Basket Case and Frankenhooker filmmaker and schlock cinema legend Frank Henenlotter’s controversial, deeply icky Brain Damage is presented in beautiful 1080p so we can all enjoy this giddy VHS cult favourite in striking high definition. For the uninitiated, Brain Damage fits very neatly into the Henenlotter back catalogue with a sweaty young man trying desperately
Phenomena gets a raw deal. It’s often held up as the first sign of Dario Argento losing his masterly touch, an overblown blend of greatest hits and daftness. However, while it shares several key plot elements with Suspiria and arguably never really squares its blend of creature feature, serial killer horror and fairytale, it’s a
Bags of Holding…in SPAAACE! When I first realized I had to deal with starship layouts in the hexarchate, I had two choices. I could either sit down (probably with my long-suffering husband) and make a loving diagram of a ship and its layout, and refer to it assiduously every time I had someone go from
The level of competition for the Best Animated Film at the Oscars this year was absolutely ferocious: Kubo And The Two Strings, Moana, and Zootopia each felt like they were more than deserving of the grand prize…which is why it’s just about forgivable that Michael Dudok De Wit’s beautiful fable The Red Turtle walked away
Some 75 years after her creation, after god knows how many Batman and Superman big screen adventures, Wonder Woman finally gets her solo silver screen debut. To say that the film has to carry the weight of expectation is somewhat of an understatement. This film is all expectation. We’re expecting to be stunned into silence
When Warner Bros announced that it was making The Lego Movie, the whole thing sounded a bit like a ploy to get people to pay to see a 100-minute-long advert for Lego. Upon the film’s release it was immediately clear that that wasn’t the case at all. The more cynical among us probably presumed The
I grew up reading The Bobbsey Twins, Tom Swift Jr, Nancy Drew, and The Hardy Boys. These mysteries were packaged by the Stratemeyer Syndicate and specifically targeted kids. Like many of my contemporaries, I liked reading these books because they were about kids like me solving fantastic mysteries. I fell in love with the characters,
To celebrate the release of Rings on Blu-ray™, DVD and Digital on 29th May, we’re giving away a pair of tickets to a terrifying ghost hunting experience from Dusk Till Dawn Events at Drakelow Tunnels. When a radical college professor (Johnny Galecki, The Big Bang Theory) finds the mysterious video rumored to kill viewers seven
Illustration by Grahame Baker-Smith from The Folio Society edition of The World of The Worlds by H.G. Wells The Folio Society’s edition of HG Wells’ classic The War Of The Worlds is available now and we have a couple of Grahame Baker-Smith’s incredible illustrations for you. Illustration by Grahame Baker-Smith from The Folio Society edition
Assassin’s Creed is out on Blu-ray and DVD today and we have an exclusive behind the scenes clip for you, as director Justin Kurzel (Snowtown, Macbeth) gets into the effects magic behind the sequences in the past as well as the Animus. “Through a revolutionary technology that unlocks his genetic memories, Callum Lynch (Michael Fassbender)
Alien: Covenant is playing now in UK cinemas but when we talk to Ridley Scott about the latest chapter in the franchise he created, the film is about a month away from release. Segments have played at various conventions and festivals, the promotional machine had really ramped up, and he catches himself about to drop
Alien: Covenant arrives in UK cinemas today, with Ridley Scott’s Prometheus follow-up promising to bring the terror back to the Alien franchise. It follows the crew of the Covenant, a colony ship searching for humanity’s new home which takes a chance on a seemingly perfect planet and pays a terrible price… While the crew is
Patrick Rea’s indie horror movie Enclosure is finally coming the UK after playing at FrightFest last year and we have some very exciting prizes for you to win! “Adventurous married couple Dana (Fiona Dourif, Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, When We Rise, Manhattan) and Charles (Kevin Ryan, Copper, Entourage) plan a trip into the wilderness
In The Belko Experiment, Tony Goldwyn plays Barry Norris, the man in charge of the Bogota office of the Belko corporation. His day gets a lot more complicated than he expected when the building is suddenly sealed and a voice comes over the intercom demanding that the men and women trapped inside start killing each
Unless you have been living in Outer Mongolia, no doubt you will have heard talk of a popular little animated movie called Frozen. Cleverly jumping on the bandwagon, Elly Blake has a ready-made audience for her new, YA series, Frostblood. Ramping up the raunch factor and adding some gladiator action, it is time for Frozen
If horror movies are anything to go by, you had to be really careful about booking a place to stay back in 1960. This proto-Amicus spookfest, released in the same year as Psycho, features a hotel no less deadly than Bates Motel: the Raven’s Inn, in Whitewood, Massachusetts. Built on the very spot where, some
A house swap goes horribly wrong in this latest chiller from SL Grey (aka excellent South African authors Sarah Lotz and Louis Greenberg). Having explored shopping malls and underground bunkers, the duo are back with a tale of grief, insanity and the dangers of taking a chance on unrated Air BNB users. Literature professor Mark
Don Coscarelli’s beloved Phantasm franchise is coming to beautiful Blu-ray courtesy of Arrow Video, and we have one copy of the incredible box-set to give away! Apart from looking incredibly pretty, the box-set contains the JJ Abrams-supervised 4K Bad Robot restoration of the original film and the latest movie in the franchise, Phantasm: Ravager. We’ll
It’s Comic Relief time again, and the Red Dwarf team is auctioning of something special for Red Nose Day. You can bid in an auction to win a model of Starbug that crashed in the episode ‘Twentica’ created by 3D printing specialists Voxeljet. See, the makers of Red Dwarf realised that Starbug crashes A LOT,
It’s the 50th anniversary of Gerry Anderson’s classic series Captain Scarlet And The Mysterons, and we’re very happy about how Big Finish is planning to celebrate. Big Finish Productions, of course, is behind the superb audio adaptations of Doctor Who, as well as Torchwood, The Prisoner and Terrahawks, and together with ITV Studios Global Entertainment,
It’s International Women’s Day (8 March), the day to celebrate women, raise awareness of issues women all over the world face, and give people who ask when’s International Men’s Day the side-eye (19 November, if you were wondering). In honour of the occasion, we’ve compiled a list of sci-fi, fantasy and horror films that you
Happy LGBT History Month! To celebrate, we’ve compiled a list of LGBTQ+ TV gods and goddesses from the genre world (not that there are loads to choose from or anything) that inspire and entertain us the most… Alex Danvers (Supergirl) After nothing but DEO antics for Alex throughout Supergirl’s first season, her coming out storyline
Yu-Gi-Oh! returns on 1 February with Yu-Gi-Oh! The Dark Side of Dimensions, featuring the return of the fan-favourite cast of the smash anime series, Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters. With new spectacular duels and an original story reviving deep rooted rivalries, The Dark Side of Dimensions has plenty of potential to live up to some of the
The 1995 anime film Ghost in the Shell is returning to cinemas for one-night only this Wednesday 25 January. Set in a world where cyborgs and humans co-exist, the story follows the investigation of the ‘Puppet Master’ by a cyborg named Major Kusanagi. This film explores the theme of a thinning line between mankind and
There are some moments in film, frozen in time for their heart-wrenching acts of selflessness, epic conclusions and beautiful friendships. In the case of Pokémon: The First Movie one such moment occurs after a brutal Pokémon vs. Clone battle that ends in a completely unexpected way. For the sake of conceptuality the following feature on
Finding someone to drink with is a tricky business in the animated teaser for upcoming sci-fi franchise Space Beers. So tricky, in fact, that it’s a hunt that encompasses the entire universe. Space Beers, from director/producer Maurice Schutte, co-director Bouke van Veen, and writer Philip M Howe, finds two aliens looking for someone to have
To celebrate the highly anticipated launch of STAR WARS™ Identities – The Exhibition in London this November, we have teamed up with The O2 for a special competition to find the UK’s ultimate Star Wars fan. If you consider yourself to be the UK’s biggest Star Wars fan, it’s time to prove it! Reveal your