New Zealand filmmaker James Ashcroft made his feature film debut in 2021 with the bleak road thriller Coming Home in the Dark, which depicted senseless acts of violence at the hands of an extremely disturbed individual. This same confronting theme carries over into the director’s new feature, The Rule of Jenny Pen, a distressing psychological horror taking place […]
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Western audiences mostly know Rutger Hauer as an action star who was most prominent during the 80s and 90s. However, before making a name for himself in Hollywood, he was regarded as a thespian performer in his native Holland. In the new documentary feature, Like Tears in Rain, directed by his goddaughter Sanna Fabery de
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Vampirism does not discriminate. Once bitten you will become a lap dog of Satan, but the Hong Kong horror/comedy Doctor Vampire proves that being in the medical profession has its advantages, which is coming to Blu-ray in the United Kingdom this Monday, February 24th, from Eureka Entertainment. While visiting England, a young doctor, Chiang Ta-Tsung,
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Not every movie is going to wind up on streaming or be elevated to a disc-based physical format. Some are just “so far down, they’re not even on the map” to quote The Warriors but Vis Vision in Australia has scourged back catalogues to give collectors the relatively unknown Cyndi Lauper classic, Off and Running,
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After a while monsters tend to get boring, namely vampires and zombies, but the haunted house movie, more often than not, manages to hit close to home (no pun intended). It’s a genre that operates subconsciously, questioning our understanding of what may or may not lie beyond death. Steven Soderbergh offers more questions than answers
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When we think of animated features during the 80s and 90s, it’s mostly Disney titles that spring to mind, but former long-time animator for the studio, Don Bluth, became a rival player with his breakout film, The Secret of NIMH – available now on Blu-ray from Eureka Entertainment. Inside a cinderblock she calls home, which
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In a fun homage to campy classics such as House on Haunted Hill the second big-screen outing for Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, borrows the title font, but provides the hills in Elvira’s Haunted Hills – Available now on Blu-ray (Standard Edition) from 101 Films in the UK. It’s 1851 and Elvira and her maidservant
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Widely regarded as the successor to The Twilight Zone, writer, producer, and former flyweight boxer, Rod Serling, plays curator to Night Gallery – a varied anthology series that’s again available on DVD from Via Vision Entertainment in Australia. As an avid fan of Night Gallery’s predecessor, I found it naturally difficult not to draw comparisons
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101 Films wrapped up 2024 with a Limited-Edition Blu-ray release of Nigel Kneale’s The Stone Tape – a made-for-television feature that was originally broadcast in Britain on Christmas Day 1972 to high acclaim from viewers and critics alike. Spurred by their Japanese competitors, a large electronics company employs a team of scientists who have set up
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Looney Tunes was my introduction to Edward G. Robinson who Buggs Bunny would regularly impersonate, most famously in the 1946 cartoon short Racketeer Rabbit. Interestingly the first movie I saw Robinson in was Soylent Green, which was sadly his last. Now fans can enjoy the liver-lipped actor at his meanest in the bleak obscure classic
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