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My review of Venom: The Last Dance could, I guess, be called toxic. But it had it coming. Find out why.
Shocktober 2024 winds up with your 13th and final Scream of Halloween. The best Dracula film you've probably never seen, The Last Voyage of the Demeter (2023).
Shocktober 2024 celebrates Devil's Night with your penultimate Scream. Say hello to The Bye Bye Man (2017)
Shocktober's final frightful three kick off with a grim modern fairy tale. Click here for Cobweb (2023) And the arachnaphobics among you needn't worry - no spiders are involved.
Shocktober 2024: Your 10th Scream of Halloween comes courtesy of M. Night Shyamalan, and his curiously under rated, eerie ecological horror, The Happening (1988)
Shocktober 2024: It's time for your ninth Scream, last year's return to form for The Exorcist series with Exorcist: Believer (2023)
Shocktober 2024: The 13 Screams of Halloween might put a Smile on your face for the second time with this year's fresh 8th entry. Check it out.
Shocktober 2024 is right up to date with your Seventh Scream, as we take a bite out of 'Salem's Lot (2024)
Shocktober 2024 lurches on, with this year's Piercing the Veil Shocktober Special - counting down our favourite Hammer Horrors - and just for the hell of it, our three worst. Click here for the full episode of our podcast.
Shocktober 2024 - Your sixth Scream has Art the Clown putting the slay in sleigh bells in Terrifier 3 (2024).
Joker: Folie a Deux - The joke's on the audience. Find out why
Shocktober 2024 - Let's do a deep dive into the collection for your third Scream of Halloween. It's 1977, Julie Christie is carrying the Demon Seed.
Shocktober 2024 - And here we go with the second Scream of Halloween, as Shocktober lurches ever forward. I'm turning the clock back to 1988, and our first meeting with everyone's favourite chaos demon, Beetlejuice.
It's that time of year again - welcome to Shocktober 2024: The 13 Screams of Halloween. The first scream has just slipped out of the crypt. Are you ready for The Blood on Satan's Claw (1971)
Say his name three times! The Juice is loose with my review of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice at this link.
Meet AIA, she's here to help in the latest offering from Blumhouse Productions. My Afraid review is here. (Shhhh, she's listening.)
Alien: Romulus kinda left me in the dark. Find out why.
Trap - a Hitchcockian thriller from M. Night Shyamalan that you won't want to escape from is reviewed here.
Borderlands isn't exactly impressing critics or setting the box office alight, but hey - I had no objections to it. Review is here.
The Pierce Boys are back in town, catching up with the events of the past month and answering some listeners' questions. Piercing the Veil Ep 64 is freshly cooked and waiting for you at this link.
Deadpool & Wolverine - Marvel FINALLY get their act together and fix their Movie Universe. Now we can start looking forward again. Find out why here, bub.
For sheer summer blockbuster spectacle, Twisters hits like...well..a tornado. My review is here.
Longlegs strides in to claim its place as one of the films of the year. Step over to this link for the review.
In a Violent Nature - a film as bewilderingly inept and meaningless as its stupid title. Where did it go wrong? Sit down with a warm drink, there's practically a list.
It's finally back - Piercing the Veil: Resurrected, the reboot episode of the podcast is now available at this link.
Boy, the things some people will do for pizza. A Quiet Place: Day One review reveals all. Click here.
Sting is not an itsy bitsy spider - not by any means. Find out why.
"Is Tamara here?" - The Strangers have found us. Chapter 1 review is here.
You might say it's gorilla warfare in the Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes. My review is on this link.
Happy Star Wars Day, it's the 25th anniversary of The Phantom Menace and this site is a year old today. How about a Captain's Blog of my reminiscences of watching Episode 1 on opening day, 1999?
The cards hopefully look good for the latest horror film, Tarot. Find out why.
In the sci-fi thriller I.S.S. the war on Earth is also being fought on the International Space Station. Review is here.
Abigail - the ballerina with bite, and Universal's latest monster is here.
40 years on from the original, does bustin' still make us feel good? Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire suggests there's still plenty of life in the series. Review is here.
Meet Chauncey the Imaginary friend you really dare not turn your back on. Click here.
A two hour Piercing the Veil Christmas Special is now available, in which the team discuss 30 favourite movies to watch in the holiday season. Click here to listen.
Godzilla Minus One is definitely a Godzilla Plus Ten. Find out why here.
Let's give thanks for a new Thanksgiving tradition as Thanksgiving gets its own themed holiday slasher movie. Review is here.
Could YOU survive Five Nights at Freddy's? Let's find out.
Shocktober 2023 has one last Scream left, and it's a good one. Are you ready for Terrifier 2 (2022)?
Shocktober 2023: Your penultimate Scream of Halloween this year, Exorcist III (1990)
Shocktober 2023: Your 11th Scream, a film that has become more startlingly resonant now, post pandemic, than it was when it was released. The Last Man on Earth (1964)
Shocktober 2023: We've had some fun, now it's time we got serious for the Final Fearful Four Frights, kicking off with the return of Art, the Clown in Terrifier (2016)
Shocktober 2023: The 9th Scream takes place in The Haunted Mansion (2003) - a surprisingly darker, grimmer tale than you might expect from Disney at first glance.
Shocktober 2023: The 13 Screams of Halloween invites you to play along and Stay Alive (and it has nothing to do with Bee Gees cosplay). The Countess awaits here.
Shocktober 2023: Your 7th Scream is a low budget gorefest. Introducing Art the Clown in All Hallows Eve (2013)
Shocktober 2023: For your 6th Scream, we go tumbling back in time to 1925 and Lon Chaney's silent classic Phantom of the Opera
Shocktober 2023: The 13 Screams of Halloween takes a stumbling mis-step into a sequel so bad, it should be exorcised. Brace yourself for Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977)
Shocktober 2023: The 13 Screams of Halloween #4 is now published, and on behalf of Larry, we invite you to Come Play (2020)
Shocktober 2023: The 13 Screams of Halloween challenges you to accept The Invitation (2022)
Now online - Piercing the Veil: Shocktober 2023 Special, in which the Pierce Boys bring you 20 must watch horror movies to help you through the spooky season with guest Maria Pierce
Shocktober 2023 continues with your Second Scream of Halloween. Beware those little old ladies, they'll mess you up as we see in Sam Raimi's Drag Me to Hell (2009)
The font is a sickly green. That can only mean one thing, it's that time of year, and Shocktober 2023 is launched. Starting this year's 13 Screams of Halloween with The Exorcist (1973) on its fiftieth anniversary. Click on this link - the power of God compels you!
The Blue Beetle movie, and why it bugs me. Review here.
"Welcome, foolish mortals" to my review of Disney's Haunted Mansion.
Piercing the Veil Ep 60 covers the Tim Burton exhibition, games, streaming AND our visit to the cinema to see Barbie (all in the name of research!) Available here.
Giant sharks, giant octopus, prehistoric snappers, it's all going down in Meg 2: The Trench.
The review I never thought I'd write - the existential angst that is Barbie. (Shakes head in disbelief.)
Piercing the Veil Ep 59 Is now live and available for download right here.
Indiana Jones and the Cynic of Doom! Did the new film win me over? Find out here.
Bondage - a personal overview of all 25 Bond movies. My look at the good, the bad and the downright dreadful. Click here.
