Category: Film
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Severin Films will celebrate its 20th anniversary with the return of its Super-Shock Pop-Up Festival, an all-day event taking place on August 22 at Brain Dead Studios in Los Angeles. The festival will feature four mystery film screenings alongside surprise guests, with the day’s programme also including previews of upcoming trailers and promos, DJ sets…
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There are bad movies, there are good movies, and then there are movies that exist in that glorious little radioactive swamp somewhere between the two. Movies that were never going to win awards, never intended to change the course of cinema and probably had absolutely no business being as much fun as they are. Attack…
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There are plenty of things you don’t want to find lurking in the back of a dive bar. A body, perhaps. A particularly angry rat. Maybe a bloke who has been drinking there since 1987 and now considers the place his sovereign territory. An old karaoke machine probably wouldn’t make the list. Until it starts…
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British occult horror Harbinger is set to arrive on UK digital platforms on August 11 through Miracle Media. The film centres on a sinister fortune-telling machine possessed by the spirit of a satanic serial killer, using its power to claim souls and return to the world of the living. Combining classic British horror influences with…
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Editors Note: Krisanna Marie is back again, this time sitting down for a chat with Weird Aunty Mildred, a horror and macabre creator who makes one of a kind oddities. Tell me a bit about your company and creations? Who are you where are you based Weird Aunty Mildred: Thank you for having me! My…
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Filmed under a title that defies the basic laws of English syntax because Golden Harvest executives were genuinely superstitious about their previous box-office flops starting with the letter ‘M’ (hence Wheels on Meals instead of Meals on Wheels), this movie is an absolute high-water mark of action cinema. By the mid-1980s, the old-school, costume-heavy studio…
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There is a moment during the early 1960s where science fiction cinema abandoned all remaining pretenses of middle-class respectability and plunged headfirst into a subterranean pool of pure madness, and that moment is Joseph Green’s The Brain That Wouldn’t Die. Filmed under the significantly more honest title The Head That Wouldn’t Die in 1959 but…
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There are a lot of ways to tell people what kind of movies matter to you. You can fill shelves with Blu-rays, spend years writing about cinema, or bore your friends senseless by explaining why a particular fight scene from 1978 is better than everything Hollywood produced last summer. I took a slightly more permanent…
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Watching the 1975 Ho Meng-hua classic The Flying Guillotine, is watching the exact moment Shaw Brothers realized that the traditional, honorable swordplay of the 1960s was dead, buried, and ready to be replaced by something deeply cynical and explicitly weaponized. Before this film, the studio’s output under directors like Chang Cheh or King Hu usually…
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If you want to talk about the absolute apex of Taiwanese independent chop-socky cinema, the conversation starts and ends with Lee Tso-nam’s Shaolin vs. Lama. By the early 1980s, the traditional kung fu movie was supposed to be dead and buried. Golden Harvest was leaning hard into urban stunt-spectacles with Jackie Chan, and the big…