My notes on Angel Angel Down We Go (Cult of the Damned) (1969) Among the poster taglines are ‘if you’re over 30 this is a horror story!’ After writing the hit Wild in the Streets, Robert ...
https://johnnyalucard.com/2024/04/13/film-review-angel-angel-down-we-go-cult-of-the-damned-1969/
My notes on Blackout (2023), which opens today in US cinemas and on digital platforms. Writer-director Larry Fessenden has been ticking off distinctive takes on major horror themes since The Fran...
https://johnnyalucard.com/2024/04/12/film-review-larry-fessendens-blackout-2023/
My notes on Scoop (2024) Remember the episode of The Larry Sanders Show where someone has the bright idea of making the backroom staff of the programme into regular characters and Jeanne Garofalo...
https://johnnyalucard.com/2024/04/09/film-review-scoop-2024/
My notes on The First Omen (2024) Mild spoilers. The flame of this franchise has flickered intermittently since Damien Thorn (Sam Neill) got backstabbed with a dagger of Meggido just after the Se...
https://johnnyalucard.com/2024/04/08/film-review-the-first-omen-2024/
My Sight & Sound review of Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire is online.
https://johnnyalucard.com/2024/03/30/film-review-godzilla-x-kong-the-new-empire/
My SciFi Now review of Late Night With the Devil is online.
https://johnnyalucard.com/2024/03/24/film-review-late-night-with-the-devil/
13 Exorcismos (13 Exorcisms) This opens with captions about the specific processes of securing and performing an exorcism in Spain and a claim that – as usual – this film is based on authenti...
https://johnnyalucard.com/2024/03/19/film-review-13-exorcismos-13-exorcisms/
A Million Days (2023) Out now digitally from Signature Mitch Jenkins directed The Show – and related shorts – from Alan Moore scripts. Here, he’s still working on a large cosmic canvas, i...
https://johnnyalucard.com/2024/03/19/film-review-a-million-days-2023/
Your Daily Dracula – Katt Williams as Dr Mamuwalde The House Next Door (2021) Deon Taylor’s Meet the Blacks (2016) was a parody of The Purge – which was at least zeitgeisty at the time of p...
FrightFest Glasgow review – Last Straw This opens with an all-night diner in the bleary light of early morning, with bodies on the floor and bloodstains on the jukebox … and a 911 call from c...
https://johnnyalucard.com/2024/03/10/frightfest-glasgow-review-last-straw/