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Cyberpunk is an offshoot of science fiction, usually set in a dystopian future with a focus on “low life-high tech”; advanced technology in contrast with dire living conditions, pollution and social disorder. The genre has it’s beginning in the 1960’s and 1970’s with authors like Phillip K. Dick, Roger Zelazny and J. G. Ballard taking science fiction to darker paths …

Everyone’s entitled to one good read! Or in this case, six. Having previously done a list of personal favourites and then my best horror adaptations, this year I thought I’d jump the line and do a ‘best of 2019’ in time for your Samhain fireside reading. That way when everyone else is compiling their lists in time for Xmas, you …

We are currently living in an era of franchises. Ever since the MCU began to dominate the box office, it seems that every studio is trying to build the next hot franchise. Sequels and fran-chises can be a good thing don’t get me wrong. Films like Aliens, Scream 2, and The Devils Re-jects are regarded just as good as their …

10.) Grace (2009) directed by Paul Solet (Bullet Head, 2017); starring Jordan Ladd, Samantha Ferris, Gabrielle Rose and Stephen Park. A pregnant woman named Madeline (Jordan Ladd, Robot Chicken series) loses her husband and near-term baby in a car accident in this bizarre indie flick from the late 2000’s. She decides to wait for natural labor to deliver the dead …

With the release of the new box office-crashing reimagining of the best-selling Stephen King novel IT, we’ve all been pondering a big question. Who wore it better? In 1990, Tim Curry took up the mantle of what has become an iconic character in the world of horror ever since Stephen King’s novel was published in 1986. Tim Curry portrayed Pennywise …

Glass Trilogy Explained The Hero, The Unstoppable Force And The Mastermind The East rail 133 trilogy, or Glass trilogy, as most people call it, is one of the most bizarre and interesting trilogies in modern history. The thought-provoking deconstruction of the superhero storyline came from the mind of famed and polarizing director M. Night Shyamalan.  The trilogy consists of 2000s …

If you ask me I am pretty darn lucky. I was fortunate enough to grow up in the 80s so that means that I grew up with the best music (hair bands forever!), the best cartoons, the best toys, and of course, the best movies. Especially horror movies. In my humble opinion the 80s were the golden age for horror …

A large number of people dream of becoming a star. Seeing their name in lights, their face on a screen, adoring fans singing their praises. Very few ever achieve this goal, however, and even fewer are lucky enough to find a genre or franchise that offers consistent work. Beyond that are a group of individuals who found some level of …

Fantasy genre has never really taken off in a big way here in the West. It’s popularity hit a peak in the 1980’s with films like Conan the Barbarian (1982), The Dark Crystal (1982), Legend (1985,) Red Sonja (1985) and Highlander (1986) and we saw a slight surge of interest after Peter Jackson brought Lord of the Rings (2001-2003) to …

Part five is always a weird entry in any horror franchise. For one thing, it’s rare for a franchise to make it to five entries and still have a pulse in the series. Part 5 is usually where things get weird. In Halloween 5 The Revenge of Michael Myers, Myers, and his niece Jaime share a psychic link. Is it …

The one thing that can make or break a horror movie before it’s even been released is the trailer. The all-important trailer is crucial in not only garnering interest for a movie, but also loosely outlining the plot of a movie without giving too much away. In recent years, many trailers have been accused of giving too much of the …

With any horror film that strikes a chord with the audience and has them flocking to the theatres, it is always tempting to build on the successes of the first film and make a sequel, or two, or three and the next thing you know you have a full blown franchise on your bloodied hands. While many don’t quite carry …

Greetings creatures of the night, I’m home again. After my long break from Horror I have returned to bring you my top five list of horror films that you can’t just watch once. This list is comprised of horror movies so good that they merit multiple viewings. These films get inside of you and they never let go of you. …

Sometime, in the late 1960s, the horror genre changed; it became mainstream, with big-name stars and bigger budgets. It was no longer more or less the main province of genre fans and stars like Vincent Price, Boris Karloff, or Lon Chaney, Jr., or established genre directors like Terence Fisher or Freddie Francis. In this post from my personal blog, I …

Horror cinema is riff with franchises. It’s both a burden and something of a joy to shift through the countless series based on anything from child-cults to murderous cookies. What isn’t so fun is when a promising set of films goes unfinished leaving fans wondering what might have been. Those are the sort of films we’re talking about today as …