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The Rise of John Carpenter: Maestro of Horror

August 15, 2025 by admin

Simon Thompson looks at the rise of John Carpenter and his peak years throughout the 1970s and 80s… Director, musician, and Master Roshi look-alike John Howard Carpenter is a living legend. Carpenter’s work has guided scores of creatives from filmmakers, to musicians, to writers, to illustrators and game designers – a legacy of which very […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Simon Thompson, Top Stories Tagged With: Assault on Precinct 13, Big Trouble in Little China, Christine, Dark Star, escape from l.a., Escape from New York, halloween, In the Mouth of Madness, john carpenter, Memories of an Invisible Man, Prince of Darkness, Starman, The Fog, The Thing, The Ward, They Live, vampires, Village of the Damned

18 Horror Movies From the Past Decade That You Might Have Missed

January 9, 2022 by admin

Hasitha Fernando with a selection of horrors from the past decade that you might have missed… Horror films are a dime-a-dozen, but really good ones? Now that’s a rare commodity. As always some of these good horror films have a tendency of flying under the radar of audiences due to them being indie-films with limited […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Hasitha Fernando, Movies Tagged With: A Dark Song, a girl walks home alone at night, Berberian Sound Studio, Ghost Stories, Goodnight Mommy, I Trapped the Devil, It Comes at Night, Kill List, Mandy, Possum, The Autopsy of Jane Doe, The Devil's Candy, The Eyes of My Mother, The Invitation, The Void, The Wailing, tigers are not afraid, Under The Shadow

The Cinematic Crossovers We Need To See

August 15, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

20 years on from the release of Freddy vs Jason, here are more cinematic crossovers we really need to see… It doesn’t happen too often in cinema but when it does, the crossover special definitely tickles the viewers’ curiosity. Whether it was Freddy vs Jason bringing two horror universes crashing together or the first bout […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Aliens, Arnold, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ash vs. Evil Dead, Bruce Campbell, Daniel Craig, Evil Dead, fast and furious, Freddy vs. Jason, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, Hellboy, Hellraiser, Idris Elba, James Bond, Jamie Clayton, John Wick, Keanu Reeves, Knives Out, Ludacris, luther, Mel Gibson, Morgan Freeman, Pitch Black, Predator, Rambo, Robert Englund, Ron Perlman., Sylvester Stallone, Tom Cruise, Tyrese Gibson, Vin Diesel

The Breakfast Club at 40: The Story Behind the Quintessential Coming-of-Age Teen Drama of the 80s

February 17, 2025 by admin

As the film turns 40, Hasitha Fernando looks at the story behind John Hughes’ 80s classic The Breakfast Club… John Hughes is a name that is synonymous with coming-of-age teen dramas and the 1980s era but one film has always stood out as one of the filmmaker’s best efforts and that is The Breakfast Club. […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Hasitha Fernando, Movies Tagged With: Ally Sheedy, Anthony Michael Hall, Emilio Estevez, John Hughes, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, Paul Gleason, The Breakfast Club

10 Horror Films That Channel True Crime

August 3, 2025 by Vanessa Maki

Vanessa Maki with ten horror films that channel true crime… Throughout horror history, many horror films have been inspired by (loosely or otherwise) true crime cases. Whether it’s the mild inspiration that was taken from Ed Gein for The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), Kevin Williamson being so frightened by the Gainesville Ripper’s murder spree […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Vanessa Maki Tagged With: Black Christmas, Eden Lake, Hounds of Love, Killing Ground, Lake Bodom, Orphan, The Loved Ones, the sacrament, The Strangers, Wolf Creek

Hulk! New Suit! Punisher! Mister Negative!? Everything We Know About Spider-Man: Brand New Day

August 2, 2025 by EJ Moreno

EJ Moreno on what we know about Spider-Man: Brand New Day… Spider-Man Day celebrated the friendly neighborhood superhero and all his web-slinging ways with a new tease for the upcoming fourth film in the Sony/MCU era. With a fresh look at our new suit and some on-set leaks teasing a major villain, it’s time to […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, EJ Moreno, Movies, News, Top Stories Tagged With: Jacob Batalon, Jon Bernthal, Mark Ruffalo, Marvel, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Michael Mando, Sadie Sink, Spider-Man, Spider-Man: Brand New Day, Tom Holland, Zendaya

Feel the Heat: Uncomfortably Hot and Sweaty Films

July 23, 2025 by Tom Jolliffe

Wipe the sweat from your brow and wring out your sodden shirt with these ten uncomfortably hot and sweaty films… I’m sitting here typing in the middle of a rare UK heatwave. We’re a nation more accustomed to four seasons in one day, who prefer to prepare for the cold with carpets and adequate heating, […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: 12 Angry Men, A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge, Angel Heart, Barton Fink, Body Heat, Do the Right Thing, Dog Day Afternoon, the surfer, Wake In Fright, woman in the dunes

Incredible 21st Century Films You May Have Missed

July 23, 2025 by Tom Jolliffe

Keeping things post-millennium, here are 18 incredible movies from the 21st century that may have flown under your radar… The New York Times recently ran an opinion poll from both 500 industry folk and its readers to compile a list of the 100 best films of the 21st century. Among those listed are a number […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: A Fantastic Woman, a girl walks home alone at night, A Quiet Girl, A White White Day, Boy, Burning, frailty, Holy Spider, Joyland, La Chimera, Long Day's Journey Into Night, loveless, Parasite, Personal Shopper, Shiva Baby, Super Happy Forever, Teachers lounge, The Piano Teacher

Inception at 15: The Story Behind Christopher Nolan’s Mind-Melding Sci-Fi Actioner

July 17, 2025 by admin

As the film celebrates its 15th anniversary, Flickering Myth’s Hasitha Fernando looks at the story behind Christopher Nolan’s Inception… Over the years Christopher Nolan has cemented his name in the industry as an auteur filmmaker whose efforts have mesmerized audiences the world over with their inventive storytelling, dazzling visuals and epic scale. Inception can truly […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Hasitha Fernando, Movies, Top Stories Tagged With: Christopher Nolan, Cillian Murphy, Dileep Rao, Elliot Page, inception, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ken Watanabe, Leonardo DiCaprio, Marion Cotillard, Michael Caine, Tom Berenger, Tom Hardy

Eli Roth: Ranking the Films of the Horror Icon

November 10, 2023 by EJ Moreno

EJ Moreno ranks Eli Roth’s movies… Thanksgiving marks Eli Roth’s return to horror after years of kids’ films, documentaries, and one of Bruce Willis’s last theatrical releases. With that, the filmmaker has around twenty years of filmmaking, and Roth has made a name for himself in the modern horror landscape. Love or hate him, Roth […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, EJ Moreno, Movies Tagged With: Cabin Fever, death wish, Eli Roth, Hostel, Hostel: Part II, Knock Knock, The Green Inferno, The House with a Clock In Its Walls

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