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FIRE IN THE SKY (1993) - based on a true story of alien abduction
A night to remember...A small team of Arizona loggers come home late one night looking very shaky. They report one of their crew as a missing person. Questioned by the police, they all tell the same...
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NEXT OF KIN (1982) - a unique Australian horror
NEXT OF KIN(1982, Australia)2008 Documentary Not Quite Hollywood is a funny and informative clip-packed story of Australia's exploitation cinema, which rose to infamy and success in the 1970s. While...
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ONLY GOD FORGIVES (2013) - catching up with Nicolas Winding Refn
Don't ask me to pick my 'film of the year', but Nicolas Winding Refn's Only God Forgives was certainly a high point. I'm still watching everything else he's directed - here's the story so far...Drive...
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THE WHITE BUS (1967) - a prologue to Lindsay Anderson's trilogy
THE WHITE BUS(1967, UK)After the gritty drama of This Sporting Life (1963) director Lindsay Anderson's approach to films about British society turned slightly surreal, in both content and acting style....
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THE ANTICHRIST (1974) - you may now kiss the goat
THE ANTICHRIST(1974, Italy, a.k.a. L'anticristo, The Tempter)A delirious Italian riff on both The Exorcist and Rosemary's Baby!After a road accident, a young woman resents her wheelchair and rejects...
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WHO? (1973) - released as THE MAN IN THE STEEL MASK on UK DVD
I've updated my review of Who? to include this new region 2 Pal DVD release for the UK. It's probably a repackaged version of the 2010 US release, but without any of the extras (namely commentary...
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DAY OF THE ANIMALS (1978) - Leslie Nielsen in the follow-up to GRIZZLY
DAY OF THE ANIMALS(1977, USA)When animals attack... and keep on attacking!A large group of happy campers prepare for a long trek in California's High Sierras. But after they're dropped off high on a...
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ISLAND OF TERROR (1966) - remastered and coming to DVD and blu-ray
ISLAND OF TERROR(1966, UK)Just when you think an old film is out-of-print and likely to be forgotten, it gets digitally remastered and struck on blu-ray! Odeon Entertainment are releasing Island of...
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Judge Dredd speaks! (1985)
The first time ever I heard Judge Dredd...Judge Dredd has always been coy about showing his face. In the early years, 2000 AD comic fans of all ages would send in drawings of what his face might look...
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DEADFALL (1968) - Michael Caine heist before THE ITALIAN JOB
DEADFALL(1968, UK)Very sixties, very glossy, very repressed...Michael Caine plays a jewel thief, drawn into an ambitious heist from a well-protected estate on the Spanish island of Mallorca. But the...
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FRANKENSTEIN MUST BE DESTROYED (1969) - the doctor driven to new depths
FRANKENSTEIN MUST BE DESTROYED(1969, UK)The apex of the Hammer Studios' Frankenstein series...Baron Frankenstein's latest experiment has been found discovered by the police. He has to leave town...
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MISSING (1982) - a true story of modern horror
MISSING(1982, USA)When the law means nothing any more, just obey the guys with guns...A young American journalist (John Shea) gets cut off from his wife (Sissy Spacek) during a violent military coup in...
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THUNDERBIRDS ARE GO and THUNDERBIRD 6 - blu-ray double-bill
THUNDERBIRDS ARE GO,THUNDERBIRD 6(1966, 1968, UK)Both on one limited edition blu-ray from Twilight TimeGerry Anderson's many series have been a lifelong obsession of mine. But of all the times I've...
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PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE (1974) - De Palma's rock horror show
PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE(1974, USA)Another review from Brian De Palma's decade of horror.Another favourite of mine - its images, dialogue and music are scored into my memory. I don't tire of it and I...
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WENT THE DAY WELL? (1942) - what if Germany had invaded?
WENT THE DAY WELL?(1942, UK)Home invasion horror... in wartime EnglandAn English village surrounded by countryside. The middle of World War II. A regiment of German troops secretly parachute down,...
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Flashback 1981 - FLASH! CLASH! SLASH!
A selection of pages from British movie magazines of 1981. The highlight of 1980's Christmas holidays was easily Dino De Laurentiis'Flash Gordon, which didn't need much advertising with Queen's theme...
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THE LODGER (1927) - Hitchcock's riff on The Ripper...
THE LODGER(1927, UK)Alfred Hitchcock's earliest thriller is far from silent in this new restoration While Alfred Hitchcock's earliest films as a director have recently been restored by the BFI, fans...
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BATMAN: THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS (2013) - intense adaption of Frank Miller's...
BATMAN: THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS (2013, USA)An animated Batman for adults!There's a new problem in Gotham City, an army of mutant criminals on a worsening crimewave. Just as Commissioner Gordon finally...
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MYSTERY OF THE WAX MUSEUM (1933) - an early 'modern' horror
MYSTERY OF THE WAX MUSEUM(1933, USA)Unique two-strip Technicolor horror is grossly distorted on DVDI love Wax Museum because the humour is modern, the colour scheme almost unique and that it can still...
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KONGA returns! Paul Stockman - the man behind the masks
Out of the Konga suit and into Doctor Blood's Coffin! You may have seen Paul Stockman's most famous roles, but not his face. He played the undead occupant of Doctor Blood's Coffin (1961) and the giant...
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