Thursday, 31 December 2020

A Centenary of Fantastic Films - 1920 #4 Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde (USA 2020: Dir John S Robertson)

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Time for another look back at a fantastic film made 100 years ago. There had already been a number of adaptations of Robert Louis Stevenson...

Top 10 Films of 2020

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I may only have seen 16 films at the cinema/big screen this year (compared to 123 in 2019) but I sat through just over 420 films online and ...
Tuesday, 29 December 2020

A Centenary of Fantastic Films - 1920 #3 - Genuine aka Genuine, die Tragödie eines seltsamen Hauses aka Genuine: The Tragedy of a Vampire aka Genuine: A Tale of a Vampire (Germany: Dir Robert Wiene)

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Now pretty much everybody has heard of Robert Wiene's movie The Cabinet of Dr Caligari , but Genuine is far less well known, which is ...
Tuesday, 22 December 2020

Dark Eyes Retro Reads #2 - the NELs of 'Raymond Giles'

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Night of the Warlock 1968 first US edition I originally owned Raymond Giles's three 'Night of the...' New English Library p...
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Friday, 18 December 2020

A Night of Horror: Nightmare Radio (Argentina/New Zealand/UK 2019: Dir Various)

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Ah the anthology, or portmanteau movie. Ten years ago you'd be lucky to see one a year but these days the short film concept is such an ...
Tuesday, 8 December 2020

Scary Christmas round up of (mainly) new horror movies: Reviews of The Nights Before Christmas (UK/Canada 2019), Let it Snow (Ukraine/Georgia 2020), Black Christmas (USA 2019), Unholy Night (Canada 2019), Happy Horror Days (USA 2020) and Why Hide? (UK 2018)

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Normally this post would be a seasonal Supermarket Sweep (see 2018 and 2019's roundups here and here ), but my usual outlets have been ...
Wednesday, 2 December 2020

NEW WAVE OF THE BRITISH FANTASTIC FILM 2020 #11: Reviews of The Understanding (UK 2020), His House (UK 2020), Vengeance of the Leprechaun (UK 2020), Medusa, Queen of the Serpents (UK 2020), Redwood Massacre: Annihilation (UK 2020) and Hosts (UK 2020)

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The Understanding (UK 2020: Dir Adam Starks)   Xander Addington (Joshua Copeland), a confused man with little memory of childhood, travels o...
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