Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has announced that Sam Raimi’s 1981 horror classic The Evil Dead is set to arrive on 4K Ultra HD on November 16th, check out the cover artwork and bonus feature details below…SUPPORT FLICKERING MYTH: Order via Amazon US or Amazon UKWriter/Director Raimi’s (Spider-Man, Drag Me to Hell) relentless, gore-spattered debut is […]
The Battle for Vampire Superiority: The Lost Boys vs. Near Dark
Tom Jolliffe presides over a showdown between the cult 1987 vampire flicks The Lost Boys and Near Dark…The vampire has sucked his merry way through cinema history, from the silent era, to the R-Patz era. We’ve seen many incarnations, many genres, from Christopher Lee to angsty teens, from horror to camp comedy. Perhaps the vintage […]
George Clooney to adapt John Grisham’s Calico Joe
Variety is reporting that George Clooney has signed on to produce and potentially direct a feature film adaptation of the John Grisham novel Calico Joe.Published in 2012, Calico Joe tells the story of a promising baseball player who is put into a coma for three decades after being hit by a pitch. It was partly […]
Jean-Claude Van Damme at 60
As Jean-Claude Van Damme celebrates a milestone birthday, Tom Jolliffe looks back at a career that has seen box office success, and flirtation with a comeback as a critically acclaimed actor…If you even have a passing appreciation of late 20th century action cinema, you’ll know very well who Jean-Claude Van Damme is. You’ll probably also […]
Ranking The Ten Most Impactful Slasher Movie Franchises
EJ Moreno ranks the ten biggest slasher franchises…From Halloween to Hellraiser, slashers are a huge part of what makes horror so great. But who is the king of the kills? Which slasher franchise ranks as the best of the best?Below, our host EJ Moreno dives into the ten biggest slasher franchises of all time and […]
Jai Courtney talks The Suicide Squad and The Flash
During an interview with Collider to promote his new film Honest Thief, actor Jai Courtney has been speaking about his impending DC Extended Universe return as Captain Boomerang in James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad, and how the film will differ from his first outing in David Ayer’s 2016 supervillain team-up Suicide Squad. “It’s a big-ass […]
October Horrors 2020 – Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992)
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, 1992.Directed by David Lynch. Starring Sheryl Lee, Moira Kelly, David Bowie, Chris Issak, Harry Dean Stanton, Ray Wise and Kyle MacLachlan.SYNOPSIS:In the town of Twin Peaks, prom queen Laura Palmer struggles through a troubled life with sex and drugs, all the while attempting to uncover the identity of the […]
2020 BFI London Film Festival – Bad Tales
Bad Tales, 2020.Directed by the D’Innocenzo brothers. Starring Elio Germano, Max Malatesta, Gabriel Montesi, Cristina Pellegrino, Giulia Melillo, Justin Korovkin, Giulietta Rebeggiani, Tommaso Di Cola, Ileana D’Ambra and Laura Borgioli.SYNOPSIS:A series of families living in or close to Rome intersect as the actions of parents exert a corrupting influence on their children.If parents are messed […]
Let The Right One In: A Masterpiece of Poetic Horror
Tom Jolliffe looks back at the seminal vampire film and why it remains one of the best movies of this century…The memory of seeing this for the first time still feels fresh, but Let The Right One In, is now as old as its central protagonist Oskar (12 years old). I hadn’t caught it upon […]
Movie Review – Cicada (2020)
Cicada, 2020.Directed by Matt Fifer and Kieran Mulcare. Starring Matt Fifer, Sheldon D. Brown, Jazmin Grace Grimaldi, Sandra Bauleo, Michael Potts, Jason Greene and Cobie Smulders.SYNOPSIS:A bisexual man swaps casual sex for commitment when he finally meets someone with whom he believes he can truly be himself.If gay people are under-represented on the big screen […]
