Tag Archives: Scream

DVD review | Detention – Quirky teen horror comedy is too cool for school

Posted on 18 August 2012 by Jason Best

The Breakfast Club meets Scream in self-consciously quirky teen horror comedy mash-up Detention – with elements of Freaky Friday, Donnie Darko and a string of other cult movies thrown into the pot too as sassy misfit Riley (Shanley Caswell) tries … Continue reading →

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13 reasons to watch Friday the 13th

Posted on 13 November 2009 by Beth Williams

Couch Potato Pickings You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video 1. A group of teenagers get picked off by a killer at a lake where a young boy, Jason Voorhees, drowned years earlier. This 1980 … Continue reading →

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Pete’s Peek | Skins meets Scream in Tormented

Posted on 27 September 2009 by peter

Being a fan of revenge movies, especially ones where the bullied school outsider gets to kill off their classmates in gruesome fashion (à la the 1974 classic Twisted Brain), I was looking forward to this homegrown horror. And I wasn’t … Continue reading →

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The Best view | The Happening is a non-event: Has M Night Shyamalan lost the plot?

Posted on 4 November 2008 by Jason Best

What has happened to the career of M Night Shyamalan? Less than a decade ago, after the shock success of The Sixth Sense, the Indian-born, Philadelphia-raised director was being spoken of in the same breath as Spielberg and Hitchcock as … Continue reading →

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