Currently screening at the 2021 BFI London Film Festival off the back of some stellar reviews from the Cannes Film Festival, where critics called it “Beauty and the Beast meets The Matrix”, GKIDS Studio have revealed that Mamoru Hosoda’s critically acclaimed Belle will be out in January next year, and have released these stunning new […]
57th Chicago International Film Festival Capsule Review – A Hero
A Hero, 2021.Written and Directed by Asghar Farhadi. Starring Amir Jadidi, Mohsen Tanabande, Fereshteh Sadr Orafaee, Sahar Goldust, Maryam Shahdaie, Ali Reza Jahandideh, Ehsan Goodarzi, Sarina Farhadi, Farrokh Nourbakht, Mohammad Aghebati, and Saleh Karimai.SYNOPSIS:Rahim is in prison because of a debt he was unable to repay. During a two-day leave, he tries to convince his […]
Extreme Cinema – The Last House on the Left (1972)
The Last House on the Left, 1972.Directed by Wes Craven. Starring Sandra Cassel, Lucy Grantham, David Hess, Fred J. Lincoln, Jeramie Rain, Gaylord St. James and Cynthia Carr.The early 1970s was the period in which America was a nation bitterly divided over the Vietnam War. Wes Craven, a then young director of exploitation films, did […]
Extreme Cinema – The Idiots (1998)
The Idiots, 1998.Directed by Lars von Trier. Starring Bodil Jørgensen, Jens Albinus, Anne Louise Hassing and Nikolaj Lie Kass.Lars von Trier’s The Idiots (Idioterne, 1998) features the potentially offensive story of a group of middle class people who pretend to be handicapped as they are unhappy with society. The film begins with Karen (Bodil Jørgensen) […]
Extreme Cinema – Nekromantik 2
Nekromantik 2, 1991.Directed by Jörg Buttgereit. Starring Monika M., Mark Reeder, Lena Braun, Beatrice Manowski and Lene Braun.SYNOPSIS:A young attractive nurse is torn between her love for her new boyfriend and her desire for the remains of the corpse she keeps in her apartment.In director Jörg Buttgereit’s follow-up to his controversial 1987 film, a nurse named Monika […]
Underrated Horror Comedy Movies That You Must Watch
Marvelous Videos presents ten laugh-out-loud horror comedies…Horror comedy – it’s literally an oxymoron. How can any piece of storytelling make sense if it’s trying to both scare someone and make them laugh their head off? Genre mixers have existed for a while now, but those combinations have at least made sense: action and fantasy, science […]
Cheesy But Entertaining B-Movie Monster Horror Films That No One Talks About
Marvelous Videos presents B-movie monster horror films from the depths of cheesiness…B-movies have consistently benefitted from lack of interference from studio heads. They represent what happens when you have unadulterated auteurism; filmmakers given a limited budget and told to go nuts. Producers are aware that there is a niche appeal from moviegoers. The best way […]
The Best Superhero Horror Movies
Marvelous Videos presents the best superhero horror movies…One of the reasons the superhero genre will never go the way of the western is because of how malleable it is. Thanks to wonderful productions from DC and Marvel, we have already seen it occupy a variety of categories, from thriller to western to crime drama to […]
Underappreciated B-Horror Movies By Great Directors
Marvelous Videos presents under-loved B-horror films from great directors….Even famous niche directors have underrated gems in their filmography. They’ve created so much wonderful content for audiences (and fans!) to digest that some of their smaller/undermarketed works fly under the radar. Which is a shame because they put just as much effort into them as they […]
Underrated Horror Franchises That Are Ripe for Reinvention
Marvelous Videos presents with a selection of horror franchises ripe for reinvention…When a horror movie strikes gold, it’s almost guaranteed a slew of increasingly worse sequels courtesy of its guaranteed box office draw. However, when a horror movie doesn’t strike a chord with audiences, it means you’re lucky to get a sequel in direct-to-DVD form […]
