FILM  REVIEWS

Below is a list of links to film reviews I have written. In the main, these have been written either for the now sadly defunct Splatterhouse (in which case they're reviews of films available on DVD) or posted at MHVF (in which case they're primarily films only available on the gray market). Recently I have begun writing reviews for Horror Express and in the near future some reviews will be published at Midnight Eye. Be warned that some of these reviews contain spoilers...

Japanese Cinema

AGITATOR (Takashi Miike)
AI NO CORRIDA (IN THE REALM OF THE SENSES) (Nagisa Oshima)
ALL NIGHT LONG (Katsuya Matsumura)
ALL NIGHT LONG II (Katsuya Matsumura)
ALL NIGHT LONG III (Katsuya Matsumura)
AUDITION (UK DVD) (Takashi Miike)
AUDITION (HK DVD) (Takashi Miike)
AVALON (Mamoru Oshii)
BABY CART TO THE RIVER STYX (LONE WOLF AND CUB PART II) (Kenji Misumi)
BATTLE ROYALE(Kinji Fukasaku)
BEAUTIFUL GIRL HUNTER (STAR OF DAVID) (Norifumi Suzuki)
THE BLIND BEAST Vs THE DWARF (Teruo Ishii)
BLUES HARP (Takashi Miike)
DEAD OR ALIVE II - BIRDS (Takashi Miike)
DEAD OR ALIVE: FINAL (Takashi Miike)
DRIVE (Sabu)
EVIL DEAD TRAP (Toshiharu Ikeda)
FULL METAL GOKUDO (Takashi Miike)
GEMINI (SOSEIJI) (Shinya Tsukamoto)
GUINEA PIG III: ANDROID OF NOTRE DAME (Kazuhito Kuramoto)
GUINEA PIG IV: MERMAID IN A MANHOLE (Hideshi Hino)
GUTS OF A BEAUTY (ENTRAILS OF A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN, BIJO NO HARAWATA) (Kazuo 'Gaira' Komizu)
GUTS OF A VIRGIN (ENTRAILS OF A VIRGIN, SHOJO NO HARWATA) (Kazuo 'Gaira' Komizu)
ICHI THE KILLER (Takashi Miike)
JIGOKU (Nobuo Nakagawa)
JU-ON: THE GRUDGE (Takashi Shimizu)
KAIRO (PULSE) (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
KUMAMOTO MONOGATARI (Takashi Miike)
LEY LINES (Takashi Miike)
NAKED BLOOD (aka SPLATTER)(Hisayasu Sato)
SHADOW OF THE WRAITH (IKISUDAMA) (Toshiharu Ikeda)
SHARK SKIN MAN & PEACH HIP GIRL (Katsuhito Ishii)
SHINJUKU TRIAD SOCIETY (Takashi Miike)
SHOGUN ASSASSIN (Kenji Misumi/Robert Houston)
A SNAKE OF JUNE (Shinya Tsukamoto)
SWORD OF VENGEANCE (LONE WOLF AND CUB PART I, LIGHTNING SWORDS OF DEATH (Kenji Misumi)
TRICK - THE MOVIE (Tsutsumi Yukihiko)
VERSUS (Ryuhei Kitamura)
THE WATCHER IN THE ATTIC (Noboru Tanaka)

World Cinema

AT MIDNIGHT I'LL TAKE YOUR SOUL (Coffin Joe/José Mojica Marins)
AVERE VENT'ANNI (BEING TWENTY) (Fernando Di Leo)
AWAKENING OF THE BEAST (Coffin Joe/José Mojica Marins)
LA BÊTE (THE BEAST) (Walerian Borowczyk)
BLUE MOVIE (Alberto Cavallone)
BLUE VELVET (David Lynch)
LA CASA DALLE FINESTRE CHE RIDONO ('The House with the Laughing Windows') (Pupi Avati)
CHOPPER (Andrew Dominick)
DAGON (Stuart Gordon)
DANCE WITH THE DEVIL (PERDITA DURANGO) (Alex de la Iglesias)
DELIRIUM (Renato Polselli)
THE DRILLER KILLER (Abel Ferrara)
EROTIC RITES OF FRANKENSTEIN (Jess Franco)
FEMALE VAMPIRE (LES AVALEUSES, EROTIKILL, THE BARE BREASTED COUNTESS, etc) (Jess Franco)
FLAVIA THE HERETIC (Gianfranco Mingozzi)
FOUR OF THE APOCALYPSE (Lucio Fulci)
HAUTE TENSION (Alexandre Aja)
HENRY: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER (John McNaughton)
IRRÉVERSIBLE (Gaspar Noé)
THE LICKERISH QUARTET (Radley Metzger
MARK OF THE DEVIL (Michael Armstrong/Adrian Hoven)
MOUNTAIN OF THE CANNIBAL GOD (PRISONER OF THE CANNIBAL GOD (Sergio Martino)
NIGHTMARE CITY (CITY OF THE WALKING DEAD) (Umberto Lenzi)
NIGHTMARES COME AT NIGHT (Jess Franco)
NIGHT TRAIN MURDERS (Aldo Lado)
NOSFERATU (Werner Herzog)
LES POSSÉDÉES DU DIABLE (LORNA THE EXORCIST) (Jess Franco)
SCREAM... AND DIE (THE HOUSE THAT VANISHED) (José Larraz)
LA SETTIMA DONNA ('The Last House on the Beach') (Franco Prosperi)
SEXY NIGHTS OF THE LIVING DEAD (EROTIC NIGHTS OF THE LIVING DEAD) (Joe D'Amato/Aristide Massaccesi)
THE STENDHAL SYNDROME (Dario Argento)
SYMPTOMS (José Larraz)
A TALE OF TWO SISTERS (Ji-woon Kim)
THIS NIGHT I'LL POSSESS YOUR CORPSE (Coffin Joe/José Mojica Marins)
TROUBLE EVERY DAY (Claire Denis)
VAMPYRES (José Ramon Larraz)
ZEDER - VOICES FROM BEYOND (Pupi Avati)