https://stevedrice.net/ 2026-05-02T10:12:41+00:00 https://stevedrice.net/ https://stevedrice.net/_media/wiki/dokuwiki.svg text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:54+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/horror/248 Review of 'Ghost Ship' A salvage crew is approached by a pilot who has seen a cruise ship floating in international waters. They set out to recover the ship that they learn has been missing since the 1960s but very quickly find that the ship is haunted. When they attempt to leave with gold they find their boat explodes and they are left aboard the cruise ship to try to survive since the ghosts seem to have other ideas text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:54+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/horror/301 Review of '10 Cloverfield Lane' Michelle (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) is upset having just ended a romantic relationship and, distraught, is involved in a dramatic car accident. She wakes to find herself in a concrete room chained to a pole. We learn that Howard (John Goodman), a quirky recluse, has not only built the bunker she finds herself in but has also rescued her from the end of the world. They share the bunker with Emmett (John Gallagher Jr.), a young man who helped Howard work on th… text/html 2024-04-28T11:10:12+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/horror/308 Review of 'The Lobster' When this was first shown independent cinemas it had a number of good reviews and it's premise was appealing to me. Recently we picked up the DVD to have a look. The film starts with David (Colin Farrell) checking into a rather unusual hotel with his brother, who is now a dog (!). We learn that people are given 45 days to find a romantic partner or else they are to be turned into an animal of their choice. If this happens David chooses to become a lobster. Dail… text/html 2024-05-11T15:35:43+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/horror/372 Review of 'It' In the town of Derry, Maine children have been mysteriously disappearing for many years. Years following Bill Denbrough's (Jaeden Lieberher) little brother Georgie (Jackson Robert Scott) disappearance he is a member of “The Losers Club text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:54+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/horror/420 Review of 'Mandy' Lumberjack Red Miller (Nicholas Cage) and his artist girlfriend Mandy Bloom (Andrea Riseborough) life a peaceful life in a secluded cabin in the woods. When Mandy catches the eye of a crazed cult leader she is kidnapped then killed brutally in front of Red. Red does not take kindly to this and sets out to settle the score text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:54+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/horror/430 Review of 'El orfanato (The Orphanage)' Laura (Belén Rueda), her husband (Fernando Cayo) and their adopted son Simón (Roger Príncep) move into a big house which was formerly an orphanage where Laura was raised. Shortly after moving in Simón reports hearing and talking to children though this is dismissed as his active imagination. But then Benigna (Montserrat Carulla) an older lady pre-porting to be a social worker visits and is later found by Laura lurking about the grounds then fleeing i… text/html 2024-05-11T15:35:43+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/horror/476 Review of 'It Chapter Two' 27 years after the events of the first film, Mike Hanlon (Isiah Mustafa), one of the members of the “Losers Club”, still lives in Derry. Monitoring a police scanner Mike attends a crime scene to see “Come Home” written in blood and realises the evil entity Pennywise has returned. As children the members had agreed to return to Derry if text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:54+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/horror/588 Review of '28 Days Later' At an animal testing facility in Cambridge a group of animal rights activists free some chimps despite being warned they have been infected with a virus...“rage”. The chimps quickly infect the activists who immediately turn into psychotic, unthinking maniacs determined to kill anyone they find. A subtitle is shown text/html 2023-12-02T17:37:16+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/horror/622 Review of 'Zombieland' Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg) is a student trying to make his way back home in world devestated by a virus related to mad cow disease that turns victims into brutal (and fast) Zombies. In between killing Zombies and trying to survive, Columbus meets Tallahassee (Woody Harrelson), a non-nonsense Twinkie-loving (yes!) gruff man who loves the slaughter. The two start travelling together when they are outsmarted by two street-savvy young women Wichita (Emma Stone) and her y… text/html 2023-12-02T17:37:16+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/horror/623 Review of 'Zombieland: Double Tap' A decade after the events of Zombieland see psycho Zombie-killer Tallahassee (Woody Harrelson), OCD rule-making Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg), free-spirited but tough Wichita (Emma Stone), and her younger sister Little Rock (Abigail Breslin) living in the White House. When Columbus gets a bit too personal for Wichita the two women leave in a souped-up version of the president's car text/html 2024-02-25T16:41:18+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/horror/624 Review of 'What We Do in the Shadows' A spoof (!) documentary following the lives of four vampire (!) flatmates in Wellington, New Zealand: Viago (Taika Waititi), Vladislav (Jemaine Clement), Deacon (Jonny Brugh) and Petyr (Ben Fransham) who sleeps in a stone coffin the basement. They face the normal problems of flatmates such as who cleans the clothes and does the dishes but also those related to being a vampire such as avoiding the sunlight, silver and enthusiastic vampire slayers. Deac… text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:54+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/horror/626 Review of 'The Lighthouse' In this black and white film, two lighthouse keepers begin their four week stint at a remote lighthouse in New England. The old hand Thomas Wake (Willem Dafoe) and the newcomer Ephraim Winslow (Robert Pattinson). Wake is obsessed with the light of the lighthouse, not allowing Winslow near while Winslow is given all of the physically taxing jobs while being accosted by both Wake and an overly aggressive seagull. The tension between the two men grows over the weeks… text/html 2025-03-08T15:19:32+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/horror/646 Review of 'The Platform (El hoyo)' Goreng (Ivan Massagué) wakes to find himself in “The Hole” sharing a room with veteran Trimagasi (Zorion Eguileor). They are on level 48 with identical room above and below them. Every day a platform containing food descends through a rectangular hole in the ceiling, stopping for a few minutes, before descending to the room below. At each level more and more food is consumed leaving less for those below. A few rules govern how the facility works: Each i… text/html 2024-02-25T16:07:28+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/horror/756 Review of 'The Invisible Man' Cecilia Kass (Elisabeth Moss, familiar as “June Osborne” in “The Handmaid's Tale” TV series) escapes from an abusive relationship with wealthy optics scientist Adrian Griffin (Oliver Jackson-Cohen). Hiding in the home of her best friend policeman James Lanier (Aldis Hodge) and his teenage daughter Sydney (Storm Reid), Cecilia believes she is being watched. Learning of Adrian's suicide, Cecilia becomes more relaxed and is able to leave the house without sufferi… text/html 2025-03-08T15:19:32+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/horror/797 Review of 'The Platform 2 (El hoyo 2)' Set in the same world as The Platform, this story from the vertical prison where daily a platform lowers bearing food. Young woman Perempuán (Milena Smit) finds herself sharing a level with Zamiatin (Hovik Keuchkerian), a large man, who explains that two factions currently control the tower: The Loyalists, lead by the brutal Dagin Babi (Óscar Jaenada), who have imposed rules established by a mythic text/html 2025-08-16T15:50:10+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/horror/828 Review of '28 Weeks Later' A sequel to Danny Boyle's 2002 film 28 Days Later, six months have passed since the Rage Virus decimated Britain and has largely been controlled with a safe zone called “District One” set up in London's Canary Wharf. Don Harris (Robert Carlyle) survived the initial outbreak by abandoning his wife Alice (Catherine McCormack) when the farmhouse they were hiding in was invaded by Rage infected zombies and has been living with regret ever since. He overjoyed to be re… text/html 2026-01-25T14:08:30+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/horror/850 Review of 'Frankenstein' The classic Mary Shelley story brought to the big screen by Guillermo del Toro. Told in 3 parts, “Prelude” finds the crew of the Danish Naval vessel Horisont sailing for the north pole, caught in the ice. An explosion in the distance has the crew investigate finding an injured man who they return to the ship: Victor Frankenstein (Oscar Isaac). The crew are attacked by a Creature (Jacob Elordi) demanding that they release Victor to him. It is revealed that Victor … text/html 2026-02-03T20:01:32+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/horror/855 Review of 'Five Nights at Freddy's' Mike Schmidt (Josh Hutcherson) struggles to care alone for his much younger sister Abby (Piper Rubio). Their estranged aunt Jane (Mary Stuart Masterson) wants custody of Abby for the monthly child allowance payments. When he is fired from his job as a mall security guard he reluctantly agrees to take job as a night guard at the now abandoned Freddy Fazbear's Pizza restaurant. In addition to arcade and pinball games the pizzeria featured full-size animat… text/html 2026-02-24T19:51:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/horror/860 Review of 'El Conde' In the 1900s royalist French soldier Claude Pinnoche (Jaime Vadell) witnesses the French revolution and the beheading of Marie Antoinette. Discovered to be a vampire he ends up in Chili where he changes his name to Augusto Pinochet, aka text/html 2026-02-24T19:51:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/horror/introduction Horror Not really a big fan but I can be surprised...just not very often. 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