PUPPET MASTER (1989) BLU-RAY Out Now 88 Films Certificate: 18 Blade, Jester, Tunneller, Pinhead, Leech Woman. Nothing to do with any wrestling foundation, but the Famous Five of 80s horror cinema, kicking off the homuncular japes and misdemeanours in 1989…
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,…
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…
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…
A billion dollars after Part Two, and the final chapter of Christopher Nolan’s heavily anticipated trilogy finally arrives. Much like fans’ expectations, its aspirations are high. Picking up eight years after The Dark Knight, Bruce Wayne has become a recluse…
RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD (1985) DVD/BLU-RAY STEELBOOK Out Now Second Sight Certificate: 15 Upon revisiting Return Of The Living Dead, it becomes apparent that there is an inconsistency in the history of modern zombie cinema. Whilst George Romero is…
ABRAHAM LINCOLN : VAMPIRE HUNTER Published in 2010, the comic book novel Abraham Lincoln : Vampire Hunter was another mash up in the vein of the same author’s Pride And Prejudice and Zombies and even though the genre was, even…