Water Tree Media have released the full length trailer for the much anticipated teen slasher film Ditch Day Massacre, which stars horror icon Bill Oberst Jr. (Children of Sorrow, Scary or Die, Abraham Lincoln vs. Zombies) and Lynn Lowry (Cat People, The Crazies). The film also stars ambitious up and coming talents Katy Foley (Disdain), […]
Mimoco have released an awesome limited edition (1,000 units) Chewbacca Mimobot that features a disassembled C-3PO on his back! It’s available for pre-order on Mimoco’s site now, and can be picked up at Mimoco’s booths in the Toy Grower section (#5338) and in the Star Wars Pavilion (#2913M) on July 17-21 at San Diego Comic-Con […]
Titan Comics have announced the launch of a new hardback of Marada The She-Wolf by Chris Claremont (The Uncanny X-Men; Excalibur; Captain Britain; Fantastic Four; Gen 13, Sovereign 7) and John Bolton (Man-Bat; Shame: Pursuit; Books of Magic). Hitting stores on November 12th 2013, this is the shield-shattering saga of Marada, the white-haired, blood-soaked swordswoman and […]
Features: Kevin Smith, Joss Whedon, Eli Roth, Seth Green, Paul Scheer, Seth Rogen, Harry Knowles, Stan Lee | Written by Jeremy Chilnick, Morgan Spurlock, Joss Whedon | Directed by Morgan Spurlock After dishing the dirt on fast food, terrorism, and advertising, documentarian Morgan Spurlock turns his camera to one of the biggest pop-culture events in […]
Check out this fantastic stop-motion LEGO production that pays homage to maser of Italian giallo Dario Argento’s Tenebre… Axe-chopping deaths and all!
The WWE dig through their vaults once again to bring fans another slice of wrestling history, this time featuring a mainstay of the NWA and WCW, War Games… Before Hell in a Cell, before the Elimination Chamber, there was War Games – a two ring, two cage, ten man melee that took everythin fans (at […]
Welcome to the second installment of Trailer Park, our regular look at the latest trailers to hit the interwebs. This second “volume” features trailers for the films showing on the Main Screen at this years Film4 Frightfest (with thanks to filmmaker, and Frightfest fan, Simon Aitken for putting the play list together). Thursday 22nd August […]
Stars: Brittany Belland, Tiffany Arnold, Riana Ballo, Jason Jay Crabtree, Jessica Cameron, John Bloom, Ali Ferda, Luke Frost, Paul Moon | Written and Directed by Justin Russell As a collector of VHS, The Sleeper is one of those films that has been on my radar for quite some time. The film was released in a […]
Yes folks, you asked for it and it’s back. One of our most popular regular features on Blogomatic3000, the poster round-up, is reborn here on Nerdly.co.uk! For our third instalment we have posters for Kick-Ass 2, Frances Ha, The Body, Only God Forgives, The Lifeguard, Ender’s Game, You’re Next, Red 2, The Wolverine, and the […]
The good folks at LEGO have unveiled two new sets which will please the nerds in all of us. First up is an awesome (and massive) Star Wars Ewok Village set that has nearly 200 pieces and comes with a whopping SIXTEEN(!) mini figures. Then there’s the set everyone is waiting for, the LEGO Cuusoo […]
From author Jacques Boyreau comes Portable Grindhouse: The Lost Art of the VHS Box. Released by Fantagraphics Books, the tome is a trip through the good ol’ days of VHS, looking back at what is very quickly looking like a lost art. Back in the 80s I used to spend hours perusing the shelves of my […]
Stars: Jessica Parker Kennedy, Elisabeth Hartnois, Dave Franco, Mark Pellegrino, Taj Mwohry | Written by Paul Gerstenberger | Directed by Lulu Jarmen Bad Meat stars Jessica Parker Kennedy from the Kevin Williamson created The Secret Circle, in a low-budget splatter flick, scripted by an Englishman and lensed in Canada, playing a tough-as-nails teenager who, along with a group of her peers […]
With Dark Water and Ringu director Hideo Nakata’s The Complex making its UK debut at this years Edinburgh Film Festival (review here), we thought we’d take a look at the ten best scariest foreign language films. Read on… If you dare! The Orphanage (El orfanato) – 2007 The Orphanage centers on Laura who purchases her […]
Stars: Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kerry Washington, Samuel L. Jackson, Walton Goggins, Dennis Christopher, James Remar | Written and Directed by Quentin Tarantino Review by Joe Cronin Attracting a whirlwind of controversy on its way, Django Unchained hits UK cinemas this week. Tarantino returns after a three year hiatus, bringing his trademark mixture of sharp wit and gut-wrenching violence […]
Welcome horror fans to the UK debut of the July edition of Horror Bites, the Horror Channel’s monthly guide to some of the highlights coming your way in the next month… Yes, you did read that right folks, our good friends at the Horror Channel have let us have the exclusive UK debut of their monthly […]
In the immortal words of the legendary Rocky Balboa “It Ain’t How Hard You Hit… It’s How Hard You Can Get Hit and Keep Moving Forward”. Steven Spielberg certainly got hit hard when 1941 proved to be a massive disappointment. In many ways Spielberg was a victim of his own accomplishments, because 1941 was actually commercial success—just not as […]
Stars: Matt Salinger, Ronny Cox, Scott Paulin, Ned Beatty, Darren McGavin, Michael Nouri, Kim Gillingham, Melinda Dillon, Bill Mumy, Francesca Neri | Written by Stephen Tolkin | Directed by Albert Pyun Some twenty-odd years ago I was an unassuming teenager who used to spend most evenings trawling the shelves of my local video store looking […]
Stars: Randy Orton, Cindy Busby, Brian Markinson, Chelsey Reist, Sean Rogerson, Jesse Hutch, Patrick Gilmore | Written by David Benullo | Directed by Roel Reiné I reviewed the original 12 Rounds, which starred the WWE’s John Cena way back in 2009 and now, some four years later, the clumsily titled 12 Rounds 2 is set […]
Whilst many will decry the WWE for eating up and spitting out it’s wrestling opposition, leaving little-to-no competition on television, it has – in recent years – taken to recognising the history of wrestling and the legacy the company, and those companies it now owns, on modern wrestling. Gone are the days of ignoring the […]
Stars: Elijah Wood, Nora Arnezeder, Liane Balaban, Morganne Slemp, Genevieve Alexandra, America Olivo, Sammi Rotibi, Sal Landi, Dan Hunter, Megan Duffy | Written by Alexander Aja, Gregory Levasseur | Directed by Franck Khalfoun After helming remakes of The Hills Have Eyes and Piranha, the gang behind the “trapped in a parking lot with a psycho” […]
Released on DVD this week by Safecracker Picture, The Sleeper is a throwback to the decade of the slasher movie – the 80s – and tells the story of the girls of Alpha Gamma Theta sorority who are putting on a bash. As the new pledges arrive, so does an uninvited guest “The Sleeper” and he […]
Top illustrator Graham Humphreys, who has been FrightFest’s poster designer since the very beginning in 2000, has revealed the artwork for FrightFest 2013. Graham said today: This year’s image plays with the skull of Yorick, in a parody of Hamlet and all the attendant themes of revenge, murder, ghosts and corruption. The death of celluloid […]
