For film fans out there I bet there are a short list of names that get you all excited when they announce they have a new film coming over the horizon. For me it used to be Spielberg, Cameron, Scorsese and still on my list is Oliver Stone. Other names that I see people going…
I don’t remember the first time I saw The Godfather (1972), I suspect it would have been on a TV broadcast in either the late 70s or early 80s. It was certainly before I saw Al Pacino play a different type of gangster in 1983’s Scarface. I do remember when I first saw The Godfather,…
With the Halloween season a few weeks behind us now (and lots of horror fans not too happy about that fact) There are still some amazing treats of the scary kind in store for us this festive season and one of them is pure horrific yuletide joy (with buckets of blood thrown in for good…
I remember when running my video store in the 90s and 2000s’ Versus came in the wake of The Matrix. A Japanese action film which perfectly blends the popular genres of gangster films, sword fighting films, as well as undead movies with a hint of The Matrix. the film rented pretty well and at the…
Stuck for something to watch last night (im sure you have those indecisive moods sometimes) I ventured into my favourite streaming platform Shudder and decided to check out Queen of Earth, a film by Alex Ross Perry. Now I hadn’t heard of the film before it appeared in a much welcomed Shudder newsletter, letting me…
My relationship with George A Romeros second film in the ‘Undead’ series goes back to around the late 1990s when I, as a 20something year eventually plucked up the cinematic courage to watch his 1968 classic, Night Of The Living Dead, after many years of being too nervous about what was Im sure a horrific…
In one of history’s most famous cases of body-snatching, two men steal the corpse of the revered film actor Sir Charles Chaplin from a cemetery in the Swiss village of Corsier-sur-Vevey, located in the hills above Lake Geneva, near Lausanne, Switzerland, on March 1, 1978. Now in this alternate reality but still based on the real life true story the latest…
In a town acclaimed for honouring ancient folklore, Willow (played by Lamissah La Shontae ) finds herself vulnerable to a sinister mythological farmer after failing to contribute to the annual tradition of berry collecting. From there…..well Im not saying, watch the film for yourself when you can. Whilst the film itself is only around 3…
From Writer/Director Jeffrey Reddick comes Don’t Look Back (also known as Good Samaritan) a wonderfully crafted thriller that takes us on the journey of Caitlin Kramer who whilst dealing with the after effects of losing her Father in a house invasion, is out in the park one day and witnesses (along with others) a man…
1970s American, Three African American siblings on the run from the police take refuge at an abandoned Tennessee Ranch, unaware their hideout is on the hunting grounds of a cannibalistic Ku Klux Klan cult…Trapped and tortured, the Clarence, Angela and Brandon must fight tooth and nail to escape alive and take down the bloodthirsty Klan…
What made the creators of some of the classic horror films dream up the nightmares that kept us up at night? Were these people as strange and twisted as their creations? And what about today’s creators of horror? Who are the minds behind the macabre of the present day? The Horror Crowd is a wonderful…
Georges Méliès was not just a pioneer of early cinema, he was central to what we know as film today. An illustrator, magician, filmmaker, and inventor he paved the way for animation and multi-media filmmaking. Of all of Méliès films, his boldest and most well known is certainlythe 13 minute film A Trip to the…
Terror inducing home-invasion thriller The Strangers, the 2008 debut film from writer-director Bryan Bertino (Mockingbird, The Monster), stars Liv Tyler (Lord of the Rings, The Leftovers) and Scott Speedman (Underworld, Animal Kingdom) as a couple terrorised by masked attackers. Garnering cult status since its release, The Strangers now arrives as a Limited-Edition Blu-ray box set from Second Sight Films on 28 September 2020…
Teenager Becky takes on a gang of murderous escaped convicts, as Vertigo Releasing brings this stylish and shocking home invasion thriller to the UK, available on digital platforms from 28th September. The film was acquired from Highland Film Group, which handles international rights for the film. Slickly and smartly directed by Jonathan Milott and Cary Murnion (the duo behind…
Have you ever seen a film that had a scene where an airliner flying at approx 30,000 ft was attacked by a fleet of flying sharks with Nazi soldiers on the back of them. Nope me either, but now I have and that was all in the films 13 minute pre credit sequence.Welcome to Sky…
