As we prepare for the release of The Baby in the Basket, Tom Jolliffe presents essential selection of gothic horror films guaranteed to scare you senseless… Dark, macabre psychological stories set in isolated locations with the uncanny or supernatural. Gothic horror movies are often dripping in atmosphere, enveloping the audience in a deeply unsettling story. […]
Francis Ford Coppola In And Out Of The Wilderness
Simon Thompson chronicles Francis Ford Coppola’s career purgatory post-Apocalypse Now, as the filmmaker flitted between exile and embrace by the mainstream Hollywood studios… Francis Ford Coppola’s name is one that is synonymous with one of the most daring, innovative and exciting eras in American filmmaking, the New Hollywood era (1967- early 80s). Although this period […]
Bram Stoker’s Dracula: Overblown, Excessive and Indulgent But Brilliant
Tom Jolliffe takes a look back at Francis Ford Coppola’s adaption of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, released on this day in 1992… The early 90s. One of the greats of cinema, Francis Ford Coppola had seen his star fall from its apex in the 70s, after some indulgent experimentation in the 80s. Still considered one of […]
The Films of 1992: A Great Year For Movies
Tom Jolliffe ventures back 30 years to 1992, a year full of breakouts, action spectacle, iconic soundtracks and more… In my retrospective delve into the year of 1982, I boldly claimed that it might have been the greatest year of film ever. As I thrust my time machine forward a decade, I wandered the cinematic […]
10 Horror Film Scores to Enjoy Over Halloween
Hasitha Fernando presents a selection of horror film scores to enjoy over Halloween… With All Hallows Eve a creeping round the corner, ‘tis the perfect opportunity to look back at a few film scores which have gone on to define the modern-day horror film. More than films in other genres when it comes to horror, […]
The Greatest Movie Vampires of All Time
Laura Jorden on the greatest vampires to grace cinema… Vampires are such an iconic part of pop culture that it shouldn’t come as a surprise just how many of them there are. Over the decades we have had tons of artists and creatives put their own spin on this trope, transforming them into all sorts […]
October Horrors 2018 Day 18 – Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)
Bram Stoker’s Dracula, 1992. Directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Starring Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder, Anthony Hopkins, Keanu Reeves, Richard E. Grant, Cary Elwes, Billy Campbell, Sadie Frost, and Tom Waits. SYNOPSIS: In the 15th century, Prince Vlad renounces God and calls upon the powers of darkness to grant him eternal life until he is rejoined […]
Comic Book Review – Bram Stoker’s Dracula
Christian Jimenez reviews Bram Stoker’s Dracula… This graphic novel follows the 1992 film adaptation of Francis Ford Coppola of Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Dracula decides to come to London and discovers a woman, Mina, who resembles a lover of his from centuries past. A doctor, Van Helsing, who hunts vampires discovers Dracula’s plant to kidnap Mina […]
Preview of Mike Mignola’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula
Mike Mignola’s adaptation of the 1992 movie Bram Stoker’s Dracula returns to print for the first time in almost 25 years this Wednesday, and you can take a look at a preview here… Mike Mignola is one of the most popular comic book artists of the past 30 years, known for such important works as […]
Bram Stoker’s Dracula by Mike Mignola returning to print
25 years ago one of comics’ most celebrated creators, Mike Mignola, adapted to comics, along with Roy Thomas, the star-studded Columbia Pictures film by Francis Ford Coppola, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, and now IDW has announced that it is bringing this lost treasure back to print with a brand new edition. “I cannot tell you what […]
