My love for horror, particularly supernatural ghost stories started young, very young. One of my favourite books to thumb through before I could even read very well, was The Hamlyn Book of Horror by Daniel Farson as the beautifully macabre illustrations would give me the heebee-jeebees; but I also couldn’t take my eyes off them! Somewhere […]
17 Best Movies of 2017
OK so look I’m not good at making these lists. I find this perhaps the one area of my life that I find incredibly difficult to make some decisions on things and run with them; cause as I reminisce on the movies of the year I start thinking about things I like, or even re-watch […]
THE GIRL WITH ALL THE GIFTS Blu Ray movie review
The Girl With All The Gifts is a solid zombie flick with some cool surprises, fresh perspectives and the guts to think about the big questions in it’s closing twist. Based on the best selling novel by M.R. Carey, The Girl With All The Gifts is directed by TV heavyweight Colm McCarthy, who is responsible […]
GIVEAWAY! Win 1 of 2 JIGSAW movie double passes
Do you want to play a game? A game where you’ll win an in-season double pass to JIGSAW – the next installment of the SAW franchise? Well, you’re in luck…just follow these simple instructions and you’ll be able to witness all the gore when JIGSAW is released in NZ Cinemas on November 2nd. Directed by […]
IT-ticipation: Freaking out about IT Movie rising soon
I’m calling it…currently the world is gripped in a roiling IT-ticipation, awaiting the release of the new imagining of IT set for NZ cinemas on September 7th. What’s not to love about the story of IT, especially for not-easily-scared horror fans like myself IT really has so much to offer and ticks all the boxes […]
SPLIT DVD movie review
M. Night Shyamalan is back and has used his ‘comeback‘ film to deep dive into the life and lives of a man living with DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder), played with superb chill by the chameleon that is James McAvoy. Is Split for you? Three girls are kidnapped and held against their will by a man […]
Stranger Things: 5 ways to make watching it better
By Kate “One Take Kate” Taylor Making something more epic is a standard by which the internet abides. To take something beloved and to supersize it, well let’s just say it’s very important to my people. When I saw Stranger Things I was enraptured by the 80sness, the dry humour, the touching moments, the attention […]
The Witch movie review
By Kate “One Take Kate” Taylor Image via As the season turns chilly and spooky in the evenings, I’m always on the crave for some good horror. Naturally I wanted to know if The Witch: A New England Folktale could live up to all the creepy things I’d heard from folks who’d caught it at […]
WIN: 1 of 2 copies of DEATHGASM on Blu Ray!
By Kate “One Take Kate” Taylor Brodie is the new kid in town. With a crack-addicted mum and an obsession with all things metal, he doesn’t fit in to his white-bread neighbourhood or with his religious relatives. But when he meets fellow metalhead Zakk he knows he’s found a mate for life. They form a […]
WIN! Dead Snow 2: Red Vs Dead on Blu Ray or DVD!
By Kate “One Take Kate” Taylor. Image via Mr Leon Taylor. If the worst day of your life consisted of accidentally killing your girlfriend with an axe, chain-sawing your own arm off, and watching in horror as your closest friends were devoured by a zombified Nazi battalion, you’d have to assume that things couldn’t get […]