It will shock readers of our wicked and wonderful website to discover that there are actually people out there who don’t like horror.

Slapped straight on the sleeve of this DVD reads a marketing sticker stating that this film is “From the producers of SAW.” Expect exactly what you are thinking when watching this film.

Saw, in all its iterations, is shallower than a pygmy’s grave. Its cartoon implementation of violence is a one note, pornographic system that thinly veils its indulgent nature behind a feeble discussion of animal survival and ‘the evils of modern living’.

Imagine getting an invite to an exclusive party hosted by a mysterious millionaire, full of gambling and girls and where the rich and famous partied and your wildest dream would come true. You’d be a fool not to go? Unless of course, this was the plot of a horror film and, well, then you would [...]

Hostel, Saw, The Devils Rejects and now Borderland – all examples of the (relatively) new wave of torture horror, known to some as ‘Torture Porn’. It’s a strange genre, if you can call it that. most of the horror being in the drawn-out, gruesome suffering of the characters on screen before us. It’s horrible alright, [...]