Stars: Riki Takeuchi, Seiji Matano, Masanori Sera, Minako Tanaka, Chikako Aoyama, Ren Osugi, Rikaya Yasuoka, Sho Aikawa, Shiori Sakura, Joji Abe, James Fujiki, Masumi Harukawa, Yûzô Hayakawa, Minoru Ôki, Hideki Saijô, Kiyoshi Nakajoe, Natsumi Nanase, Tetsurô Tanba, Kimiko Yo, Makiko Kuno, Johnny Ôkura, Katsuo Tokashi, Kôji Shimizu, Maiko Kazama | Directed by Toshimichi Okawa, Banmei […]
Stars: Berik Aytzhanov, Anna Starchenko, Azamat Nigmanov, Yerken Gubashev, Nurbek Mukushev | Written and Directed by Adilkhan Yerzhanov Many people feel that the film Steppenwolf was based on Hermann Hesse’s novel ‘Steppenwolf,’ first published in German in 1927. But that would be a mistake to believe that. Because, according to director Adilkhan Yerzhanov, the film […]
Stars: Rufus Sewell, Kiefer Sutherland, Jennifer Connelly, William Hurt, Richard O’Brien, Ian Richardson, Bruce Spence, Colin Friels, John Bluthal, Mitchell Butel, Melissa George, Frank Gallacher, Ritchie Singer, Nicholas Bell, Satya Gumbert, Frederick Miragliotta | Written by Alex Proyas, Lem Dobbs, David S. Goyer | Directed by Alex Proyas The name David S. Goyer may not […]
Stars: Arthur Hill, David Wayne, James Olsen, Kate Reid, Paula Kelly, George Mitchell, Ramon Bieri, Kermit Murdock, Richard O’Brien, Peter Hobbs, Eric Christmas, Mark Jenkins, Peter Helm, Joe Di Reda, Carl Reindel, Ken Swofford, Frances Reid, Richard Bull | Written by Nelson Gidding | Directed by Robert Wise Michael Crichton was a prolific writer. His […]
Stars: Kane Hodder, Lexa Doig, Jeff Geddis, David Cronenberg, Markus Parilo, Jonathan Potts, Lisa Ryder, Dov Tiefenbach, Chuck Campbell, Melyssa Ade, Kristi Angus | Written by Todd Farmer | Directed by James Isaac The year is 2455, humanity has left an overly polluted Earth for a new planet they’ve christened Earth II. A crew of […]
Stars: John D. LeMay, Kari Keegan, Kane Hodder, Steven Williams, Steven Culp, Erin Gray, Rusty Schwimmer, Richard Gant, Leslie Jordan, Billy Green Bush | Written by Dean Lorey, Jay Huguely | Directed by Adam Marcus Jason Voorhees is finally dead! Or is he? After being blown to smithereens in a sting operation, the infamous killer’s […]
Stars: Ken Trujillo, Katerina Eichenberger, Emma Anne Wedemeyer, Chris Genovese | Written and Directed by D.W. Medoff I Will Never Leave You Alone, directed by D.W. Medoff, is a haunting and emotionally intense horror film that made its premiere at this year’s FrightFest. Though it fits comfortably within the horror genre, the film distinguishes itself […]
Stars: Chris Hemsworth, Leehom Wang, Wei Tang, Viola Davis, Holt McCallany | Written by Morgan Davis Foehl | Directed by Michael Mann About an hour into my viewing of Blackhat I was struggling to remain conscious from boredom. About an hour later I was glued to my seat, my eyes and ears on full alert for whatever the film was going to throw […]
Stars: William Shatner, Allyson Ames, Eloise Hardt, Robert Fortier, Ann Atmar, Milos Milos | Written and Directed by Leslie Stevens Incubus is a 60s experimental horror film starring William Shatner, notable not only for its eerie storyline but also for being one of the few films ever made entirely in Esperanto. Directed by Leslie Stevens […]
To celebrate the release of Exorcist II: The Heretic – out now on Blu-ray from Arrow Video – we have a copy up for grabs! From John Boorman, the director of Point Blank and Deliverance, comes Exorcist II: The Heretic, a visionary metaphysical thriller that confounded audience expectation by delivering something unique and entirely unexpected. […]
Stars: Winona Ryder, Christian Slater, Shannen Doherty, Lisanne Falk, Kim Walker, Peter Dawson | Written by Daniel Waters | Directed by Michael Lehmann Heather Chandler (Kim Walker) is the leader of the “Heathers”, a clique of mean girls running their Ohio high school. There are two other Heathers in the group, and then there’s the […]
Stars: Hugo Dillon, Ophelia Kolb, Arben Bajraktaraj, Manon Maindivide | Written and Directed by Quarxx Nathan and Daniel wake at the scene of a car crash, confused and seemingly unscathed. The two men begin to slowly understand that they did not make it. They are dead. Nathan’s previous acts will now determine his fate, however […]
Stars: Garret Dillahunt, Aaron Paul, Riki Lindhome, Spencer Treat Clark, Sara Paxton, Monica Potter, Tony Goldwyn, Martha MacIsaac | Written by Adam Alleca, Carl Ellsworth | Directed by Dennis Iliadis Wes Craven’s The Last House on the Left is regarded by many as a classic of the horror genre, and by others as one of […]
Orchestrator of Storms: The Fantastique World of Jean Rollin, from here on simply Orchestrator of Storms, is a long overdue examination of the works of French filmmaker Jean Rollin, a man who has been labelled everything from an auteur to a pornographer and a hack. Writer/directors Dima Ballin and Kat Ellinger have worked together on […]
Confrontational, provocative, outrageous, heartbreaking, hilarious – all can be applied to director Lukas Moodysson, who has been hailed internationally as one of Sweden’s greatest filmmaking talents, delighting and confounding audiences in equal measure. Drawing his inspiration from an eclectic and startling array of subjects, including commune living, teenage angst, punk rock, reality TV and graphic […]
Strange creatures chained in dungeons and locked in shuttered rooms – indescribably entities that come from beyond – lurking beasts that hide in the shadows of your darkest imaginings – the gates of Hell being flung open and the unspeakable unleashed – welcome to the weird and unsettling world of the titan of literary terror […]
J-horror films, the Japanese chillers that swept the globe at the turn of the millennium, could guarantee two things – ghastly ghostly apparitions, and sleepless nights for the viewer. Among the pinnacle of J-horror are the JU-ON films, a trilogy of terror named after a deadly curse spawned when someone dies in the grip of […]
Stars: Alain Chabat, Anaïs Demoustier, Léa Drucker, Benoît Magimel | Written and Directed by Quentin Dupieux There are plenty of films that could call themselves Incredible But True but maybe more than most this one feels like it justifies it. But unfortunately, I don’t want to say too much about why this is the case […]
From Errol Flynn to Disney, cinema has long been fascinated with the legend of Robin Hood. In 1991 he was played by box office superstar Kevin Costner, in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, who transformed the famous outlaw of Sherwood Forest into a movie icon fit for the 1990s. This grand, swashbuckling adventure in the […]
Stars: Graham Skipper, Jeremy Gardner, Taylor Zaudtke, Rigo Garay | Written and Directed by Eric Pennycoff Father David (Graham Skipper) is a devout priest who lives by the bible’s doctrine to be a Good Samaritan at all times. So he is more than happy to welcome a struggling homeless couple Terry and Lexi, played by […]
Stars: Belle Adams, Ian Michaels, Tim Fox, Dina Silva, Rebekah Kennedy, Kristina Klebe | Written by Pierre Tsigaridis, Kristina Klebe, Maxim Rancon | Directed by Pierre Tsigaridis Two Witches, the first feature from Pierre Tsigaridis features a pair of somewhat connected tales of modern day witchcraft. These aren’t the witches of Hocus Pocus or Sabrina […]
Teenage kicks take a decidedly dark turn in director Douglas Grossman’s Hell High – out now on Blu-ray from Arrow Video – a twisted tale of delinquency pushed to its horrifying extreme, where Class of 1984 meets I Spit on Your Grave. To celebrate we are giving away a Blu-ray! When high school football hero […]
