Tom Jolliffe takes a look back at a defining moment in Cannon Films canon…. What’s the craziest mo-fo of a film you’ve ever seen? There have been plenty of odd films. The beauty of cinema is in its variety. I’ve written about a slightly more critically acclaimed film Cannon made called Runaway Train. I suggested […]
Essential Cult 80s Movies You May Have Missed
Tom Jolliffe with ten great cult 80s films you may have missed… The cult film. From the obscure gems with an undying loyalty from their small following, to the mass cults who followed Star Wars back in the 80s. Sometimes a film just strikes a chord and has a certain unique charm or imperfect quality […]
The Essential Cannon Films Scores
Tom Jolliffe looks at some of the best musical scores from Cannon Films’ oeuvre… A good film score can elevate the picture and manipulate the viewer. It can illicit excitement, fear, intrigue, melancholy and more. It’s not uncommon for a film score to become just as legendary an aspect of a particular film as anything […]
Ten Essential British Horror Movies You Have To See
Tom Jolliffe looks at ten essential British horror movies… We love a good horror film at Flickering Myth (so much so that we’re making own very own with The Baby in the Basket!). British cinema has produced many great horror films that are definitely inspiring and we’ve put together a list of essentials for you to […]
Fantastical, Flawed and Madcap: 80s British Horror Cinema
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 […]
Sirens from Space: Species and Under The Skin
Tom Jolliffe double bills Species and Under The Skin… The sexy siren, luring men to their inevitable doom by taking on the form of a gorgeous woman. Like cats to catnip, the men salivate their way to demise. In one corner we have Species, the tale of a scientific splicing of human and alien DNA […]
Lifeforce is coming to 4K Ultra HD from Shout! Factory in May
Here’s some great news for fans of Tobe Hooper’s Lifeforce, as we’ll soon be able to enjoy the filmmaker’s 1985 Cannon Films cult classic – and the talents of French starlet Mathilda May – in full 4K glory, with Shout! Factory announcing the upcoming release of a 4K Ultra HD Collector’s Edition set this May. […]
Nine Gems from Cannon Films
Marvelous Videos presents nine gems from Cannon Films… If you grew up in the 80s, chances are you became (intentionally or unintentionally) familiar with a production company called The Cannon Group, Inc. They were responsible for an influx of action pictures throughout the 1980s that featured to some of the most iconic action heroes we […]
Marvelous Sci-Fi Horror Movies for Alien Lovers
Marvelous Videos presents alien creature features galore…. Ridley Scott’s Alien and James Cameron’s Aliens were truly something special. They not only took the preexisting concept of an extraterrestrial threat and made it fresh, but they also made it iconic. This was thanks, in large part, to the titular antagonist(s)- the xenomorph. Designed by H. R. Giger and played […]
October Horrors 2017 Day 28 – Lifeforce (1985)
Lifeforce, 1985. Directed by Tobe Hooper. Starring Steve Railsback, Peter Firth, Frank Finlay, Melinda May, and Patrick Stewart. SYNOPSIS: A joint UK-US space mission aboard the HMS Churchill takes a strange turn when the crew stumbles upon an enormous craft hidden in the tail of Halley’s Comet, with three seemingly humanoid bodies entombed within. Contact […]