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Fantastical, Flawed and Madcap: 80s British Horror Cinema

March 9, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

We take a look back at the curious case of 80s British Horror – an era of odd fusions, oddities, indulgent auteurs and flawed cult favourites… Think of those iconic periods in horror around the world. German expressionist horror of the 1920s and 30s, the Giallo boom of the 60s and 70s, British hammer horror […]

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The Best Alien B-Movie Rip-Offs

July 1, 2021 by Gerald James

Oscar Wilde once said “imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness” and Ridley Scott’s 1979 film Alien is as close to greatness as a sci-fi horror film can get but not even Scott himself could have foreseen the rip-offs that would follow in his ground-breaking film’s wake. Plenty of […]

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