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Overlooked Horror Actors and Their Best Performance

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While these actors aren’t specifically known for horror, their work in the genre is easy to overlook… Within the horror community, we often focus our admiration and attention on some of the more iconic actors. If it’s classics like Bela Lugosi or Christopher Lee to modern icons like Sarah Michelle Gellar or Bruce Campbell, we […]

Ten Essential Films of the 1940s

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Tom Jolliffe with ten essential films of the 1940s… We recently took a dive back to the 1950s in a quest to prove Quentin Tarantino wrong in his claim that it was one of the weakest decades for cinema. Sorry QT, but there are just far too many greats to come close to paling in […]

Exploring George A. Romero’s Non-Zombie Movies

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EJ Moreno reflects on George A. Romero’s work outside of zombies… The late George A. Romero invented the modern zombie film and helped to redefine the rules of the sub-genre time and time again. It’s safe to say Romero is often looked at as just the zombie movie guy, but that’s limited the scope of […]

20 Epic Car Chases That Will Drive You Wild

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Hit the pedal to the metal and practice your handbrake turns, it’s time for twenty epic car chases that will drive you wild… You can rely on the action genre to set your pulse racing with shootouts, fight scenes, foot chases and aerial duels. There’s another enjoyable kind of action sequence that genre fans love […]

The Must-See Horror Movies From Every Decade

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EJ Moreno on the best horror movies in cinema history… Horror is a film genre as old as the medium itself. Since the start of the cinemas, people have packed the seats in hopes of getting some chills and thrills. As a life-long fan of the genre, it’s essential to recognize the history of horror […]

Seven Famous Cursed Movie Productions

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Disasters, terrible luck, radiation poisoning and death. We look at some famous cursed film productions… With Flickering Myth’s first foray into movie-making on The Baby in the Basket now underway, we’ve found ourselves faced with a number of problems throughout pre-production as recently covered in our pre-production update. We’ve dealt with unavoidable dropouts, unexpected costs […]

The Essential Films of John Woo

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Tom Jolliffe offers up an essential John Woo selection… John Woo has been a little quiet of late, but the legendary Hong Kong filmmaker is set to make his Hollywood return this year with his “comeback” movie Silent Night, which has just received its first trailer this week.  To the uninitiated, John Woo was once […]

The Essential Exorcism Movies of the 21st Century

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Hasitha Fernando on the essential exorcism movies of the 21st century… Every year the entertainment industry puts forth a few horror movies that concern exorcism and possession, and for the most part they are either easily forgettable or simply not worth your time. But every now and then, the creatively bankrupt bowels of Hollywood do […]

The (00)7 Most Underrated James Bond Movies

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Don’t hit that ejector button, because it’s time to look at the (00)7 most underrated James Bond movies… Every fan has their favourite Bond films. Regular staples which appear high up in those lists include Goldfinger, From Russia With Love, GoldenEye, Casino Royale and Live and Let Die. There have also been some franchise howlers, […]

The Prisoner: The Classic British TV Series Revisited

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Hasitha Fernando revisits the classic British TV series The Prisoner… Television series come and go, often being mere products of their time, adhering predictably to ongoing trends and pretty much giving exactly what its audience wants. But every now and then, there appears a television series that breaks that mold, boldly playing against established norms […]