THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW - THEATRE REVIEW

THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW AT THE WOLVERHAMPTON GRAND THEATRE

Theatre Run: Monday 28 October - Saturday 2 November

Performance Viewed: Monday 28 October (Press Night)

Reviewed by Kyle Pedley

I had the pleasure of first reviewing this current touring production of The Rocky Horror Show in Birmingham back in January this year, and it was with very welcome open arms (and thrusting hips) that I welcomed it back to the Midlands as the show finds itself at home at the Wolverhampton Grand Theatre over Halloween. The show remains fundamentally the same, bar a few incremental changes to some of the set pieces and musical number staging, and Henry Davis’ Rocky is given an injection of youthful naivete blended with a dash of vitriol over predecessor Rhydian’s more mindless interpretation, but essentially all that made the same tour so irrepressibly entertaining, gloriously mischievous and wholly recommendable earlier in the year continues to ring true.

CURSE OF CHUCKY - BLU-RAY REVIEW

CURSE OF CHUCKY - HOME RELEASE (BLU-RAY)

Release Date: Monday 21 October 2013

Director: Don Mancini

Starring: Fiona Dourif, Danielle Bisutti, Brad Dourif, Brennan Elliott, Maitland McConnell, A Martinez

Home Release Reviewed: UK Blu-Ray Release (1 Disc)

Reviewed by Kyle Pedley

THE FILM:

It’s somewhat difficult to believe it has been almost a decade since we last saw a new Chucky instalment, so eponymous and iconic a horror icon has the diminutive terror become. However, on the grounds of the abysmal and woefully misjudged Seed of Chucky, it’s general box office underperformance, not to mention the severe backlash it received from fans of the franchise, it seems the time off has done the murderous good guy some good.