Joe Jones

British fantasy horror film Howl was shown in Nottingham as part of the Mayhem Film Festival. Director Paul Hyett also came along to answer some questions about the making of the film in a ‘Making Monsters Masterclass’. Werewolves on a train. It sounds like a supernatural Snakes on a...

The name of this film hints at two things: it’s not for the faint-hearted and is most likely going to be absolutely insane. I can confirm Deathgasm certainly lives up to its title. This indie horror-comedy, from New Zealand, is about young metalhead Brody and his friends as they...

The concluding film at Mayhem Film Festival definitely put meaning to the word ‘mayhem’. Directed by Karyn Kusama (Jennifer’s Body), this story steers away from conventional horror, and seems to lie more in the psychological thriller genre. The story tells us of a man named Will (Logan Marshall-Green) and...

Every year the hosts of Mayhem put together an eclectic mix of international short films, usually with one or two local films thrown in. This year was no different. First up was one of the local films, Lab Rats, a film about a group of animal rights activists attempting...

German Angst is a privately funded trilogy of middling length movies all centred in Berlin. It opens with Final Girl, by Jörg Buttgereit of Nekromantik infamy (the most romantically shot film about a threesome with a corpse you are likely to see). His film is a slightly claustrophobic torture...

The World Trade Centre, known informally as the Twin Towers, were the tallest buildings in the world at the time of their completion in 1974. What it did not expect was for its inauguration to the world to be so death-defying and humanly insurmountable. This moment of pure awe...

Have you ever been in the middle of reading Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and thought “this would be so much better if there were zombies in it”? No? Me neither, but let’s give it a go. The trailer follows a typical two half style. The first is very...