Category Archives: Horror

In the Shadow of Kilimanjaro

Legend has it that an evil spirit killed everyone who tried to climb Kilimanjaro, a dormant three cone volcano in East Africa. It wasn’t until the 1800s that missionaries realized that what looked like a cloud from below, was actually snow and that climbers succumbed to the extreme cold. If that wasn’t enough reason toContinue reading “In the Shadow of Kilimanjaro”

Beast of Blood

Eddie Romero’s Beast of Blood, aka Blood Devils, is the third and final film in the Filipino director’s “Blood Island” saga. Not having seen the first two, I felt a tad lost and confused – a feeling not dissimilar to delving straight into the “Antigone” portion of Sophocles’ Oedipus cycle. The film begins mere minutesContinue reading “Beast of Blood”