‘What’s on ‘Built For Speed’, Friday 8th June 2018

This Friday ‘Built For Speed’ will have you hiding under the bed as we review much lauded horror flick ‘Hereditary’ which stars Toni Collette.  We’ll also tell you about the more low key family drama ‘Kodachrome’ which stars Jason Sudeikis and Ed Harris.  There’ll be plenty of fine tunes with new releases from Australia and overseas, more favourite album tracks,

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Film review: IT, by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’

Having previously been adapted for a TV mini-series in 1990, Stephen King’s clown horror novel It now comes to the big screen. While not deserving the praise some have heaped on it, this film manages to continue a recent thread of strong mainstream horror films established by the Conjuring franchise and small-scale spookfests like Lights Out. In an apparent attempt to

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Film review: BLAIR WITCH, from ‘Built For Speed’

The original Blair Witch Project from 1999 was a genuinely creepy and inventive supernatural horror film that popularised found-footage cinema and ushered in an era of viral internet marketing campaigns. The hype surrounding the film claimed that it was recovered footage of three documentary film makers who, while investigating the legend of the Blair Witch in the Black Hills Forest

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Film review: LIGHTS OUT, ‘Built For Speed’

Lights out is a clichéd but tightly-directed horror film that makes very effective use of well-timed jump scares and better than average performances to create an entertaining spook-fest. An extended trailer for this film was shown before The Conjuring 2 which may have given the impression that the two films were linked.  Apart from the fact that The Conjuring 2

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