Sterling K Brown’s got killer lines and everyone’s gonna die in the new trailer for The Predator By Jonathan Hatfull 31-08-18 378 A new trailer has arrived for Shane Black’s The Predator and it’s definitely the funniest, and probably the best one yet. You can read the synopsis for The Predator here: From the outer reaches
Month: August 2018
Long before movies surrounding the likes of the Avengers, Spider-Man and Black Panther started dominating cinema screens, there was another Marvel Comics character that lead his own trilogy: Blade. We last saw the half-vampire, half-human in 2004 but now, actor Wesley Snipes has teased two new projects that seem to suggest the titular superhero will
Now that 2018’s Arrow Video FrightFest is over, here is a round-up of eight more films (The Most Assassinated Woman In The World; Book Of Monsters; Heretiks; Chuck Steel: Night Of The Trampires; Life After Flash; Hell Is Where The Home Is; Anna And The Apocalypse; Open 24 Hours) and a short (Final Stop) that
The old saying that beauty is only skin deep has inspired a legion of horror films, but while Takeshi Sone’s latest has a plastic surgery at its centre, it’s much more interested in the lingering effects of emotional, rather than physical, trauma. In other words, what starts out feeling like a chilly Cronenbergian horror takes
Writer-director Demián Rugna’s Terrified was one of FrightFest’s most hotly anticipated films, promising full-blooded scares (a promise made by the filmmaker in a charming and immensely quotable video intro), and it definitely starts with a bang. No sooner have we had the obligatory but decidedly creepy “hearing voices” scene than we’re witnessing a horrifying and
Logan Marshall-Green gets creatively violent in brutal SF revenge movie Upgrade By Jonathan Hatfull 31-08-18 4,800 Released: 31 August 2018 Certificate: 15 Director: Leigh Whannell Writer: Leigh Whannell Cast: Logan Marshall-Green, Betty Gabriel, Harrison Gilbertson, Benedict Hardie, Linda Cropper Distributor: Universal If you like this, try… Robocop A murdered cop is given a new cyborg
This year’s FrightFest features three documentaries that hold up a mirror to the festival audience. For Cult Of Terror, Wolfman’s Got Nards and FrightFest: Beneath The Dark Heart Of Cinema all show that strange, intimate and weirdly obsessive connection that horror fans have to the films that feed their insatiable hunger for cathartic thrills and
With their previous film JeruZalem, Israeli brothers Doron and Yoav Paz refreshed found footage with intradiegetic ‘Smart Glasses’, and reinvigorated the tropes of zombie apocalypse by staging them on their conflicted home territory of Jerusalem, and inflecting them with Dark Angels, Nephilim and other monsters from the Old Testament and Talmud. Their latest, The Golem,
When A Quiet Place was released back in April, it proved hugely popular with both fans and critics. From its relatively small budget of around $17 million, it made an impressive $333 million at the box office and it success spurred rumours of a sequel. Now, Paramount Pictures has officially set a release date for a
Earlier this week, it was announced that Saturday Night Live star Alec Baldwin was set to star in Joker, an upcoming origin movie centred around Batman’s make-upped and maniacal nemesis. But now, the actor has revealed that he has dropped out of the project. Talking to USA Today, Baldwin claimed that scheduling issues were to blame
Amazon Studios has revealed the first clip for upcoming supernatural horror Suspiria and having watched it, all we can think about it whether Michael Jackson really was onto something when he uttered these famous lyrics: “Blame it on the boogie!” The two-minute footage sees artistic director Madame Blanc (Tilda Swinton) instructing her dance class to work
Considering that American Horror Story: Apocalypse is set to be a crossover between the show’s first season, Murder House, and its third, Coven, it’s expected that existing characters will crop up. For quite some time, fans have known that the likes of witches Cordelia Foxx and Misty Day are making a comeback, as is Jessica
Matt Smith has joined the cast of Star Wars Episode IX. The Crown actor will reportedly appear in a key role. Having previously starred in Doctor Who, where he played the Eleventh version of the titular Time Lord from 2010 to 2013, Smith is certainly no stranger to the genre and is sure to feel
Win a remastered Blu-ray copy of 70’s Brit horror Death Line with our competition By Poppy-Jay Palmer 28-08-18 386 To celebrate the release of Gary Sherman’s Brit horror Death Line on Blu-ray, we’re giving away two copies of the film. For your chance to win, answer the question at the bottom of the page. Donald Pleasence gives
Climax opens near its end, with a god’s-eye aerial view of virgin snow being disturbed by the staggering traversal – and collapse – of a young, blood-stained woman dressed in a tank top. Text appears on screen which reads, “To our creators who are no longer with us,” framing the full listed credits which immediately
“You know my girlfriend left me last week because she said I was too safe. Now look at me: I’m running around an underground facility, fighting wannabe ninjas, with a cracked rib, so as I could deport a god.” The speaker is Sam Levi (Mike Buckingham), delivering one of those conveniently recapitulatory lines, typical especially
Yvonne Strahovski fights off a masked home invader in routine cabin in the woods horror He’s Out There By Jonathan Hatfull 27-08-18 65 When people go to a cabin in the woods in horror movies, these places tend to have been in the family for generations, or a surprisingly cheap rental (uh-oh), or newly purchased
Horror fans may or may not be familiar with the Tokoloshe, an evil South African spirit who targets small children. While the creepy run-down hospital setting of Jerome Pikwane’s debut feature is much more familiar ground (and proves to be as unsettling as ever), this is a film about repressed trauma and the powerful preying
The Pollack family are heading to a cabin in the woods for the healing power of the rocks it’s built on, but genre fans shouldn’t be too surprised to discover they’re heading towards creative dismemberment instead. However, there may or may not be something special about the ground on which so much blood is spilled
The Night Sitter opens with the sound of strange humming – and then we see young ‘Amber’ (Elyse Dufour) driving to a house in a suburban cul de sac for a child-minding job. As Amber carefully discards her cigarette, applies drops to her eyes, and practises introducing herself by her false name, it is clear
“This is the one you’ve been waiting for…”, goes the first line heard in Bodied, reflecting the precise thoughts of those of us who have been waiting six long years since Joseph Kahn’s postmodern meta slasher Detention knocked us sideways – or 13 years for those lost folk who missed Detention but really loved the
The latest horror from Martyrs filmmaker Pascal Laugier sees the writer-director return to the theme of young women in physical and psychological pain in a film that frustrates as much as it intrigues. We begin with aspiring teenage horror writer Beth (Emilia Jones), her sister Vera (Taylor Hickson) and their mother (Mylène Farmer) arriving at
When, in John Landis’ The Blues Brothers, Jake and Eliot roll up at Bob’s Country Bunker claiming to be booked artists the Good Ol’ Boys, half the joke is the absurdity of seeing an urban rhythm and blues band having to impersonate a country-and-western outfit. Though more horror than comedy, Lasso, the feature debut of
At the beginning of CTRL, Christian Lex (Saabeah Theos) and her boyfriend Dru (Hainsley Lloyd Bennett) are heading to the luxurious fifth-storey apartment of Lex’s brother Leo (Julian Mack), a reclusive computer geek with a strong streak of misanthropy, to celebrate his birthday. As the couple ascends, floor by floor, we hear Leo reciting (in
Every horror fan knows that you have to follow the rules of the game if you want to survive, but the twisted “fun” in writer-director Mitzi Peirone’s stylized debut feature goes beyond the usual traps and twists. Instead, it’s a device to send the audience along with its leads into a fairy-tale dark trip. When
There was a time when giallo was the height of fashion. In the Sixties, Seventies and Eighties, Italian thrillers were the very model of genre chic, bringing a splash of style, panache and colour to the Hitchcockian whodunnit, and showing the aesthetic angle – the ‘good side’ – of sadism and murder. Then, as two
With Aislinn Clarke’s The Devil’s Doorway, Paul Hyett’s Heretiks and Corin Hardy’s The Nun all enjoying their premières in rapid succession, 2018 would appear to be the year that sees nunsploitation returning with a vengeance. Not that St Agatha, the latest from genre director Darren Lynn Bousman (Abattoir, Repo! The Genetic Opera, the first three Saw
François Simard, Anouk Whissell, and Yoann-Karl Whissell, better known as film collective RKSS describe themselves as a ‘family business.’ Anouk met Francois eighteen years ago at animation school and they have been together ever since and Yoann is Anouk’s brother. Their first feature film, Turbo Kid was released in 2015 and it showed at FrightFest
Chloe Grace Moretz, Mia Goth and more star in these new Suspiria character posters By Poppy-Jay Palmer 24-08-18 299 You can read the synopsis for Suspiria here: Suspiria is set in 1977 Berlin and follows a young American woman who joins a prestigious dance company. She arrives just as one of the members mysteriously disappears. As her stock
Hans Zimmer is returning to the DCEU to score Wonder Woman 1984 By Poppy-Jay Palmer 23-08-18 871 The composer behind Wonder Woman’s badass Batman V Superman guitar motif has got the Amazon covered again: Hans Zimmer is returning to the DCEU to compose Wonder Woman 1984. He will be taking over from Rupert Gregson-Williams, who wrote the score for