Duncan McLeish

Duncan McLeish

A horror obsessed cinephile and host of the horror podcast The Podcast Under the Stairs.

Favorite films

  • The Thing
  • The Shining
  • Suspiria
  • The Hitcher

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  • A Mother's Embrace

    ★★★½

  • Hearts of Darkness: The Making of the Final Friday

    ★★★★

  • The Last Sacrifice

    ★★★★½

  • House of Ashes

    ★½

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  • Prisoners of the Ghostland

    Prisoners of the Ghostland

    ★★½

    More than just a little disappointed here.

    Two distinct flavours you’d expect to go well together left a sour taste in my mouth.

    It has the style of and artistry of a Sono movie and Cage is definitely delivering his OTT style but there is something very flat and lacking in grandeur about the overall product.

    A missed opportunity maybe…or maybe adding too many outrageous elements to one project means there is nothing normal enough to make the rest stand out.

  • Antlers

    Antlers

    ★★★★

    A very bleak and unrepentantly joyless look at the windingo mythology.

    Cast is awesome and cinematography is excellent, however this is a movie that really revels in darkness and despair in a way that demand a certain mindset to enjoy.

    I will admit it got me a few times during the run time.

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  • Freaks

    Freaks

    ★★★★★

    Movie of the Glasgow Frightfest line up 2019!!

    Wonderfully funny, tense and full of twists and turns.

    Bruce Dern is surrounds by incredible performances and a very quick and fun script.

    Seen as part of Glasgow Frightfest

  • Bliss

    Bliss

    ★★★★★

    This is my mother fucking JAM!!!

    Joe Begos has always been a fav director of mine combining the sci-fi aesthetic and sensibility of the decade of my birth (the 80's fyi) and the body horror trappings of Cronenberg.

    Just when you thought he had gone to pasture (it has been many years since the rad The Minds Eye) he has only gone and returned with a movie that blew me away!!

    A wholly unique take on punk and vampires in…