TV/Film
The First Omen (20th Century Studios)
“He was born of a jackal, Mr Thorn!” Infamous words spat in desperation by Patrick Troughton’s Father Brennan in the original Omen movie back in 1976 – almost fifty years ago now. It was arresting…
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Late Night With The Devil (Vertigo Releasing)
There are moments, that are unfortunately becoming increasingly few and far between, when a film catches you off guard, twists itself around your cerebellum, and leaves a lingering terror deep in your soul. The…
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City of the Living Dead (Arrow)
There was a time when horror films pushed against the boundaries of what the mainstream press laughably referred to as “good taste” and earned and invoked the ire of hundreds of thousands of morally uptight…
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Horrors Of The Black Museum (Studio Canal)
Way back in 1959, as with all the best horror movies, there were calls for Arthur Crabtree’s ‘The Horrors Of The Black Museum” to be banned, but not for it’s gore or scare factor, more…
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The Daily Doctor – Whoniversal Meditations On Life And How To Live It
Written by: Simon Guerrier and Peter Anghelides Published by: BBC Books Fact 1 – Doctor Who, as a program with 60 years of dialogue, heroism, villainy, folly and wisdom, can, if you let it, make…
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The Daleks – In Colour
The Daleks – In Colour Written by: Terry Nation Directed by: Richard Martin Colourization by: Rich Tipple Edited by: Benjamin Cook As part of the celebrations of sixty years of Doctor Who this year, the…
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Godzilla Minus One (Toho Studios)
For as long as I can remember, I’ve marked out for Kaiju films. I don’t use the term “mark” lightly, I do so with purpose and intent, because when it comes to giant monsters “fan”…
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Hellraiser – Quartet of Torment: Hellraiser III: Hell On Earth
Screenplay by: Peter Atkins Directed by: Anthony Hickox Something strange tended to happen to big Eighties and Nineties horror franchises when they hit their third movie. Friday the Thirteenth, Part III was both a direct…
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Hellraiser – Quartet of Torment: Hellbound – Hellraiser II
Screenplay by: Peter Atkins, from a story by Clive Barker Directed by: Tony Randel Hellraiser II has at its core some glorious ideas to advance the original Hellraiser into its own expanded universe. We see,…
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Hellraiser Quartet of Torment: Hellraiser – The Original
Written and Directed by: Clive Barker Hellraiser as a movie is 36 years old. Written and directed by Clive Barker, adapted from his own novella The Hellbound Heart in 1987, like a lot of wildly…
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Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story (Kaleidoscope)
From the creators of the recent Robocop documentary Robo-Doc comes their latest venture Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story. Englund of course is the man behind horror icon Freddy Krueger, arguably the first…
