Film 99: The Summer of the Massacre

Ah, my eyes! Ah, my brain! What have I just sat through?

From Bryn Hammond, editor of Gorezone, comes possibly the worst film in the book. 70 minutes of some people running away from the most rubbish serial killer in history, bookended by long, illiterate captions. All shot on a domestic camcorder.

I had heard it was bad but I had no idea...

Film 98: The Ghosts of Crowley Hall

Rubbish 'found footage' documentary which is absolutely adamant that it's real but which even the most gullible supernatural-believer can see is just bad actors and a dodgy script. Barely worth a mention but it has to go in the book for the sake of completeness.

Film 97: From the Grave

Has anybody else ever seen this? Aka Until Death aka Cat Flap (no, honestly: Cat Flap). Released on US DVD in 2003. That sleeve image isn't from this film!

A young woman's dead husband comes back to scare her, but he only does this about 20 minutes from the end so for most of this well-made but forgettable film it's just a relationship drama about how the couple, and the guy she should have married, all grew up together in the idyllic English countryside.

Film 96: Lycanthropy

Kevin McDonagh's non-werewolf werewolf picture provides a rational explanation for its titular condition and consequently spends most of its overlong running time being a standard police procedural.

Well-made with some good performances, it's just not particularly gripping. Most of the action centres around a fetish club which is supposed to be a den of licentiousness but, to be honest, looks less threatening than the average school disco.

An Aussie DVD in 2007 is the only release to date.

'Rising Tide' released to VOD

Rising Tide looks good; very good, considering the cast and crew were all aged between 16 and 19. It had a one-off cinema screening last year and is released today on some sort of download thing called Vodo.

Synopsis
A sinister coming-of-age horror, Rising Tide is a story of friendship, loss and revenge. Exams over, it was one last chance to celebrate with close friends before going separate ways. Toasting ‘friendship’ and making plans for a final camping adventure together, Izzy, the new girl in the closely knit group, is hiding a dark and devastating past. Izzy’s secret follows the friends to the remote, mythical tidal island of Lindisfarne, where her skeletons take revenge on the trapped terror-stricken teens. You will never feel safe in a tent again.

Apparently this Vodo thing is all cutting edge and the future of distribution but I couldn't make head or tail of it. Still, I'm sure the young people know what it all means. The directors are Dawn Furness and Philip Shotton

• www.risingtidethemovie.com
• www.vodo.net/risingtide

Trailer for new indie anthology 'The Forbidden Four'

My mate Thomas Lee Rutter, auteur of such defiantly trash epics as Full Moon Massacre, Mr Blades and Feast for the Beast - and the man who coined the term 'britsploitation' - has cobbled together four of his very, very strange shorts, has shot a framing story and has created an anthology feature called The Forbidden Four. Here's the trailer:

Film 95: Puritan

I didn't know anything about Hadi Hajaig's gothic London noir so it was a real joy to watch it and discover what a stylish and enjoyable little gem of a movie this is.

I love the way that it maintains a clear 'horror atmosphere' throughout even though there are no actual supernatural elements until the very end, and I also love the ambiguity over whether the main character, a psychic medium, has real powers or not.