Dark Side issue 149 hits the newsstands on Thursday 30th August, but if you were at FrightFest this past bank holiday weekend you could have picked up an advance copy there from our friends at The Cinema Store. This issue…
As I’ve already mentioned, our Hammer issue was our biggest-selling one to date, so there are obviously lots of you out there who still appreciate Britain’s oldest and most iconic horror studio. Hammer completists will also note that the new…
THE MONK (2011) DVD/BLU-RAY Out Now Metrodome Certificate: 15 Perching ravens. Check. Oodles of gargoyles. Check. Cemetery under a full moon, preferably with dark clouds billowing in front. Check, check, check. Further truisms in this superficial Gothic-by-numbers include gloomy cloisters,…
The year 2008 saw the passing of some true movie legends, notably Butch Cassidy himself, Paul Newman, and of course Heath Ledger, taken from us just as his career was hitting the stratosphere. But not much mention was made in…
UNSPEAKABLE (2000) DVD Out Now Cine Du Monde Certificate: 18 There has to be something said for literal movie titles. Snakes On A Plane, Piranha 3-DD, Mega Shark Vs. Giant Octopus, White Christmas. Total transparency: you gets what you pay…
THE LEOPARD MAN (1943) DVD Out Now Odeon Entertainment Certificate: PG The ‘were’ picture came to prominence in Hollywood after 1941’s The Wolf Man with Lon Chaney Jnr., not the first lycanthrope picture but certainly the trailblazer. Shortly after that,…
IORGIO MORODER PRESENTS: METROPOLIS (1984) DVD STEELBOOK Out Now. Eureka! Entertainment. Certificate: PG In 2008, cinephiles across the world rejoiced when a near complete version of Fritz Lang’s original cut of Metropolis was discovered in a cinema museum in Buenos…
The Watch – cert 15 When a Hispanic member of a Florida neighbourhood watch shoots dead a young black male, all hell breaks loose because he is accused of it being a racially motivated killing. That true-life event, however, is…
THE INNKEEPERS (2011) DVD/BLU-RAY Out Now Metrodome Certificate: 15 The basic premise between haunted house and hotel movies is essentially the same, revolving around fatal tragedy and unquiet spirits. However, the claustrophobia is constricted in differing ways informed by the…
Well our Hammer issue is now in the shops, and judging by the early sales from W.H. Smiths it looks like it could be our biggest seller to date, which is mainly thanks to Denis Meikle’s superb writing. I’m already…
I recently got my hands on the first two volumes of Network’s Edgar Wallace Mysteries, and was going to review them in the next issue of The Dark Side. Unfortunately there are so many other new releases coming up that…
South African-born filmmaker Richard Stanley achieved huge success at the age of 24 when he made the cult British sci-fi movie Hardware. The Terminatorish story of a cyborg going berserk in a decaying urban tower block was a big homegrown…