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The Erotic Horror Renaissance of the 1990s: Where Cinemax Met Creature Features

November 23, 2025 by admin

Adam Page on the erotic horror renaissance of the 90s… Look, sitting here in front of this keyboard, I can’t pretend it wasn’t a weird time. The decade of the 90s was a lot of things: flannel, teen angst, the inexplicable popularity of acid washed jeans. But somewhere between the Berlin Wall being torn down […]

Filed Under: Adam Page, Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Top Stories Tagged With: bordello of blood, embrace of the vampire, Full Moon Features, Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers, Jim Wynorski, Sorceress, Species, The Bare Wench Project

Noirvember: The Straight-to-Video Essential Selection

November 23, 2025 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe rounds out Noirvember with a selection of straight to video noir films… Dark tales of murder, intrigue, adultery, crime, punishment, femme fatales and lots of ominous dark shadow. Film noir and in more recent cinema history, neo-noir, have offered up an array of moody gems. Noir has infused so much of the action, […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Boogie Boy, Cover Up, Cypher, Give 'Em Hell Malone, Payback, Scorned, Shade, The Boondock Saints, The Butcher, Until Death

10 Extreme Horror Films You Won’t Forget

November 22, 2025 by Vanessa Maki

Vanessa Maki with 10 extreme horror movies you won’t soon forget… Stepping into the world of extreme horror isn’t a wise choice for everyone. It might make you regret it if you’re not someone who can handle much in the way of extreme violence or gore, much less transgression in film, though if you’re someone […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Top Stories, Vanessa Maki Tagged With: Deadgirl, I Saw the Devil, I Spit On Your Grave, Ichi the Killer, Inside, Martyrs, Megan is Missing, The House with 100 Eyes, The Loved Ones, the sadness

The Essential Hirokazu Kore-eda Films

November 22, 2025 by Tom Jolliffe

It’s time to take a look at a modern master of Japanese (and beyond) cinema with the essential Hirokazu Kore-eda films… Often seen as the heir apparent to Yasujiro Ozu, this director may not be immediately recognised by Western audiences, but chances are you may have seen one or two of his more well-travelled films. […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: After Life, Air Doll, Broker, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Maborosi, Monster, Nobody Knows, Shoplifters, Still Walking, The Third Murder

10 Essential 21st Century Neo-Noirs for Noirvember

November 21, 2025 by Tom Jolliffe

We continue our Noirvember offerings with ten essential 21st century neo-noirs… It’s time once more to take a deep dive into the brutal and fatalistic world of noir as Noirvember rolls on. From film noir of the 30s and 40s, to great revisionist periods like the 1970s, there has always been a noir-infused selection of […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: A Bittersweet Life, Blade Runner 2049, Collateral, Killer Joe, Layer Cake, Memento, Mulholland Drive, Nightcrawler, No Country for Old Men, The Secret in Their Eyes

10 Essential 1970s Neo-Noirs to Watch This Noirvember

November 17, 2025 by Tom Jolliffe

We continue our celebration of Noirvember with ten essential neo-noirs from the 1970s… From the dark nights to the damp rainy streets and glare of the neon lights, everything about November makes you feel like you’re living in a neo-noir movie. With Noirvember in full swing, it’s time to look at a golden era of […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, Coffy, film noir, Klute, Le Circle Rouge, neo noir, night moves, Noir, Serpico, The American Friend, The Killing of A Chinese Bookie, The Long Goodbye, The Yakuza

10 Actors Who Almost Became James Bond

November 17, 2025 by Tom Jolliffe

It’s time to look back at some of the James Bond contenders from years gone by… As we eagerly (or maybe not that eagerly) await final confirmation as to who will play James Bond in the new Amazon era, under the auteur gaze of Denis Villeneuve, there have been lots of rumours and names in […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Cary Grant, Casino Royale, Christopher Lambert, Clint Eastwood, Clive Owen, Croupier, Daniel Craig, David Niven, Dr. No, george lazenby, GoldenEye, Henry Cavill, Ian Ogilvy, James Bond, James Mason, Liam Neeson, Michael Caine, Moonraker, Octopussy, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Paul mcGann, Pierce Brosnan, ralph fiennes, Roger Moore, Sam Neill, Sean Connery, Terence Stamp, The Living Daylights, The Man From Uncle, Timothy Dalton, Tomorrow Never Dies

10 Essential 90s Noir Movies to Enjoy This Noirvember

November 10, 2025 by Tom Jolliffe

November is a good time for noir cinema, and the 90s were full of great and underseen gems; Flickering Myth’s Tom Jolliffe presents a selection of ten you need to see… Dark tales with morally obtuse protagonists, criminal plots, dripping in shadowy aesthetics and neglected corners of the towns or cities they’re set. Film noir […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Cop Land, Croupier, Deep Cover, Hard Eight, One False Move, Payback, Red Rock West, The King Of New York, The Limey, U Turn

Halloween vs Christmas: Which Season Reigns Supreme in Cinema?

November 8, 2025 by Tom Jolliffe

Halloween season is over, and it’ll soon be Christmas and onto some festive favourites, but which is the better season for film fans? We’ve just seen out Halloween and for many, a month of bingeing on horror cinema, old, new, good and (enjoyably) bad. No sooner does the dust settle and the pumpkins are left […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Die Hard, Evil Dead, Friday the 13th, halloween, Indiana Jones, James Bond, Jingle All the Way, Love Actually, The Lord of the Rings

10 Essential Frankenstein-Inspired Movies You Need To See

November 8, 2025 by Tom Jolliffe

Tighten those neck bolts, it’s time for ten essential Frankenstein-inspired movies… Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is a literary classic and one of my all-time favourite books, from an era of fiction I love. The tale of the titular doctor creating a reanimated monster has inspired plenty of literature since but it has also provided ample inspiration […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Blade Runner, frankenhooker, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Poor Things, Re-Animator, RoboCop, The Fly, The Terminator, Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning, Young Frankenstein

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