The Spooky Hoot

When will Grave Encounters be released in the UK?

A friend of mine showed me the trailer for a film called Grave Encounters the other day, another one of those films that is shot in a documentary style to create that Blair Witch “is it real?” fashion. As much as I meet a lot of people who groan about these types of films consistently being made I have to say I do enjoy them. They are kind of becoming their own sub genre of horror and they always have More

‘Avoid the Remake #3 - ‘Quarantine’

Definitions –

· ‘REC'- a ground-breaking Spanish Horror movie made in the ‘shaky camera'vein.

· ‘Quarantine'– a very good American remake of ‘REC'except for one big problem…

As far as American cinema goes, remakes of foreign language films can be a very lucrative business. You take a good, solid story with plenty of imagination, couple it with a bigger budget, add oodles of CGIs and turn it into a blockbuster. Of course, this can sometimes go horribly wrong and you More

‘Avoid the Remake #2 - ‘War of the Worlds.’

There are certain things in life that YOU SIMPLY DO NOT do! Here are 3 quick examples –

1. YOU SIMPLY DO NOT ask for a new pair of shoes in a fish and chip shop.

2. YOU SIMPLY DO NOT buy a bikini hair removal kit for your grandmother.

3. YOU SIMPLY DO NOT create a remake of ‘War of the Worlds’.

Unfortunately, Steven Spielberg was totally unaware of these fundamental ‘wrongs'(or at least one of them) and that More

‘Avoid the Remake #1: ‘The Hitcher’.’

Back in the mid-1980s, everyone with a love of scary films had seen ‘The Hitcher’. It’s just the way things were; like using a bikini hair removal kit (if you were female) or wearing a ‘Frankie Says Relax't-shirt!

After its release in 1986, ‘The Hitcher'rapidly became a cult classic. Rutger Hauer had finally found his niche and all was well in the world of Horror. Until 2007 that is… when some ‘bright spark'decided to create a remake of this landmark More

‘The Genius of Doktor Caligari.’

If you thought that Horror movies were a modern idea, then you most definitely need to think again. They have actually been in existence for a whole lot longer than you would have imagined; right from the earliest days of cinema in fact!

‘Okay, but surely any vintage Horror flicks are not going to be any good….' Wrong again! Of course, there More