Happy New Year, my fright friends. Did you have a lovely magical beautiful Christmas holiday? You did?….You disgust me! Luckily, I’m back with another wretched review from the darkness to address the balance. So why not start off this year with a humdinger of a horror; trashy slashy Chelsea Films production, ‘The Watermen’.

Anna Merchant seemingly has it all: good looks, a great teaching job, some sassy sex in the city style friends and a hunky boyfriend who wants to spend the rest of his life with her.

We have spoken a lot on this website about censorship, and nigh on 100% of the time you will find our rabid rage driven reviewers come done on the side of the movie, defending the director and deriding the censors.

Most of the horror films associated with the explosion of the genre as we know it today have been done to death.

Now I know what you’re thinking my cine-literate well educated horror loving readers. With a film called Maniac Cop there are two things that you must expect. One is a cop who is a maniac, and the second is a film that is as gory and entertaining as it is completely stupid.

Ever seen the movie Zodiac? I bet a number of you are furiously nodding your heads, but I’m referring to, specifically, the 2007 incarnation. If you’re still agreeing then you have my platform; my foundation for which I judge every serial killer biopic ever made post or pre-Zodiac.