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Among his many other filmic talents, John Carpenter sure knew how to come up with iconic characters. Take Michael Myers for example, whose shadow still looms over the horror genre to this very day, or...

Ian looks back at Nic Roeg's classic

Be prepared for an X-rated Xmas this December as Horror Channel serves up an horrific host of premieres, leading with the UK premiere of Xmas anthology A CHRISTMAS HORROR STORY. Tales From The...

Way back in the early 90s, the first Dario Argento flick I cast my eyes over was Opera - and boy was I wowed. That then opened up a whole new realm for me, rattling through Argento's back catalogue, along...

Social media sex scandals, poisonous gossip, cyber bullying, toxic masculinity, paranoia and hysteria unite with deadly results in Sam Levinson’s post-modern millennial riff on the Salem Witch Hunt,...

Straight out of the category labelled ‘they don’t make ‘em like this anymore’, 1988’s Waxwork is a wildly over-the-top splatter epic. Mixing horror and comedy to a degree that rarely gets an...

Remakes. Remakes are tricky. We live in a risk averse world of franchise filmmaking, of reboots and remakes, of sequels and prequels. There’s nothing the Dream Factory likes better than a known quantity, a...

Siberia is a romantic crime thriller directed by Matthew Ross, who also wrote and directed the 2016 film, Frank and Lola. Keanu Reeves stars as American diamond trader Lucas Hill, who after his partner...

A quick flick through the Movie Ramblings site will tell you we are big, big fans of the oh-so twisted mind of Kate Shenton, so we absolutely lapped up the first season of her web series Netfli!x And Kill...

I am sure all of us, probably on more than one occasion, have sat through a film that is not really that much to shout about, but the whole thing is made watchable by a standout performance from one of the...

Another John Carpenter classic to receive the 4K restoration and re-release treatment, The Fog is one of those strange films that, despite having been watched (and admired) by all self-respecting genre fans,...

Wow, what a year for Andrea Riseborough. No sooner had I devoured the Nicolas Cage-infused madness that is ‘Mandy’, than up popped this screener, billed as a ‘psychological thriller’ and pushing...

Simon pays tribute to a truly classic creation

OBEY “I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass... and I'm all out of bubblegum!” declares the heavily armed protagonist of John Carpenter’s They Live (re-released this week) just before he...

From November 3, Horror Channel celebrates vintage 1950s home-grown fantasy and horror with a HAMMER CLASSICS SEASON, The primetime Saturday night season, consisting of four network premieres, which star the...

Okay, I’m going to put this out there right from the off – just so we know where we all stand. If you agree, then great, but if you are so violently opposed that you plan on quitting reading right there...

Ahead of the World premiere screening of REBORN at Arrow Video FrightFest Halloween, Julian Richards discusses the torturerous challenges of DADDY’S GIRL, why he wishes every actress was like Barbara...

Having waded through oceans of cinematic (mostly horror) drek over the years, it takes a lot to get me angry. Slightly annoyed? Yep. Frustrated or disappointed? Hell yes. But angry? Fists clenched,...

Ever since word first surfaced that a new entry was planned in the Halloween saga, I have found myself more nervous than I can ever remember about a film’s release. The info kept dripping through –...

Derided by critics and justifiably unloved even by the fanbase, Halloween 6: The Curse Of Michael Myers all but killed the franchise. Sure, there were plans for a straight-to-DVD part 7, but to all intents...

Amazingly, it's approaching five years since the world lost a mesmerising and almost forgotten actress called Joan Fontaine. Of course, to people who love movies Joan Fontaine needs no introduction. As the...