Casey Chong with ten essential Italian horror films of the 1980s… If the 1970s marked the golden era of Italian horror, offering us genre-defining classics from The Bird with the Crystal Plumage to Deep Red, and of course, Suspiria, then the 80s era was best described as the culmination of the country’s distinctive flair for […]
The Top 10 Horror Movies of 1985
Casey Chong takes a trip back 40 years to look at the best horror movies of 1985… 1985 may have been a banner year for hit movies that reached the pop-culture milestones, notably Back to the Future, The Goonies and Rambo: First Blood Part II. But let’s not forget the horror genre, which equally enjoyed […]
Essential Demonic Horror Movies To Send Shivers Down Your Spine
Grab your Holy Bible and rosary beads as we look at ten essential demonic horror movies that will send shivers down your spine… As Flickering Myth takes a leap into independent film with The Baby in the Basket, our own little slice of demonic horror (releasing on DVD and Digital this February!), maybe now is […]
The Gruesome Brilliance of 1980s Italian Horror Cinema
Tom Jolliffe goes back to the 80s to look at a crazy, gore-filled period in Italian horror cinema… There’s a great legacy in Italian horror. Most famously, the giallo films which rose to prominence through the 60’s and 70’s (led first by Mario Bava, and taken to new heights via Dario Argento) put Italian horror […]
Exclusive trailer for Arrow’s Molto Argento: The Dario Argento Collection
Streaming service Arrow is celebrating the works of legendary filmmaker Dario Argento with a collection of the Italian horror maestro’s finest works as part of the Molto Argento: The Dario Argento Collection, and we have an exclusive trailer for the season which includes classics like The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, The Cat o’ Nine […]
Second Generation Directors: The Apple Doesn’t Fall Far From the Tree
Tom Jolliffe takes a look at directors following in their parents’ footsteps… Undoubtedly the influence of your parents plays a big part in shaping you as a person. In the almost surreal world of cinema and movie-making, there will be a kind of magical allure at the power a film director can wield. Offspring of […]
Blu-ray Review – Demons 1 & 2 Limited Edition Set
Demons 1 & 2 Limited Edition set Directed by Lamberto Bava. Starring Bobby Rhodes, Geretta Geretta, Urbano Barberini, Karl Zinny, Natasha Hovey, Michele Soavi, Asia Argento, David Knight, Nicoletta Elmi, Lino Salemme, Coralina Cataldi-Tassoni. SYNOPSIS: Lamberto Bava’s Bonsoir heavy metal classic splat-fests get a 4K re-issue from Arrow Video in what is possibly the greatest […]
Arrow Video releasing new 4K restorations of Demons and Demons 2
Arrow Video has announced the upcoming February 22nd release of Lamberto Bava and Dario Argento’s classic 80s horror films Demons and Demons 2 in a limited edition box set featuring brand new 4K restorations of both movies from the original camera negatives, as well as a host of special features. In the early 1980s, Dario […]
October Horrors 2021 – Demons (1985)
Demons, 1985. Directed by Lamberto Bava. Starring Urbano Barberini, Natasha Hovey, Karl Zinny, Paola Cozzo and Nicoletta Elmi. SYNOPSIS: A group of random people are invited to a screening of a mysterious movie, only to find themselves trapped in the theatre with ravenous demons. After a tough year (to put it mildly), it’s nice to […]
Poster and trailer for psychological horror Demons
Ahead of its release this October, a poster and trailer have arrived online for the upcoming psychological horror Demons. The film is written and directed by Miles Doleac who also stars alongside Andrew Divoff, John Schneider, Lindsay Anne Williams, Steven Brand, Kristina Emerson, and Gary Grubbs; check them out below… Eight years ago, Father Colin Hampstead […]
