Anyone who remembers Chuck knows what a great choice Zachary Levi is for Shazam!, as young orphan Billy Batson (Asher Angel) finds himself in the body of a grown-up musclebound superhero with all of the possibilities for adventure (and misadventure) that presents. The film has received rave reviews (including our own), and we were thrilled
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Although the cast of Us is impressive — some of its key players include Academy Award winner Lupita Nyong’o, Black Panther‘s Winston Duke and The Handmaid’s Tale‘s Golden Globe winner Elisabeth Moss — it admittedly doesn’t have much horror experience. Moss, who plays a family friend of Nyong’o and Duke’s Adelaide and Gabe Wilson, has starred in a few genre
After the impressive box office performance given by Jordan Peele’s first film Get Out in 2017, it’s only natural that the writer/director’s latest, doppelgänger horror Us starring Lupita Nyong’o and Winston Duke, has also effortlessly pulled in the crowds during its first week. But that’s probably the only thing about the film that hasn’t surprised us. We talk to
In its first weekend, Captain Marvel soared higher, further and farther than most movies with a global box office haul of $455 million. This makes it the second best superhero debut of all time, behind Avengers: Infinity War, which garnered $630 million in its opening weekend. To celebrate the successful launch, we catch up with
With an original run on television from 1959-1964, TV revivals in the 80s and 2000s, plus a film, a radio show and references across all media (not to mention another TV reboot starting next month), The Twilight Zone found a new home in 2018 on the London stage. After a sell-out run at Islington’s Almeida
There can be few people working in horror more prolific than the great Larry Fessenden. As a producer he’s worked with the likes of Ti West, Jim Mickle, Ana Asensio, Micky Keating and arthouse trailblazer Kelly Reichardt, and you’ll have seen him in everything from You’re Next to The Strain (and far too many awesome indie
After creating plays for radio and also making a series of short films, writer/director Billy Senese helmed his first feature, Closer To God (aka A Frankenstein Story) in 2014, updating the Frankenstein myth to the age of genetic science and cloning. Now his latest, The Dead Center, explores mental illness and demonic possession within a
Alien has long been a stone-cold classic and left a major imprint on sci-fi and horror movies since its release in 1979. Its glorious, immersive cinematic genius and legacy is still continuing to this day with a franchise that has spawned eight films including prequels and crossovers with the Predator (well, they can’t all be
Feminist horror film collective The Final Girls is back with a second superb short film showcase, bringing a selection of shorts from around the world and some of most exciting new female voices in genre with We Are The Weirdos 2. Since their first event screened Claire Denis’ Trouble Every Day back in 2016, The
Artist Daniel Nash gives his take on Richard Matheson in this awesome new design for SciFiNow By Poppy-Jay Palmer 21-02-19 2,252 If you’ve picked up the latest issue of SciFiNow (on sale now), you’ll have seen the latest instalment in our collaboration with the folks at Poster Posse: Daniel Nash’s stunning take on writer Richard Matheson and his
The classic ‘trapped in space and being killed off one by one’ scenario has been done to death, but Netflix’s new series Nightflyers is looking to put a new spin on it. Based on the novella and short stories by Game Of Thrones’ George RR Martin, Nightflyers is a 10-episode space-set sci-fi series that leans
If you’ve picked up the latest issue of SciFiNow (on sale now), you’ll have seen the latest instalment in our collaboration with the folks at Poster Posse: Rafał Rola’s gorgeous take on Phantasm. We took the chance to pick his brains about his style, inspirations and dream commissions… How long have you been working as an illustrator and
You might not know Javier Botet’s face but you’ll definitely know his work. The Spanish actor broke out in modern horror classic [REC] and almost certainly gave you a heart attack with his role as Niña Medeiros in the film’s final minutes and its various sequels. He played the title role in Andy Muschietti’s Mama, he
If you’ve picked up the new issue of SciFiNow (on sale 14 December), you’ll have seen the latest instalment in our collaboration with the folks at Poster Posse: Matt Needle’s mesmerising take on Rod Sterling’s The Twilight Zone. We took the chance to pick his brains about his style, inspirations and dream commissions… How long have you been working
“It’s easy for us all to otherize everyone else who isn’t aligned with our way of life, our line of thought, our struggle,” explains Betty Gabriel who plays Naya Temple, an FBI agent of Islamic faith in Season 2 of Counterpart. Gabriel plays a new character to the show who she describes as having, “An
There are some films that you just can’t say much about without running the risk of spoiling the experience of watching it. But most films are, at the very least, fairly clear about what genre they are – except Sorry To Bother You. For a long time we weren’t even sure that this comedy/thriller/relationship drama/anti-capitalism
It’s the festive season, so naturally it’s time for a new epic fantasy film from The Lord Of The Rings‘ Peter Jackson. That film is arriving in the form of Mortal Engines, based on the novel by Philip Reeve, which is what some people are calling a steampunk LOTR. However, Jackson isn’t directing this time — that task has
By all accounts, Anna And The Apocalypse would appear to be the world’s first feature-length zombie comedy musical set in high school… and at Christmas… in Scotland. Shot around the likes of Port Glasgow, Greenock and Falkirk, the film premiered to considerable buzz at last year’s Fantastic Fest in the US and is now making
Thanks to the folks at Angry Robot, we’ve got the UK cover reveal for The Light Brigade, the latest SF novel from the most excellent Kameron Hurley. The cover was designed by Eve Ventrue. Published by Angry Robot in the UK and Saga in the US, The Light Brigade is an ambitious and thought-provoking military SF
If you’ve picked up the new issue of SciFiNow, you’ll have seen the latest instalment in our collaboration with the folks at Poster Posse: Orlando Arocena’s gorgeous take on Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata’s hit manga series Death Note. We took the chance to pick his brains about his style, inspirations and dream commissions… How long have you
If you’re looking for a quick dose of seasonal supernatural scares, look no further: Rob Savage’s excellent horror short Salt, starring the awesome Alice Lowe, is now available to watch online. The star of Sightseers and Prevenge plays a mother who races against a nightmarish demon to protect her child, and we’re not going to
Very few British TV series have a fanbase as dearly devoted as Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace. It was a love-letter to the horror genre, it was beautifully observed, and it was absolutely hilarious. Now, co-creator and star Matthew Holness has delivered something very different with his feature debut Possum. It’s a chilling, challenging and deeply unnerving
Mike Flanagan is one of the most consistently excellent filmmakers working in the horror genre at the moment with Absentia, Oculus, Before I Wake, Ouija: Origin Of Evil and Gerald’s Game, and his latest, a Netflix series based on Shirley Jackson’s classic The Haunting Of Hill House, is right up there with his best. Rather
In Fannibal circles, Vincenzo Natali is a man who needs no introductions. The American-Canadian director, who made a name for himself in horror with films like Cube and Splice, helmed six of the most beloved episodes of Hannibal’s second and third seasons. They included scenes like a man’s skull getting sawed open by his best
After premiering to terrified audiences at the Liverpool Playhouse, Andy Nyman and Jeremy Dyson’s horror stage play Ghost Stories was quickly ushered to the Lyric Hammersmith in London in the summer of 2010. With its popularity rapidly spreading to international theatres, it’s unsurprising that Nyman and Dyson started to receive calls from several American studios wanting to
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
With The CW playing host to four Arrowverse series and Netflix currently owning six separate Marvel outings, there’s certainly no shortage of superhero television shows on the small screen. Fortunately, Krypton promises to be unlike the comic book adaptations you’ve seen before. Set decades before Superman’s titular home planet is infamously destroyed, it follows the
When you hear the word “fandom”, you tend to think of Marvel movies, Star Wars, Supernatural…anything that has accumulated a fanbase of passionate and dedicated viewers who have a very strong personal connection to their chosen passion. For whatever reason, you don’t tend to think of horror, but if there’s one thing that the genre
This season on Preacher we haven’t seen much of the Saint of Killers, but episode eight left the Saint and the Angel of Death about to escort Eugene, Hitler and Featherstone to Hell, so it’s safe to say that he’s back in the centre of the carnage – much to the delight of Graham McTavish,
Everyone loves a good hypothetical. Would you do a truly awful thing if it meant saving someone’s life? In The Cabin At The End Of The World, A Head Full Of Ghosts and Disappearance At Devil’s Rock author Paul Tremblay twists a classic home invasion opening into a nightmarish and much broader scenario, all within