Thursday 22nd August sees the world premiere of The Dead 2: India from the Ford Brothers. Hopes are high following their 2010 Frightfest screening of The Dead, which was a genuine surprise that year: a Romero-style zombie flick shot on film in…
Following on from Rio Bravo, Assault on Precinct 13 and most recently, Attack the Block, this is the latest in a long line of movies involving a motley group forced together by circumstance against a seemingly overwhelming foe. The plot…
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…
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…
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…
I felt in need of another equilibrium-restoring nostalgia fix the other night and so I retired to bed with Bovril and hobnobs for a midnight movie double bill of British B’s courtesy of Renown Pictures. The movies in question were…
I’ve finally just about finished up on our special Hammer issue and boy is it looking great. Rick Melton’s Dracula cover is just sublime. Only the review section to do now and I’ve just sharpened my critical faculties on Blu-rays…