Ian Berriman
Ian Berriman's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at the following Tomatometer-approved publication(s):
Total Film
SFX Magazine
Movies reviews only
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Honeymoon (2014) |
Taps into one of the most basic universal fears with some success, but never explores any particularly surprising territory. - SFX Magazine
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| Posted Oct 03, 2014
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Blackwood (2014) |
When so many horrors never stray from the usual route, it's laudable that Blackwood takes a detour somewhere unexpected. - SFX Magazine
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| Posted Aug 07, 2014
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World War Z (2013) |
Despite all appearances, World War Z isn't really a zombie movie. It's a disaster movie, one in which the agent of apocalypse just happens to be walking (and running) human corpses, rather than glaciers or a meteor strike. - SFX Magazine
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| Posted Oct 18, 2013
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Devil Girl From Mars (1954) |
Sadly, the PVC-clad Nyah is a crashing bore. - SFX Magazine
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| Posted Jun 07, 2013
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Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) |
Into Darkness is in large part designed to make Trek fans nudge one another in the ribs and emit excited fanboy yelps of recognition. How much you enjoy the film will depend on your appetite for homage. - SFX Magazine
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| Posted May 08, 2013
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The Innkeepers (2011) |
A gruelling trial of audience patience. - SFX Magazine
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| Posted Jun 11, 2012
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Tourist Trap (1979) |
Weds an older tradition of the uncanny with the more brutalist '70s mode, combining the unheimlich with the psychopathic. The results are seriously creepy. - SFX Magazine
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| Posted May 16, 2012
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In Time (2011) |
Andrew Niccol's dystopia never really feels like anything other than a depthless, stylish sleek surface. - SFX Magazine
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| Posted Feb 27, 2012
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Paranormal Activity 3 (2011) |
As before, this third entry in the franchise brushes aside such fripperies as a complex, involving narrative and drills straight down into our most primal fears. The results are as nerve-jangling as ever. - SFX Magazine
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| Posted Oct 23, 2011
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Save the Green Planet! (2003) |
Clearly designed to win a cult following, its "chuck everything, including the kitchen sink in" approach to weirdery treads a fine line between "endearingly bat's-arse" and "trying a bit too hard". - SFX Magazine
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| Posted Apr 19, 2011
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House (1977) |
If you crashed a teenage girls' pyjama party after necking some bad acid, this is probably what it'd feel like. - SFX Magazine
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| Posted Apr 04, 2011
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The Blob (1958) |
The Blob is one of those B-movies that will always inhabit a warm little nook in the affections of SF fans but, truth be told, it's never quite as fun as it should be. - SFX Magazine
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| Posted Mar 28, 2011
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The Crawling Eye (1958) |
Although hampered by a low budget and some laughable model work, The Trollenberg Terror certainly has its moments. - SFX Magazine
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| Posted Mar 21, 2011
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Zu, Warriors From the Magic Mountain (1983) |
The narrative moves at such break-neck speed and hits you with such a rapid succession of gags that you're soon too dizzy to fuss over the details. - SFX Magazine
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| Posted Mar 07, 2011
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The Sentinel (1977) |
The cast is certainly impressive, but in every other respect this horror in the vein of Rosemary's Baby and The Exorcist is a second-rate piece of tut. - SFX Magazine
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| Posted Feb 28, 2011
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I Bury the Living (1958) |
Sure, this is basically just like an extended episode of The Twilight Zone, but that's no bad thing, since it's like a good episode. - SFX Magazine
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| Posted Feb 21, 2011
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The Night of the Hunted (1980) |
This Alzheimer's nightmare has an uncanny, downbeat atmosphere that can't be dissipated, even by the comical regularity with which Rollin's stars disrobe, or some crude scissors-in-eyes gore. - SFX Magazine
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| Posted Jan 31, 2011
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Versus (2000) |
Being dumb is cool, dude, and Versus is as knowingly dumb as a three-chord thrash by The Ramones. - SFX Magazine
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| Posted Jan 25, 2011
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Orpheus (1950) |
If you're the kind of amateur existentialist who admires the ring of a sentence like "look a lifetime in a mirror and you will see Death at work", then this beautiful film is for you. - SFX Magazine
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| Posted Jan 10, 2011
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Blacula (1972) |
William Marshall brings considerable nobility to the lead role - no mean feat when you've got patches of hair glued all over your face and keep turning into a giant bat. - SFX Magazine
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| Posted Dec 20, 2010
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Q (1982) |
Q works because Larry Cohen plays it pretty straight. Guerrilla filming on the streets of NYC helps create a sense of verisimilitude, and the characterisation is both unusual and strong. - SFX Magazine
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| Posted Dec 14, 2010
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The Asphyx (1972) |
What stops the film from sliding into irredeemable silliness is the performance of Robert Stephens, one of those dependable British thesps you can always rely upon to pull out the stops. - SFX Magazine
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| Posted Dec 14, 2010
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Le Dernier Combat (1983) |
Moments of wry whimsy maintain interest, as do frequent flashes of Besson's knack for a striking image. - SFX Magazine
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| Posted Nov 30, 2010
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Let Me In (2010) |
it's impossible to deny that the subtlety has been dialled down by a good 5-10%... still, as Hollywood remakes go, a mere 5-10% is a good result. - SFX Magazine
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| Posted Nov 16, 2010
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Bed Sitting Room (1969) |
This example of post-apocalyptic absurdism sits midway between The Goons and Threads. - SFX Magazine
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| Posted Nov 16, 2010
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Plan 9 From Outer Space (1959) |
Some things are best watched at 3am, wrapped in the warm glow of drunkenness. Plan 9 From Outer Space is one of them. - SFX Magazine
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| Posted Nov 16, 2010
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La antena (2007) |
A hauntingly beautiful work: inventive, elegiac, gently surreal. - SFX Magazine
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| Posted Nov 15, 2010
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Hardware (1990) |
One of those lovingly crafted movies where ingenuity and enthusiasm overcome the budgetary limitations. - SFX Magazine
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| Posted Oct 19, 2010
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Wristcutters: A Love Story (2006) |
This road movie romcom wont leave you reaching for the razor blades. - SFX Magazine
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| Posted Oct 11, 2010
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Eyes Without a Face (1959) |
Wedding lyrical beauty to a gruesome scenario, it bridges the chasm between arthouse poetry and exploitation voyeurism. - SFX Magazine
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| Posted Sep 27, 2010
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Brain Damage (1988) |
A horribly funny addiction allegory, equally likely to make you feel sympathy and sorrow, or burp up a tiny bit of sick. - SFX Magazine
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| Posted Sep 20, 2010
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Killer Klowns From Outer Space (1988) |
It's a one-gag movie, but while some of the iterations of that gag are about as hilarious as a squirt in the face from a plastic flower, a few are genuinely rib-tickling. - SFX Magazine
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| Posted Sep 16, 2010
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The Gates of Hell (1980) |
Whilst not as outlandish as The Beyond, undoubtedly Fulci's finest fever-dream, City Of The Living Dead is still startlingly crackers. - SFX Magazine
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| Posted Sep 16, 2010
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Night of the Comet (1984) |
What really makes Night Of The Comet such a joy isn't the nostalgia rush it provides, but the two central characters. These girls just get on with it, dealing with the apocalypse with resourcefulness, crackerjack wit, and machine guns. - SFX Magazine
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| Posted Aug 31, 2010
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Let Sleeping Corpses Lie (1974) |
Much of the pleasure of this UK take on Night Of The Living Dead comes from seeing the undead wandering round the grey landscape of '70s Britain as if they've accidentally lurched into an early Mike Leigh film. - SFX Magazine
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| Posted Aug 23, 2010
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Death Line (1972) |
This under-rated British horror has the ragged edge and grim tone of a film made two years later - The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. - SFX Magazine
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| Posted Aug 09, 2010
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Colossus: The Forbin Project (1969) |
A crisp, well-crafted movie that achieves its effects by calmly stating the facts, with the bare minimum of histrionics. - SFX Magazine
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| Posted Aug 02, 2010
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Blind Beast (1969) |
Shining a flashlight on some murky corners of human sexuality, it's a continually astonishing piece of work - by the end you may feel somewhat dazed and bewildered. - SFX Magazine
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| Posted Aug 02, 2010
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Wild Zero (2000) |
The sort of film that makes you want to down a bottle of vodka, throw your TV out of the window, set your house on fire, and pogo naked on the roof screaming, "ROCK AND ROLL!!!" - SFX Magazine
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| Posted Jul 19, 2010
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It Happened Here (1964) |
A chilling and thought-provoking film because it resists the clichs of Hollywood war movies, where good and evil are often clearly delineated. - SFX Magazine
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| Posted Jul 12, 2010
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Fantastic Planet (1973) |
Grotesque yet graceful, it's a hallucinatory vision quite unlike everything you've ever seen. - SFX Magazine
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| Posted Jul 05, 2010
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A heady mix of old-fashioned romanticism with pulp comic books, Kenneth Anger, gratuitous nudity, S&M%u2026 and just a teensy hint of Ed Wood - SFX Magazine
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| Posted Jun 28, 2010
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Zardoz (1974) |
While it can't hope to achieve its grand ambitions, it's smart, it has some sharp dialogue, and the surrealism-on-a-shoestring visuals are undeniably striking. - SFX Magazine
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| Posted Jun 21, 2010
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Forbidden Zone (1980) |
You could toss definitions at this thing all day and never hit the bullseye. - SFX Magazine
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| Posted Jun 14, 2010
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Suspiria (1977) |
An eye-popping maelstrom of visual excess. - SFX Magazine
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| Posted Jun 07, 2010
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Jubilee (1978) |
Flawed but fascinating, deliriously self-indulgent and perverse, it's the cinematic equivalent of having a mouthful of bile gobbed in your eye. - SFX Magazine
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| Posted Jun 01, 2010
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The Skull (1965) |
The Skull succeeds against the odds... Freddie Francis enlivens a rote script with his visual flair. - SFX Magazine
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| Posted May 24, 2010
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The Sorcerers (1967) |
The Sorcerers interrogates the swinging sixties morality of 'pleasure with no consequences', prefiguring the way the hippy dream turned sour at the end of the decade. - SFX Magazine
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| Posted May 17, 2010
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Android (1982) |
In a line-up of all of Roger Corman's New World productions, Android stands out for its sensitivity and gentle humour. - SFX Magazine
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| Posted May 04, 2010
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Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things (1972) |
Like watching a George Romero rip-off, directed by Ed Wood, with a script scribbled by Joe Orton while he was ripped to the tits on poppers. - SFX Magazine
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| Posted Apr 26, 2010
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