Another week and and another Hollywood attempt at making a scary horror, and another ninety minutes of my life wasted. Which is a pity as in the hands of a more competent director this film could have been a roaring success.  

A great concept let down by so many major missteps.....

How can you have lived for so long and still not get it? This self obsession is a waste of living.

Only Lovers Left Alive is getting a special digital edition re-release courtesy of We Are Colony on Friday.  The film passed passed this reviewer by on its initial release so to mark its release o I thought I would give it a spin.  

I love vampires, and I love vampire movies, but over the years vampire movies have, sadly, devolved into repetitive exercises in the lowest common denominator let's make a vampire film.  Filled with bad acting, no understanding of makes a great vampire movie, or worse still turning the Princes and Princesses of the night into some teenage object of obsession.  You can probably count on one hand the number of vampire films in recent years that have any sort of merit.  

Which makes the fact, that a director not typically associated with horror, can produce a film that perfectly captures the essence of a great vampire film so perfectly just a little bit galling.  

Channel Zero, the latest horror TV show from the SyFy Channel has just launched, to mark the release of the new series, Ginger Nuts of Horror brings you not one, but two reviews of the opening episode.  Ginger Nuts' stalwarts Duncan Ralston and Joe X Young both take a look at the show, with very different view points about how successful the show was.  Read one for our special two-part review of Channel Zero  

After what seems life half a lifetime Reggie, Mike and Angus have finally made it through their battle through the dimensions and come home for their showdown.  The battle weary combatants look a lot older and a lot more ragged, hair is going; wrinkles are showing, and their eyes look a little bit deader than they did when we last had the pleasure of being in their company.  Which is rather sad as it is not just the cast that looks like they need to put their feet up.  Sadly Phantasm Ravager looks like it too needs to put its feet up and have a long rest in the nearest retirement home. 

​Some people have all the luck, whenever I go out exploring the countryside all I ever encounter is a bunch of unwashed locals walking their pit bulls and loads of midges.  What I would give to be picked up by a pair  of bisexual vampire ladies intent of having their wicked way with me before feasting on my special ginger blood.  

Which,  is exactly what happens in this remake of  José Ramón Larraz’s 1974 cult erotic chiller Vampyres.  In this lazy age of shoddy remakes and lazy sequels, one must wonder why the filmmakers decide on resurrecting this obscure but groundbreaking horror film.  ​