By Guest Contributor Helen Creighton Game of Thrones has finally ended, and not in a way everyone found entirely satisfactory. This is nothing new in television; there’s a history of beloved, long-running shows dropping final seasons or finales that leave their audiences feeling cheated. Take the long-running 80s hospital drama St. Elsewhere, concluded with the […]
They’ve been regularly made since the very first film of the kind in the 1920s, but perhaps the 1970s were particularly unusual for the sheer volume of vampire horror films which emerged. Many different varieties of vampire horror appeared, too: Hammer Studios toyed with classic stories and folklore to create their own lurid, luxuriant spin, […]
By Guest Contributor Marc Lissenburg The biggest accolade I can give the Dead By Dawn International Film Festival is the fact my continued attendance ensures I devour every delectable morsel projected onto the silver screen. Annually, without fail, darkly feverish cinematic delicacies are chosen with unbridled passion and scheduled with logical precision. If you can […]
When Drag Me to Hell was made, an unbelievable decade ago, it did one thing straight away: it delivered director and writer Sam Raimi back into the eager grasp of a multitude of genre film fans. An Evil Dead remake may have been floating around at the rumour stage by roughly this point in time, […]
There’s hardly any need at this stage to say that the late Jess Franco was one of the most prolific low-brow filmmakers we’ve ever known, but the terrific plus side to his frenetic pace of work during a nearly sixty-year career is that, for most of us, there’s still a wealth of film titles out […]
By Guest Contributor Matt Harries In an era where a phrase such as ‘world building’ has entered the lexicon of the expectant cinema-goer, it is all too easy for the brightest lights, most groundbreaking camera work and most stupendous action sequences to steal the hearts and minds of the viewer. Conversely, it seems that all […]
Actor Michael Sabbaton has some impressive form portraying tortured male protagonists; his work to date enacting stories from HP Lovecraft more than prove this, and it’s something of a theme he has explored further in his newest one-man theatre show, The Turk. However, quite unlike Lovecraft, in this original piece of work Sabbaton has allowed […]
2017’s Get Out proved to be quite the milestone for 21st century cinema. Establishing TV funnyman Jordan Peele as a writer-director to be reckoned with, it proved to be that rare combination of both critical and commercial darling, making back its $5 million budget many, many times over (bravo to producer Jason Blum’s business model), […]
Next up in Eureka Entertainment’s noble ongoing mission to bring all the great Jackie Chan movies to Blu-ray, it’s one of the key films (another being Project A, also released by Eureka last year) which the Hong Kong legend made alongside longtime collaborators Yuen Biao and Sammo Hung. The careers of all three men have […]
Whatever way you look at it, Michael Moynihan and Didrik Søderlind’s book Lords of Chaos: The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground has been responsible for some serious myth-building in metal circles, not least in the minds of many of those involved in the spate of arson and violence which enveloped the emergent underground […]
As much as I shouldn’t make broad assumptions, when it comes to horror properties getting rebooted I rather doubt that too many fans are likely to get up in arms regarding Leprechaun. Sure, the series that began with Mark Jones’ 1993 movie notched up five direct sequels and one existing reboot, making it one of […]