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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...

We're not exactly sure Escape Plan warranted a sequel, but they've gone ahead and done it anyway - and let's face it, seeing Stallone do his thing always provides entertainment right? So the good news is...

If any of our readers happen to be hanging around in Canada at the moment, boy do we have a few treats to send your way... Check out this press release merrily thrust at us by our good friends at...

Middle-aged and approaching the end of his career, middleweight boxing champ Matty Burton (Paddy Considine) is a journeyman fighter; a reliable, but not outstanding or particularly talented, professional...

Friendless and alone, spiky weirdo Barbara (Madison Wolfe) knows she’s an awkward freak. She knows no one likes her. And she knows that everything she does looks crazy. But that’s not going to stop from...

We give thanks for the David Fincher sequel

I'm sure we all love ticking off home entertainment releases we want to get our grubby mitts on, especially if we let the films pass us by at the cinema. Well, the British Association for Screen...

Remaining in the heart of London’s West End for its 19th edition, the world renowned horror and fantasy film festival turbo-charges into the Cineworld Leicester Square and The Prince Charles Cinema from Aug...

Ten years after escaping the apocalyptic doomsday cult they were raised in, brothers Justin and Aaron (co-writers/directors Justin Benson & Aaron Moorhead) are barely getting by, living a practically...

OK, here’s a slightly unusual question for you – when was the last time you actually cried during a horror movie? Now I don’t mean a chuckle at a so-bad-its-good flick, or tears of frustration at some...