Hi, it is Bill and Teddy the Chihuahua again, and as ever October meant the Shocktober Challenge: a whole month of horror watches, from new films to repeat viewings and discovering older films. We watched 40 films across the 31 days, 8 of them 2026 releases. Here is every one of them, in the order of our Letterboxd list, with our rating and our thoughts. You can also find the … [Read more...]
Hellboy It’s Good or Hell no?
Director: Neil Marshall Writers: Andrew Crosby based on Mike Mignola Characters Stars: David Harbour; Milla Jovovich; Ian McShane; Sasha Lane and Daniel Dae Kim TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsBO4b3tyZg THE BMAF REVIEW: As a disclaimer, we were huge fans of the Guillermo Del Toro Hellboy movies, but director Neil Marshall has given … [Read more...]
BMAF Go On ‘The Descent’ In Search Of Scares
As Halloween approaches we tend to look into our film collection for those Horror/Scary films to watch. This year we chose to revisit 2005 British Horror classic The Descent. A film that probably had the same effect on going into caves as Jaws did for those going into the water. From writer/director Neil Marshall, this would be his follow up to the excellent horror debut, … [Read more...]
Horror films, lighten up!
Today in the Barking Mad About Films household it was St Patrick’s Day Waking up early and scrolling through Netflix, I came across Leprechaun: Origins. I had seen some of the previous 6 B-Movies starring Warwick Davis so it grabbed my attention! Now the original 6 Leprechaun films were never too serious, as you can imagine with titles like Leprechaun 4: In Space and … [Read more...]
Film Location, Location, Location!
Which films were shot on the Isle of Wight? Fragile (2005), with Calista Flockhart, was partly filmed here, Red Funnel ferry and all. The island also appears in That'll Be The Day (1973), Mrs Brown (Osborne House) and Guest House Paradiso, the Bottom film. This Halloween we were looking for something spooky to watch and we saw in the film schedule that Film4 were showing … [Read more...]