Tom Jolliffe on the timeless work of the late, great Ennio Morricone… Alongside the visual imagery in a film, the accompanying music has an ability to work in perfect unison to boost the emotional impact of a sequence. Sometimes a score can enhance a scene, or the music overall can take a picture up a […]
10 Essential Creature Features
Tom Jolliffe offers up 10 essential creature features… Who doesn’t love a good old creature feature? They still seem to be immensely popular, with recent reboots for the Jurassic Park and Godzilla franchises. That popularity in fact has been booming in the Asian markets in particular (whilst some of the recent big monster films have […]
NECA celebrates The Thing’s 40th anniversary with Convention Exclusive poster figure
NECA has unveiled its 2022 Convention Exclusive The Thing figure, which marks the 40th anniversary of John Carpenter’s 1982 horror by bringing to life the film’s iconic poster artwork. Check out the official promotional images here… From The Thing, John Carpenter’s acclaimed slow-build horror film classic! It follows a 12-man research team that finds something […]
Ben Grimm returns in preview of Marvel’s The Thing #1
It’s clobberin’ time this coming Wednesday as Ben Grimm takes centre stage in the new limited series The Thing; check out a preview of the first issue here… THE NEXT BIG THING Begins Here! Renowned storyteller Walter Mosley brings his signature style to a sweeping saga of Yancy Street’s favorite son that will range from […]
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, […]
It’s Clobberin’ Time! Marvel announces The Thing limited series
Marvel has announced that bestselling mystery and crime writer Walter Mosley is teaming with artist Tom Reilly (X-Men: Marvels Snapshots) to put the spotlight on Ben Grimm with a new six-issue limited series The Thing. This fall, renowned storyteller Walter Mosley, known for his definitive and bestselling international work in mystery and crime fiction, brings […]
Captivating Origin Stories of Iconic Horror Villains
Marvelous Videos delves into the captivating origin stories of iconic horror villains… It’s one thing to create a unique antagonist in a horror film- so many have been brought to the big screen that the sheer creativity is astounding! However, it’s another to give them a proper motivation for doing what they are doing. Often […]
Horror Prequels Unfairly Destroyed By Critics
Marvelous Videos presents horror prequels that got unnecessarily slammed… We said it before and we’ll say it again: critics aren’t always right. As a website and blog dedicated to film criticism, we understand this more than anyone. Movies, like any other piece of art, are ultimately subjective. You may like something that others despise, and […]
Horror Movies With Unbelievable Practical Gore Effects
Marvelous Videos serves up a slice of practical gore effects… Computer-generated imagery, or CGI, has gotten a bad rep these days from film school dropout channels that believe the older way of creating is inherently better. No matter the flaws in their arguments, though, they do raise a point that, without proper rendering, CGI has […]
10 Cosmic Horror Movies To Watch This Halloween
Marvelous Videos presents ten essential cosmic horror flicks… As the TV series Lovecraft Country alludes to, H. P. Lovecraft was a mixed character of a human being. But the one thing he did right was point out just how ridiculous the human ego was when it came to the importance of humanity. As he so […]
