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“GORDON’S ALIVE?” Yes, yes, he is. Nearly 40 years after the film that made and then broke him, filmmaker Lisa Downs goes in search of Saviour of the Universe, Flash Gordon aka Sam J. Jones. The...

Fancy another director interview ahead of next week's Frightfest festival? Of course you do, so here's ten questions with The Dark helmer Justin P Lange... Q. THE DARK is based on your Columbia University...

Simon professes his love for the Wesley Snipes air-bound actioner

By Simon Fitzjohn & David Watson Writer/director Kate Shenton has been a favourite at Movie Ramblings towers for some time now - from her eye-catching short films such as Gimp and Bon Appetit, to...

An idea so good it’s almost surprising no one’s done it before, Egomaniac director Kate Shenton returns with 8-part web series Netfl!x And Kill, riffing on Gogglebox and The Collector to bring us a...

Arrow Video FrightFest 2018 showcases the best in short film from the UK and around the world, with ten countries representing five continents. From otherworldly ghosts to terrifying monsters, from the creepy...

With the Soskas now knee-deep in their work on the Rabid reboot, and the film in question readily available, I wanted to remind everyone about my favourite film of recent years without question and, I firmly...

One of the films that really caught our eye in the Frightfest line-up was Swedish entry Videoman, a throwback of sorts that leans on the current 80s fad to good effect. Now, my liking for the film may have...

Okay, so I know as far as 'modern-day' Mia Farrow goes, acting very much seems to be in the rear-view mirror - in fact it has been more than six years since she appeared on screen, instead now devoting her...

Adding to the burgeoning cupboard marked ‘sequels nobody actually asked for but here they are anyway’, Escape Plan 2 rolls into UK cinemas with the minimum of fanfare and fuss. Which is all well and...

The dust is just about settling on Comic Con in San Diego, when genre junkies get their fix of all the excitement around the corner. To be honest, there's just too much for us here at Movie Ramblings towers...

Hotel Artemis? More like Hotel Artifice! Am I right? Goddamn right I’m right. Not exactly boding well for Starz’s rumored TV show The Continental, which will take us behind the front desk of the luxury...

Jenn Wexler's 80s slasher homage The Ranger looks set to rock Frightfest as the opening film, so what better way to get excited than to chat to the director herself, firing off questions about the film, her...

Sometimes in life it just clicks: the stars align, quirks of fate occur, everything comes together and out of it all you’re left with a film that simply works. Towards the beginning of the summer ‘88...

Extra films, a stacked guest line-up, nominees and a trailer reel - today is a good day to get excited about next month's Arrow Video Frightfest. Here's the press release that just landed: Two extra...

Fleeing their past, four English siblings – Jack (George MacKay), Jane (Mia Goth), Billy (Charlie Heaton) and Sam (Matthew Stagg) - and their ailing mother arrive in the sleepy little town on America’s...

An asylum-based shocker that pushes all the right buttons

Last year's Cult Of Chucky certainly got Frightfest up and running with a crowd-pleasing bang, and no doubt genre fans heading to London are expecting the same from this slice of retro 80s splatter. The...

I don’t have kids, a fact for which humanity should forever count their blessings. But amongst the many careers I’ve tried on for size over the years was a stint as a ‘manny’, childminding in...

In praise of the legendary (well, to us anyway) Caroline Munro

Released into cinemas back in October 1981, Just Before Dawn is one of those films lumped in with the wave of slasher flicks that washed into movie houses over that period. Now don’t get me wrong, I love...