Good friends Ruth (Ruth Syratt) and Megan (Megan Stevenson) sell “anything we can get our hands on that’s from the past”, otherwise known as vintage goods, from their shop ‘Cha Cha Cha’ in Muswell Hill, North London. When they find an old dodgem car left by the bins outside their shop, they discover it is […]
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During the third lockdown in the UK, two actors, Sam Crane and Mark Oosterveen, play Grand Theft Auto (GTA) together. One day, they discover an outdoor amphitheatre in-game. They discuss Shakespeare’s plays, which are just as violent as GTA. So, they decided to put on a production of Hamlet, which was performed entirely in GTA.
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From the producers of A Quiet Place and The Purge, Anthony Mackie stars in a post-apocalyptic world where terrifying creatures have wiped out 95% of the human population. It’s not as good as A Quiet Place, but I still really enjoyed it. And, in what is proving to be a running theme recently, I appear
Presence is the latest movie to be declared “the scariest movie of the year” by the marketing people, even though it’s really more of a thriller than it is scary. A ghost story from Steven Soderbergh, with a screenplay from David Koepp, Presence is told completely via the point of view of the ghost and
Werewolves is a new action horror starring Frank Grillo and directed by Steven C. Miller, landing on streaming services today and on DVD from 3rd February. Imagine The Purge, but with werewolves, and you’ll have a pretty good idea of what to expect. One year ago, a supermoon event transformed anyone exposed to moonlight into
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It’s 19th-century Iceland and young widow Eva (Odessa Young) is in charge of a small isolated fishing outpost. Despite a so far unsuccessful season and dwindling rations, the crew keep their spirits high by spending their evenings drinking, singing sea shanties and telling stories by candlelight. While working out in the cold, barren landscape Eva
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Coming to select cinemas and on-demand from 1st November, Cellar Door certainly looked interestingly ominous from the trailer, with a couple who acquire a wonderful new home, on the condition that they must not open the locked cellar door. It’s an intriguing-sounding idea, but unfortunately, the final result falls way, way short of the mark.
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A pregnant woman experiences some spooky happenings while alone in her new home, before uncovering a disturbing family secret down in the basement and finding herself in a whole heap of nightmares in this German horror movie. And it turned out to be a very well-done and enjoyable thrill ride too. As always, things start
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From French director Alexandre Aja comes Never Let Go, starring Halle Berry as a mother trying to protect her sons in a post-apocalyptic world and hidden away in the woods. It’s a bit of a slow-burner for a while, while the rules of the world are established and repeated over and over again, before suddenly
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Low-budget filmmaker Graham Hughes follows up his 2019 movie ‘Death of a Vlogger’ with ‘Hostile Dimensions’, another found-footage horror involving the same cast and crew. Featuring some fun and clever ideas, it certainly gets off to a promising start. But sadly, the script and the acting eventually let it down, especially when the final act
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Alien: Romulus is the latest and seventh instalment in the Alien franchise to hit our screens. Directed by Fede Alvarez, the man behind Don’t Breathe and 2013’s Evil Dead, this film is set between the events of Alien and Aliens and is by far the best entry into the franchise since these two stellar originals.
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Harold and the Purple Crayon is based on a 1955 children’s picture book, which follows a curious young boy named Harold who has the power to create a world of his own simply by drawing it with his magic purple crayon. The film version stars Zachary Levi as a grown-up version of Harold and surprised
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A Quiet Place: Day One takes us right back to the moments leading up to, during, and after, the alien invasion that devastated Earth and left it in the state we found it in when the first movie was released back in 2018. While that movie, along with its 2020 sequel, focused on the Abbott
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Demonic possession and exorcist films appear to be experiencing a revival of late, with last year’s The Pope’s Exorcist and sequel The Exorcist: Believer. The Exorcism is the latest film in the genre to hit our screens and with an unofficial link to the original Exorcist and Russell Crowe hot off the surprisingly successful The
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In the mid-1990s, awkward seventh grader Owen (Justice Smith) meets ninth-grader Maddy (Brigette Lundy-Paine) at an afterschool event. Maddy is reading a guide for the popular teen show The Pink Opaque. While Owen hasn’t seen the show, he’s intrigued by a commercial he saw on television. Maddy invites him over to watch an episode. The
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When a young actress finds herself dumped after living through a cancer diagnosis, her life falls apart. Until she meets her unexpected new housemate, the Monster hiding in the closet. Melissa Barrera finds herself at the centre of another comedy-horror, following her work in the newer Scream films and her lead role in this year’s
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