John Llewellyn Probert's House of Mortal Cinema

      It's that time of year when everyone seems to be producing lists, and as this is HMC's first year of being fully up and runnin...

What a marvellous surprise. Despite the tremendous promise of the trailer that was shown at this year’s FrightFest, I was still a bit un...

I don’t know what it is about me and the films of Jess Franco. A bit like a woman you know is bad for you but whom you can’t resist, the...

It’s time for a bit of class at House of Mortal Cinema. Thorold Dickinson’s film of Alexander Pushkin’s short story is something that ha...

This Australian rip off of SNAKES ON A PLANE should really be called SHARKS IN A SUPERMARKET and who knows, in some territories that dem...

     The opening caption ‘Based on true events’ seems to be de rigeur for many a horror film these days, and it’s all present and correc...

I picked up a DVD of this movie on a recent visit to the US, where, in an example of the schizophrenic attitude to censorship that seems...