Jason Impey reviewed in Fangoria!

I just got the latest Fango (issue 333, with Godzilla on the cover) and was reading the Dump Bin Diaries section at the back where this month Trevor Parker reviews a two-disc, seven-feature pack from Columbia River called Psychopaths and Maniacs. It turns out that two of the features are by the Northamptonshire Cronenberg, Mr Jason Impey himself.

Of Naked Trip, Parker says "Impey is a natural onscreen, but this dry, talky, short feature does him no favours." He certainly prefers Zombie Lover: "the best overall entry by a country mile, offering a bit of romance and a weirdo Nazi subplot pired with some competent backyard zombie action."

There's a third BHR title in the pack (which was released last September) too: Will Metheringham's The Photographer, described as "awful - wth the exception of a tidy, understated, electronic score." The non-British films in the set are Scarlet Fry's Junkfood Horrorfest, A Season in Hell, The Brisbee Cannibal Club and Fetish Dolls Die Laughing. Parker recommends avoiding this set at all costs but frankly I'm sold!

You can find Psychopaths and Maniacs on Amazon.com for about eight and a half bucks. I piked it up from Play.com for four quid with free postage. Bargain!

Football meets British horror in 'Kick'!

I've come across a number of new titles this week but here's one that stands out because it's (a) different and (b) topical. With less than 24 hours to go before the World Cup starts, I've come across Kick, a new British horror film about football.

My initial concerns that this might just be yet another sub-Rise of the Footsoldier violent thug picture dissipated as I watched the terrific trailer. Basically, two football fans bribe their way into a Premier League stadium but then get trapped inside with a psycho. Lots of blood and body bits sliced off in this entry into the sport/horror mash-up genre.

Starring Rik Young (Beowulf, Voodoo Moon), Kellie Shirley (Whacked, The Sick House, EastEnders), Daniel Bayle, Richard Strange (Harry Potter 7, Inkheart), Nicola Posener (Axed) and Simone Kaye (Dead of the Nite), the film is written and directed by Marcus Warren.

I can't wait to see this one. Find out more at http://kickunited.com, Facebook or Twitter

Archive video about Doghouse featuring Jake West, Emily Booth... and Bob Keen!

Collecting images for my 2009 Jake West interview, I came across this fascinating historical document. Back in 2007, Carnaby Films created an eleven-minute pre-production featurette for Jake's film Doghouse, with Jake himself, Emily Booth and the great Bob Keen, who was at that time attached to do the make-up effects. The whole thing was shot in Bob's workshop at Pinewood (where I filmed a featurette about King Kong, around the same time).

I hadn't seen this for ages but it's still on YouTube, so here it is. Particularly interesting are some of the early design sketches for the various zombirds.

Poster for The Wrong Floor

Here's the utterly brilliant poster for The Wrong Floor, created by ace artist Tom Hodge.

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Come up with a tag line for the movie, post it on the Facebook page, and if it's chosen you'll win all sorts of goodies including a name-check in the credits.

Benny Loves Killing online for two weeks

Benny Loves Killing, directed by Ben Woodiwiss, will be available online for two weeks from Friday 1st May. It's part of something called the American Online Film Awards (AOFAs) and apparently you can buy a pass to see a whole bunch of such things for just three bucks.

The AOFA site doesn't sem to have any information on what or how many films are available, but even if you only watching Benny Loves Killing, that's less than two quid so pretty worth it.

"The film follows the struggles of a student making a horror film, only for her life to fall apart. A tense, claustrophobic love letter to cinema."

There's a Benny Loves Killing Facebook page and you can watch the first five minutes for free on Reelhouse.

Red Kingdom Rising available on DVD

Navin Dev's fabulous Carrollian horror fantasy Red Kingdom Rising - which I called "a hugely impressive feature debut, a visual poem reminiscent of the masters of dreamlike cinema" - is finally available to buy.

The disc is now available on Amazon.com, including 5.1 surround sound, trailers and two of Navin's award-wining short films, Red Hood and The Tree Man.

• Buy the DVD for ten bucks from Amazon
• My review of Red Kingdom Rising
• My interview with Navin Dev

Ten years of The Last Horror Movie: DVD sleeve gallery

Julian Richards' The Last Horror Movie is re-released in the UK next week in a' tenth anniversary edition' by Soda Pictures. For my money, it's a strong contender for the best British horror film of the 21st century and if you've never seen it, here's your chance to remedy that. In the next week I will be adding to my website a number of interviews I've done over the years with Julian and with the film's star Kevin Howarth. Until then, here's a round-up of VHS and DVD sleeves from the past ten years. On the top row is, left, the original VHS sleeve which matches the one shown in the film, and right, the new Soda release.

And here's the original UK trailer (with a quote by me!)