Tom Cottey

Cannibal Holocaust: The Heart of Darkness in Film

by Tom Cottey 24 June 2012

To celebrate the upcoming launch of issue 6 , our B-Movie special, Tom Cottey takes a closer look at Ruggero Deodato’s controversial exploitation flick: Cannibal Holocaust. In the late 1970s and early 80s the cannibal film was a somewhat bizarre phenomenon within the Italian film industry. Part of a wider sub-category of exploitation films, cannibal [...]

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In Review: Go To Blazes on DVD

by Tom Cottey 9 April 2012

Released in 1962 Go To Blazes represents British cinema at an uneasy stylistic point: somewhere between the post-war whimsy of the Carry On films and the more dynamic, ‘swinging London’ style liberation of A Hard Days Night and the films of Michael Caine. Go To Blazes is an utterly British heist-comedy which is at times [...]

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