During today’s first annual BlumFest event, Blumhouse Productions has announced that the fifth instalment of the Insidious franchise is moving forward, with Patrick Wilson (Insidious, The Conjuring) set to make his directorial debut on the film. “I’m honored and thrilled to be at the helm of the next Insidious installment, which will provide an amazing chance […]
Movie Review – His House (2020)
His House, 2020. Written and Directed by Remi Weekes. Starring Sope Dirisu, Wunmi Mosaku, Matt Smith, Malaika Wakoli-Abigaba, Javier Botet, Emily Taaffe, Rasaq Kukoyi, Vivien Bridson Cornell, John Bradley Banton, Gamba Cole, and Scott Michael Wagstaff. SYNOPSIS: A refugee couple makes a harrowing escape from war-torn South Sudan, but then they struggle to adjust to […]
Sinister’s Scott Derrickson and C. Robert Cargill to adapt Joe Hill’s The Black Phone
According to a report from Discussing Film, director Scott Derrickson is teaming with his Sinister and Doctor Strange screenwriter C. Robert Cargill for an adaptation of Joe Hill’s The Black Phone at Blumhouse. Published in Hill’s 20th Century Ghosts short story collection, the synopsis for The Black Phone reads: John Finney is in trouble. The […]
Folk horror The Curse of Audrey Earnshaw hits VOD; see the trailer, poster and images
Coinciding with its VOD release, Epic Pictures has shared a trailer, poster and images have been released for writer-director Thomas Robert Lee’s folk horror The Curse of Audrey Earnshaw which follows a mother and daughter who are accused of witchcraft by the townsfolk of their devout rural community; take a look here… Set against the […]
Extreme Cinema – A Clockwork Orange (1971)
A Clockwork Orange, 1971. Directed by Stanley Kubrick. Starring Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael Bates, and Warren Clarke. In a future British society law and order has completely broken down allowing gangs of youths to roam the streets looking for trouble. Arrested for murder, gang leader Alex Delarge is reconditioned and set free into this […]
Movie Review – Snowden (2016)
Snowden, 2016. Directed by Oliver Stone. Starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Shailene Woodley, Zachary Quinto, Melissa Leo, Scott Eastwood, Tom Wilkinson, Joely Richardson, Timothy Olyphant, Ben Schnetzer, Ben Chaplin, Rhys Ifans, Nicolas Cage, and Edward Snowden. SYNOPSIS: The NSA’s illegal surveillance techniques are leaked to the public by one of the agency’s employees, Edward Snowden, in the […]
Zack Snyder announces that Justice League reshoots are underway
When it was revealed earlier this that Zack Snyder’s original cut of Justice League would be coming to HBO Max, it was said that Snyder and company would not be undertaking any additional photography as the filmmaker looked to put the finishing touches to his DC team-up. However, we learned last month that plans had […]
Movie Review – The Impossible (2012)
The Impossible, 2012. Directed by Juan Antonio Bayona. Starring Naomi Watts, Ewan McGregor and Tom Holland. SYNOPSIS: During a holiday in Thailand, a family find themselves caught up in one of the worst natural catastrophes of our time. As a cinematic achievement, The Impossible does so many things right it’s very hard to fault it. […]
October Horrors 2020 – Southbound (2015)
Southbound, 2015. Directed by Radio Silence, Roxane Benjamin, David Bruckner and Patrick Horvath. Starring Chad Villella, Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Fabianne Therese, Hannah Marks, Nathalie Love, Kate Beahan and Davey Johnson. SYNOPSIS: An anthology tale in which five strangers are each forced to confront nightmarish horrors and their own dark pasts on a lonely desolate highway. Everyone […]
Movie Review – Assassination Nation (2018)
Assassination Nation, 2018. Directed by Sam Levinson. Starring Odessa Young, Hari Nef, Suki Waterhouse, Abra, Colman Domingo, Bill Skarsgård, Joel McHale, Anika Noni Rose, Bella Thorne, Maude Apatow, and Cody Christian. SYNOPSIS: This is a thousand percent a true story about how the quiet, all-American town of Salem absolutely lost its mind. Fuck me up […]
