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Movie Review – The Girl with the Needle (2024)

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The Girl with the Needle, 2024. Directed by Magnus von Horn Starring Vic Carmen Sonne, Trine Dyrholm, Besir Zeciri, Ari Alexander, Per Thiim Thim, Joachim Fjelstrup, Ava Knox Martin SYNOPSIS: Copenhagen 1919: A young worker finds herself unemployed and pregnant. She meets Dagmar, who runs an underground adoption agency. A strong connection grows but her […]

Movie Review – Oddity (2024)

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Oddity, 2024. Directed by Damian McCarthy. Starring Carolyn Bracken, Jonathan French, Steve Wall, Gwilym Lee, Tadhg Murphy, Caroline Menton. SYNOPSIS: A blind medium uses haunted items to uncover the truth about her twin sister’s murder. Damian McCarthy’s previous movie Caveat, was a slow-burning mood piece that had a few pacing and script issues, but it […]

Ten Essential British Horror Movies You Need To See

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Tom Jolliffe looks at ten essential British horror movies… We love a good horror film at Flickering Myth (so much so that we’re releasing our very own, The Baby in the Basket, next month!). British cinema has produced many great horror films that are definitely inspiring and we’ve put together a list of essentials for […]

Korean supernatural thriller Dark Nuns gets a trailer and poster

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Well Go USA has shared a poster and trailer for Dark Nuns, director Kwon Hyeok-Jae’s spinoff of the 2015 South Korean supernatural thriller The Priests. The film centres on two nuns, Yunia and Michaela, as they attempt to perform a forbidden exorcism ritual on a young boy possessed by an evil entity. The film stars […]

Comic Book Preview – Altered States: Purgatori Grindhouse

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Dynamite Entertainment puts its own What If…?/Esleworlds-style spin on spin on the winged vampire goddess Purgatori this coming Wednesday with the one-shot comic Altered States: Purgatori Grindhouse; get yourself a sneak peek at the issue below with the official preview… In the summer of 1976, Tori Sachs and her friends went to an innocent beach […]

Nosferatu director Robert Eggers confirms extended cut coming to Blu-ray

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As Nosferatu continues its global roll out following its Christmas Day release in the United States, director Robert Eggers has confirmed that fans will be able to enjoy an extended cut of the hit gothic horror reimagining when the film arrives on Blu-ray in the coming months. Speaking to Esquire to coincide with its UK […]

Beetlejuice joins Mezco Toys’ retro-style ‘5 Points’ line with action figure 2-pack

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Mezco Toyz has revealed its retro-inspired ‘5 Points’ Beetlejuice action figure set from Tim Burton’s 1988 supernatural comedy which contains figures for Michael Keaton’s Ghost with the Most in both his signature black and white suit and his red wedding tuxedo. The set is available to pre-order now, priced at $40; check out the promotional […]

Viola Davis action thriller G20 sets April premiere on Prime Video

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Prime Video has set an April 10th premiere date for G20, an action thriller starring Viola Davis as the US President when the global political G20 summit is attacked. The film will see Davis take on her enemies to protect her family and fellow world leaders. G20 follows U.S. President Danielle Sutton (Davis), who becomes […]

Bruce Springsteen says fans will “deeply recognize” Jeremy Allen White’s performance in Deliver Me From Nowhere biopic

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The Boss has given his vote of confidence to The Bear star Jeremy Allen White. In an interview with Sirius XM’s E Street Radio, Bruce Springsteen praised White’s performance of him in the upcoming biopic Deliver Me From Nowhere which follows the making of Springsteen’s 1982 album Nebraska. Deliver Me From Nowhere sees White playing The Boss during a pivotal […]