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Essential Demonic Horror Movies To Send Shivers Down Your Spine

January 31, 2025 by Tom Jolliffe

Grab your Holy Bible and rosary beads as we look at ten essential demonic horror movies that will send shivers down your spine… As Flickering Myth takes a leap into independent film with The Baby in the Basket, our own little slice of demonic horror (releasing on DVD and Digital this February!), maybe now is […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Demons, Evil Dead 2, Hellraiser, Hereditary, Rosemary's Baby, The Baby in the Basket, The Entity, The Exorcist, the omen, The Wailing, the witch

Essential Gothic Horror Movies To Scare You Senseless

January 12, 2025 by Tom Jolliffe

As we prepare for the release of The Baby in the Basket, Tom Jolliffe presents essential selection of gothic horror films guaranteed to scare you senseless… Dark, macabre psychological stories set in isolated locations with the uncanny or supernatural. Gothic horror movies are often dripping in atmosphere, enveloping the audience in a deeply unsettling story. […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Black Narcissus, Black Sunday, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Dracula, Eyes Without a Face, Sleepy Hollow, Suspiria, The Cabinet of Dr Caligari, The Lighthouse, The Pit and the Pendulum

The Essential Cannon Films Scores

January 11, 2025 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe looks at some of the best musical scores from Cannon Films’ oeuvre… A good film score can elevate the picture and manipulate the viewer. It can illicit excitement, fear, intrigue, melancholy and more. It’s not uncommon for a film score to become just as legendary an aspect of a particular film as anything […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Bloodsport, Hercules, Highlander, Invasion USA, King Solomons Mines, Lifeforce, Masters of the Universe, Runaway Train, Sahara, The Hitcher

Ten Essential British Horror Movies You Need To See

January 5, 2025 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe looks at ten essential British horror movies… We love a good horror film at Flickering Myth (so much so that we’re releasing our very own, The Baby in the Basket, next month!). British cinema has produced many great horror films that are definitely inspiring and we’ve put together a list of essentials for […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: 28 Days Later, Don't Look Now, Hellraiser, Images, Kill List, Lifeforce, Repulsion, The Baby in the Basket, The Blood on Satan's Claw, The Descent, The Witches

Ranking The Police Academy Franchise From Worst to Best

January 3, 2025 by Tom Jolliffe

No One: the world needs a Police Academy franchise ranking. Assume the position, because Flickering Myth has it covered… From a golden era of goofy screwball comedies, a franchise following the misadventures of a group of police academy recruits (turned fully fledged upholders of the law) struck box office gold. Yes, there was a time […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Bubba Smith, G.W. Bailey, leslie easterbrook, Michael Winslow, Paul Maslansky, Police Academy, Police Academy 2: Their First Assignmen, Police Academy 3: Back in Training, Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol, Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach, Police Academy 6: City Under Siege, Police Academy: Mission to Moscow, Steve Guttenberg

Ten Great Comeback Performances

December 30, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

A career slump is often impossible to escape from but sometimes, just sometimes, a performer gets a shot and delivers a comeback performance that puts them back in the spotlight… Hollywood is a fickle place. One minute you can be hot and the next not. Whether it’s a run-of-flops or the wrong kind of infamy, […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Adam Sandler, Al Pacino, Autumn Sonata, Brendan Fraser, Demi Moore, Ellen Burstyn, Everything Everywhere All at Once, Ingrid Bergman, Iron Man, Jackie Brown, JCVD, Jean-Claude Van Damme, John Travolta, Ke Huy Quan, Mandy, Matthew McConaughey, Mickey Rourke, Mud, Nicolas Cage, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Pam Grier, Pamela Anderson, Pauly Shore, Pulp Fiction, Requiem for a Dream, Robert Downey Jr., Robert Forster, Rocky Balboa, Sylvester Stallone, The Court Jester, The Last Showgirl, the substance, the whale, The Wrestler, Uncut Gems

Robert Eggers to enter the Labyrinth? Sold!

December 29, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

Rumours are circulating that Robert Eggers might be bringing the Goblin Kingdom back to our screens with a sequel to Labyrinth and it could be incredible… The Hollywood rumour mill never stops and occasionally it spews out an idea that sounds far too good to be true. Robert Eggers has just overseen the release of […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: David Bowie, Jennifer Connelly, Jim Henson, Labyrinth, Labyrinth 2, Nosferatu, Robert Eggers, The Lighthouse, The Northman, the witch

10 Hidden Gems from 2024 You Have To See

December 29, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

2024 has been a pretty stellar year for films, so much so that some have slipped under the radar; here’s ten recommendations for hidden gems you may have missed…  It feels like cinema has had something of a creative upswing lately beneath the mainstream. In the last few years, we’ve seen some interesting auteur horrors […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Ama Gloria, Didi, Girl You Know It's True, House of Screaming Glass, i saw the tv glow, Kneecap, La Chimera, Monster, Sky Peals, The Teachers' Lounge

10 Great Recent Horror Movies You Need To See

December 28, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

Here are ten recent scarers you need to see… If mainstream cinema and blockbuster spectaculars have had a largely tough time finding traction with audiences in the past five years, horror films have had the exact opposite. The past decade has seen a healthy rise in inventive and boundary-pushing horror movies, with the past five […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Barbarian, Censor, infinity pool, longlegs, men, Suitable Flesh, Talk to Me, Terrifier 2, The Lighthouse, the substance

The Essential Joe Dante Movies

December 25, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

We take a look at the essential works of the vastly underrated Joe Dante…  Some directors are rightly heralded as part of the grand pantheon of legendary directors. Thinking of Steven Spielberg immediately brings to mind an array of iconic masterpieces, not least some of his trailblazing films in the blockbuster realm.  Arriving in the […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Gremlins, Gremlins 2, Innerspace, Joe Dante, Matinee, the 'burbs, The Hole, The Howling

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