Category: Cult Cinema
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This is either going to be absolutely brilliant or bloody awful, but considering both of those things fall in my wheelhouse, I’m going to have a great time. The trend of turning beloved childhood icons into cheap slasher villains has officially claimed another victim. After Mickey Mouse, Bambi, Pinocchio, and Winnie the Pooh all got…
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If you ever find yourself leaning over a sticky pub table trying to explain Galaxina to someone who’s never had the misfortune of seeing it, don’t bother explaining the plot. The scriptwriters certainly didn’t bother writing one. What we’ve got here is a 1980 exploitation Frankenstein that spends its first hour drifting aimlessly through deep…
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Kung Fu. Check. Jiangshi. Check. Steven He. Check. Let’s be honest here: there was very little chance I wasn’t going to adore this film. It takes the glorious, unhinged spirit of classic 1980s Hong Kong hopping-vampire cinema and drops it right into the middle of Dublin, forcing two utterly useless pest exterminators, Danny (Steven He)…
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Anyone who caught Feed Me or Hosts knows co-director Richard Oakes doesn’t bother with polite, cozy British drama. He makes nasty, uncomfortable genre flicks. His latest, Remembrance, co-directed with writer-star James Matthew Denton, heads straight to UK digital platforms on 19 October via Reel2Reel Films. Things kick off in a hospital bed where Grace (Alyssa…
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Every now and then, cinema gives us a piece of pure, low-IQ perfection. A film so absurdly hyper-masculine that it feels like it was conceived and funded by a room full of concussed linebackers who had just watched Cobra and drunk three crates of cheap lager. Craig R. Baxley’s Stone Cold is that film. Ex-NFL…
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Blood, guts, and mutated killer sheep. This is the kind of shit I live for. Twenty years after unleashing one of the finest horror-comedies to ever come out of New Zealand, writer-director Jonathan King is finally returning to the farm. Umbrella Entertainment has dropped the official trailer for Black Sheeps, and it looks like a…
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Any trailer that has the line: “I’m so glad I found you. There’s a crazy man with a chainsaw. Spoiler alert, it’s me” is always going to grab my attention, especially when it makes me spit out my mouthful of coffee due to laughing. Director Kevin Lewis, the man who gave us Nicolas Cage silently…
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The Brooklyn Horror Film Festival has dropped its full program for 2026, locking in eight days of blood-splattered premieres, retrospectives, and late-night drinking at Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg from October 15–22. Australian director Nicky Murphy gets things moving on opening night with the U.S. premiere of I Love Paris, a vampire mockumentary about an underground singer…
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If you don’t like films that leave you sitting there wondering what the fuck is actually going on, The Stranger probably isn’t for you. Co-directors Paul Gerrard and Mike Clarke clearly aren’t interested in making things easy. Their feature debut drops us into the familiar territory of the rural British thriller, then starts quietly pulling…
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Okay, I’m not gonna lie. I am rather looking forward to this. YouTube sketch creator Steven He is swapping short-form comedy for full-throttle martial arts chaos, taking his first lead feature role in Kung Fu Deadly. The supernatural action-comedy lands its world premiere on September 18 at Fantastic Fest in Austin. Directed by BAFTA winner…