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 […]
Candyman’s Nia DaCosta in talks to direct second film in 28 Years Later trilogy
Candyman director Nia DaCosta is heading back to horror with the news that she is in talks to direct the second installment of Danny Boyle’s 28 Years Later trilogy. Deadline report that DaCosta, who is coming off the back of The Marvels, is in discussions with Sony Pictures to helm part two of this new […]
Cillian Murphy producing and possibly starring in 28 Years Later
With an Oscar nomination for Oppenheimer, Cillian Murphy is taking his newfound prestige clout and returning to his roots in horror. The Hollywood Reporter broke the news that Murphy is set to make his zombie return for 28 Years Later, serving as an executive producer for now. The most delightful twist is that THR notes […]
Danny Boyle to direct trilogy-launching sequel to 28 Days Later
Over twenty years after he set his infected loose upon the streets of London, Danny Boyle is returning to the world of 28 Days Later to direct a potential trilogy launching sequel. According to The Hollywood Reporter Boyle will reunite with Alex Garland, who wrote the groundbreaking original, for 28 Years Later, with the hope […]
Danny Boyle and Cillian Murphy tempted to return for Alex Garland’s 28 Months Later
It has been 20 years since Danny Boyle’s infected chased Cillian Murphy across a desolate London landscape and into the English countryside with 28 Days Later, and now the two have been speaking positively about how they’d like to revisit that bleakest of world’s for an oft-rumoured sequel. During an interview with the NME in […]
Twenty Years Back: The Films of 2002
Tom Jolliffe ventures back 20 years to look at the cinematic landscape of 2002… I come bearing bad news. 2002 was not a couple of years ago. No, it was 20 years ago now. I feel very old now in the wake of such a revelation. Has cinema changed much in those two decades? Looking […]
Pandemics in Cinema: Ten Great Films Based on Disease Outbreaks
Hasitha Fernando on pandemics in film… The devastating effect of the recent outbreak of Coronavirus (COVID-19) cannot be overstated. With the disease continuing to spread like wildfire, multiple countries have been brought to their knees, their economies in shambles and casualty numbers rising. Over the years Hollywood has put forth myriad films that deals with […]
Danny Boyle has a “wonderful idea” for another 28 Days Later sequel
Danny Boyle has been doing a lot of talking on the current press tour for his bootleg Beatles musical comedy Yesterday (read our ★★★★ review here). This time though, it isn’t about his revoked licence to kill, but the future of his 2002 non-zombie classic 28 Days Later. Speaking to The Independent, Boyle revealed that […]
October Horrors 2018 Day 6 – 28 Days Later (2002)
28 Days Later, 2002. Directed by Danny Boyle. Starring Cillian Murphy, Naomie Harris, Christopher Eccleston and Brendan Gleeson. SYNOPSIS: Jim awakens from a coma to find London decimated by a deadly virus that has reduced its remaining inhabitants into a horde of rabid violent creatures. It’s safe to say that we’re entering the late stages […]
Alex Garland doubts that 28 Months Later will ever happen
With Annihilation set to debut on Netflix next month, Ex-Machina director Alex Garland has taken part in an Ask Me Anything Q&A on Reddit, where he was asked the question about the possibility of a further film in the 28 Days/Weeks Later franchise. Garland wrote the 2002 original, which was directed by Danny Boyle, and then […]
