Tag: Horror
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As its 20th Anniversary celebrations continue, Severin Films has detailed its August slate, with three major releases spanning recent horror, Indonesian genre cinema and cult exploitation. Leading the lineup is The Ugly Stepsister, writer-director Emilie Blichfeldt’s 2025 Oscar-nominated horror film, which receives its North American disc premiere through Severin. The release follows praise from Paste…
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Most horror films of the 1930s make a hell of a lot of noise. They rely on booming organ music, villagers running around with flaming torches, or mad scientists screaming at the heavens while lightning cracks over a laboratory. The Mummy doesn’t bother with any of that. Released in 1932 and directed by Karl Freund,…
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There are films that are important, films that are influential, and then there are films that are so fucking strange that you can watch them more than a century later and still find yourself thinking, What the hell am I watching? The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is all three. Released in 1920 and directed by…
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I am old. Like, really fucking old. In fact, I turn 54 in around two months and, as is my want this time of year, I’ve been looking back over the past twelve months to see what is what. It hasn’t made for great reading. Not the writing, of course. That is excellence of the…
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I hate spiders. Horrible creepy crawly bastards. Too many legs, too many eyes, fucking fangs! Utter nightmare fuel. So, you can imagine my delight when I sat down and viewed the trailer for Crawlers. Formerly known as Arachnid, the new horror film is heading to US cinemas nationwide on October 16 through Roadside Attractions and…
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Trinity Content Partners will bring seven horror and thriller titles to UK digital throughout September, with the lineup spanning folk horror, cyber gothic horror, supernatural horror, science fiction and psychological thrillers. The first two titles arrive on September 7. Steven Fierberg’s British chiller The Spirit Lock will be released through Seven Tales, while Steve Looker’s…
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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…