Buildings have memories. Houses, churches, hospitals, and hotels all hold echo’s of the past, reflections of events that have taken place between the four walls and when the walls talk often they tell tales of sadness, betrayal and fear.
Empire of Passion is only a horror film by way of technicality. Yes, there’s a murder, yes, there’s a ghost, but what it’s really all about is guilt. Set in a Japanese village in 1895, our protagonists are Seki, wife of the rickshaw driver, and Toyoji, local man-about-village and master of the lewd grin.
Welcome to yet another Blair Witch/Paranormal Activity subgenre tale of a TV Crew undertaking their series finale. Now you know some really spooky stuff is going happen, right? Right…?
When this horror anthology turned up on Love Horror’s doorstep I couldn’t wait to watch it. I’m a massive Romero fan, he makes an appearance to bookend the shorts, and if it was anything like the collection of short stories in Creepshow (1982) I knew I’d be in for a treat. How wrong I was.
Shown at this years FrightFest as a filler for Guinea Pigs which disappeared off the schedule at the last minute A Night in the Woods was by far one of the worst films I saw at the otherwise brilliant horror film festival.
High school is hard… In fact, somewhere between the raging hormones, social battles and educational pressure, it is a kind of Hell – a torturous prison that incarcerates, for six hours out of the day, unwilling teenage masses.
