FrightFest review – The Waterhouse Written and directed by Samuel Clemens, this is an impressionist, elliptical take on the crooks-run-into-a-curse sub-genre – with impressive sound design, s...
https://johnnyalucard.com/2023/10/27/frightfest-review-the-waterhouse/
My Financial Times article about The Horror Show, an exhibition at Somerset House, is online.
https://johnnyalucard.com/2022/11/13/exhibition-the-horror-show/
My notes on Halloween Ends This is more a case of ‘where to start?’ than ‘where to finish?’ The Halloween franchise has always had problems – basically, John Carpenter’s 1978 film h...
https://johnnyalucard.com/2022/10/21/film-review-halloween-ends/
My notes on Radio Parade of 1935 (1934) In 1934, this must have been an ambitious prestige effort for the British film industry – with a host of stars, many from rival mediums like radio and mu...
https://johnnyalucard.com/2022/03/11/film-review-radio-parade-of-1935-1934/
My notes on Punisher War Zone (2008) This third stab at a Punisher movie takes the Incredible Hulk route of following up the last film (Jonathan Hensleigh’s The Punisher) but pointedly not bein...
https://johnnyalucard.com/2022/02/02/film-review-punisher-war-zone-2008/
My notes on Dracula 2012 (2013) Dario Argento isn’t the only filmmaker to get a 3-D Dracula on the market. Malayalam writer-director Vinayan’s contemporary reworking was made in in Kerela, ...
https://johnnyalucard.com/2020/10/29/film-review-dracula-2012-2013/
My brief notes on Lucky (2020) Directed by Natasha Kermani (Imitation Girl) and written by star Brea Grant (12 Hour Shift), this looks like a conventional slasher movie but is actually a surreal ...
https://johnnyalucard.com/2020/10/25/frightfest-review-lucky-2020/
My notes on Scoob!, which is out on BluRay. I love the slogan (‘mystery loves company’) for this new animated spin on the long-standing Scooby-Doo franchise and also that it uses the original...
My notes on Av (The Hunt) This opens as if Psycho were an action movie – Ayse (Billur Melis Koç) is in a room with her lover, when the cops come in and kill him, and she has to go on the run f...
https://johnnyalucard.com/2020/08/31/frightfest-review-av-the-hunt/
I’ve written a piece for Network Distributing about their Ten Best Horror DVD/BluRay Releases of the 2010s.
https://johnnyalucard.com/2019/12/14/ten-best-network-horror-releases-of-the-2010s/