death of his girlfriend years before...[Read Full Article]

Dead Country: Australian Horror Classics Movie Festival

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 04:45:00 GMT +1100

For horror fans all over the country, it might be time to pack the bags and move to the sunshine state with Dead Country: Australian Horror Classics movie festival kicking off just before Halloween, and showcasing the very best of terror Australis...[Read Full Article]

The Exterminator DVD Review

Sun, 11 Oct 2009 11:33:00 GMT +1100

There are some gloriously exploitative scenes in this and implicitly (although this disc is cut; more on that later though) it's incredibly violent, sporting an exceptionally seedy atmosphere...[Read Full Article]

The Last House on the Left (2009) DVD Review

Sun, 11 Oct 2009 11:12:00 GMT +1100

If there were ever a film I did not think I would see remade, it would be this one: The Last House on the Left. The original, which was written by Wes Craven, and was itself a kind of a remake (based on the 1960 film Jungfrukallan by Ingmar Bergman) was banned in Australia for 28 years...[Read Full Article]

Jaws: The Revenge DVD Review

Sun, 11 Oct 2009 05:21:00 GMT +1100

You can just imagine some poor writer racking his brains to find some kind of vaguely-credible excuse to again have the same bunch of characters battling a rampaging great white, when in reality, the entire Brody clan would have moved to the Nevada desert by now.... [Read Full Article]

Man on Fire (2004) DVD Review

Sun, 11 Oct 2009 05:03:00 GMT +1100

Man on Fire suffers from Scott's later predilection towards rapid-fire editing, choppy cinematography and gratuitous flashiness but it is the sort of punchy, no-holds-barred revenge movie we don't see a lot of.... [Read Full Article]

Bruiser DVD Review

Sun, 11 Oct 2009 03:08:00 GMT +1100

A highly underrated film from one of horror's best and brightest, Bruiser is a film I reckon you oughtta have a look at, and if you have seen it, it's worth another look – and a re-evaluation... [Read Full Article]

Once Upon a Time in the West DVD Review

Sun, 11 Oct 2009 02:48:00 GMT +1100

Once Upon A Time In The West is the distillation of all of that. A commercial flop in the States when it was released, despite its stellar cast, auteur director and God among composers on the soundtrack , it was reviewed in one publication as, "Tedium in the Tumbleweeds"... [Read Full Article]

Vengeance is a Dish Best Served After Dinner

Sun, 11 Oct 2009 00:48:00 GMT +1100

Shakespeare's Macbeth tell Demona "Revenge is a dish best served cold!" Now take this and add it to the amount of times it has been referred to as sweet: Lord Byron in Don Juan says "Sweet is Revenge... especially to women." In The Iliad, Homer says "It (revenge) is sweeter far than flowing honey." And we come to only one conclusion: revenge is like jelly......[Read Full Article]

Hannie Caulder DVD Review

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 23:34:00 GMT +1100

On the surface Hannie Caulder is a standard revenge western, but having a female protagonist made it something of an oddity, and its core story can also be seen as a precursor to the rape/revenge movies that became more prevalent in the late 70s... [Read Full Article]

The Punisher (2004) DVD Review

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 12:50:00 GMT +1000

It's a film of fittingly grisly brutality and Thomas Jane's Castle is played without any hint of mercifulness. He's a nice guy against whom the most vile crime was committed – the murder of his family – and the revenge, however bloody or however over-the-top, never seems excessive... [Read Full Article]

Mad Max DVD Review

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 12:21:00 GMT +1000

Though it is now thirty years since it first hit cinema screens, Mad Max feels just as vital, thrilling and unique as ever. This futuristic tale of escalating vengeance between cops and bikers launched the careers of Mel Gibson and director George Miller... [Read Full Article]

Sheba, Baby DVD Review

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 09:02:00 GMT +1000

It is a PG rated blaxploitation film, which means punches are pulled, nudity is nixed and violence is much less vile. This film is definitely for the blaxploitation complete-ist only... [Read Full Article]

The Abominable Dr Phibes DVD Review

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 08:50:00 GMT +1000

Right from the get-go you know you aren't in for one of Vincent's more serious forays into horror, in this, his 100th film, what with his rather flailing, robed, Phantom Of The Opera-style performance at the keyboard and wind-up doll's orchestra... [Read Full Article]

Cape Fear (1991) DVD Review

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:40:00 GMT +1000

Martin Scorsese's remake of the 1962 J Lee Thompson picture with Robert Mitchum in DeNiro's role as psychopathic ex-con Max Cady is his best non-Mob picture after Taxi Driver and Raging Bull. Cape Fear is a strikingly intelligent horror film... [Read Full Article]

Black Sister's Revenge DVD Review

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 09:45:00 GMT +1000

Fanaka's genuine political agenda transcends the usual blaxploitation vibe in Black Sister's Revenge, given that it actually has some kind of philosophy behind it, raising more serious issues, despite being done in a way that still simultaneously fulfills all of the exploitation conventions... [Read Full Article]

The Wraith DVD Review

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 09:29:00 GMT +1000

With a cast full of celebrity relatives (which also includes Griffin – son of Ryan – O'Neal, and Clint Howard), a soundtrack featuring Billy Idol, Stan Bush and Robert Palmer, and more stonewash denim than you could poke a bogan at, The Wraith is a hilarious, deeply guilty pleasure... [Read Full Article]

Death Sentence DVD Review

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 07:33:00 GMT +1000

The novel Death Sentence is the sequel to Death Wish, and is actually another tale featuring vigilante Paul Benjamin, the literary character who became Paul Kersey in the 1974 film of the same name, but here, Death Sentence is more a remake of Death Wish... [Read Full Article]

Angel Of Vengeance DVD Review

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 06:00:00 GMT +1000

Critically mauled upon its original theatrical release in the States, Angel of Vengeance is a film that really didn't find its audience until video, and find that audience it did...with a vengeance! Sorry, couldn't resist... [Read Full Article]

Door into Silence DVD Review

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 07:25:00 GMT +1100

Slotting in at the lower end of the Fulci oeuvre, with some serious missteps with pacing and plotting making it a failure of a film, Door into Silence is nevertheless a very interesting failure that probably warrants greater assessment... [Read Full Article]

The Unborn DVD Review

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:16:00 GMT +1100

Wow! I have just had the pleasure of watching one of the greatest horror films I have ever seen. Well acted, great writing, some impeccable cinematography, creepy special effects and in general some fine filmmaking and it has stayed with me, and probably will for several days... [Read Full Article]

Invitation to Hell/The Last Night DVD Review

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 07:42:00 GMT +1100

Not to be confused with Wes Craven's 1984 made-for-TV effort of the same name, Invitation to Hell concerns a young woman who attends a fancy dress party at her friend's country estate. She soon discovers that a mysterious but supremely malevolent entity controls the house... [Read Full Article]

Requiem for Lost Horror and Cult Magazines

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 11:46:00 GMT +1000

Like most Australian families, traditionally my father would go to the local newsagency every Sunday to get the Sunday papers and would always bring me back a comic, except for the weekend after we had seen that Dracula flick. That weekend he brought me home something different... [Read Full Article]

Vinyan DVD Review

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 05:05:00 GMT +1000

Emmanuelle Béart and Rufus Sewell play Jeanne and Paul Bellmer, who lost their only child in Thailand after the 2004 tsunami. The couple have remained in Thailand for six months, emotionally destitute... [Read Full Article]