Year: 1982 Director: Tommy Lee Wallace Cast: Tom Atkins, Stacey Nelkin, Dan O’Herlihy, Nancy Keys Themes: Mad Pagans, Mad Scientists, Killer Robots, Halloween Themed-Horror Every horror fan has their own little Halloween rituals, especially when it comes to movies. For… Read More ›
Year: 1970 Alternate Title: Le regine, Il delitto del diavolo Director: Tonino Cervi Cast: Ray Lovelock, Haydee Politoff, Silvia Monti, Ida Galli Themes: Witchcraft, Erotic, Surreal Horror, Psychedelic, Satire, Eurocult Story Another entry in our Witchy Wonder and Demonic Delight… Read More ›
Year: 1971 Director: Walerian Borowczyk Cast: Ligia Branice, Jacques Perrin, Michel Simon, Georges Wilson, Lawrence Trimble Themes: Medieval Drama, Tragedy, Love Triangle Moving on through our journey into Arrow’s series of Walerian Borowczyk releases, we get to the director’s first… Read More ›
Year: 1978 Director: Norman J Warren Cast: John Nolan, Carolyn Courage, Glynis Barber, Peter Mayhew, James Aubrey, Sarah Keller Themes: Ancient Curses, Proto-slasher, Surreal horror, Britsploitation horror Story. To try and describe Terror (1978) in terms of a coherent plot… Read More ›
Year: 1976 Director: Matt Cimber Cast: Millie Perkins, Lonny Chapman, Vanessa Brown, Peggy Fuery Themes: Child Abuse, Video Nasty, Female Serial Killer, Trauma Story. Following on with another entry into our Witchy Wonder and Demonic Delight season, today I bring… Read More ›
Year: 1970 Director: Michael Armstrong Cast: Herbert Lom, Udo Kier, Olivera Katarina, Reggie Nalder Themes: Witchfinder General, Witch Trials, Torture, Period Horror DPP Section 3 title Mark of the Devil (1970) is the latest controversial film to see its long… Read More ›
Year: 1976 Alternate title: Inquisición Director: Paul Naschy ( as Jacinto Molina) Cast: Paul Naschy, Daniela Giordano, Mónica Randall, Ricardo Merino Themes: Witchfinder General, Witchcraft, Occult, Torture, Period Horror The Story. Kicking off our season Witchy Wonder and Demonic Delight… Read More ›
Year: 1969 Alternate Titles: Goto, l’île d’amour Director: Walerian Borowczyk Cast: Pierre Brasseur, Ligia Branice, Jean-Pierre Andréani Themes: Drama, Surreal, Black Comedy, Obsessional love, Tragedy For anyone acquainted with Borowczyk’s, shall we say, more ‘erotic’ features, it would be easy… Read More ›
Year: 1987 Alternate Title: Stage Fright: Aquarius, Deliria, Bloody Bird Director: Michele Soavi Cast: Barbara Cupisti , Giovanni Lombardo Radice, David Brandon, Mary Sellers, Robert Gligorov Themes: Slasher, Giallo, Murder, Masked Killer, Murderous Owls To be fair late eighties genre… Read More ›
There is no denying 2014 has been a memorable year in home video releases for cult film fans. One company leading the way in providing high-quality, restorations of cult titles are Britain’s Arrow. The company has gone from strength to… Read More ›
Year: 2012 Alternate titles: Lesson of the Evil, Aku no Kyōten, 悪の教典, Director: Takashi Miike Cast: Hideaki Ito, Takayuki Yamada, Mitsuru Fukikoshi, Takehiro Hira, Shota Sometani Themes: Bloodshed, Murder, Sociopaths, Controversial, Violence, Gore, Black Humour You have to take your… Read More ›
Year: 1943 Director: James P Hogan. Cast: George Zucco, Evelyn Ankers, David Bruce, Turhan Bey Themes: Zombies, Manipulation, Grave Robbing, Sci-fi horror, Mad Doctors At first glance, it would be easy to dismiss Universal Pictures The Mad Ghoul as just… Read More ›
Year: 1984 Director: Lloyd Kaufman, Michael Herz Cast: Mitch Cohen, Pat Ryan Jr., Andree Maranda, Mark Torgl Themes: Splatstick, Gross-out Horror/Comedy, Low-budget fun, Cult 80’s horror I would barter that it is almost impossible to be a horror fan and… Read More ›
The year 1982, I was eight years old. I wasn’t one of those kids that ‘got’ school, for the most part I felt it constraining. I could be usually found staring out the window during lessons, daydreaming while wrapped up… Read More ›
Year: 1973 Alternate Title: Il prato macchiato di rosso Director: Riccardo Ghione Cast: Enzo Tarascio, Marina Malfatti ,Claudio Biava, George Willing, Daniela Caroli, Lucio Dalla, Dominque Boschero Themes: Euro-trash, Euro-thriller, Giallo, Weirdness, Hippies, Bloodletting, Mystery Going by the title alone,… Read More ›
“If I abandon this project, I would be a man without dreams and I don’t want to live like that.”- Werner Herzog, Burden of Dreams (1982). Always one to accept a challenge I sit here and wonder how to describe… Read More ›
Year: 1967 Alternate Title: Island of the Burning Damned (US) Director: Terence Fisher Cast: Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Patrick Allen, Sarah Lawson, Jane Merrow Themes: Low-budget sci-fi, alien invasion If there is one thing that can always be relied upon… Read More ›
Year: 1967 Director: Seijun Suzuki Cast: Jô Shishido, Kôji Nanbara, Isao Tamagawa, Annu Mari, Mariko Ogawa. Themes: Yazkuza, Action, Gothic, Noir, Avant Garde, Japanese New Wave Out this week on Arrow Films is Japanese forerunning director Seijun Suzuki’s stand out… Read More ›
Year: 1974 Director: Pete Walker Cast: Penny Irving, Barbara Markham, Sheila Keith, Patrick Barr, Dorothy Gordon, Ray Brookes, Ann Michelle Themes: Women in Prison, Britsploitation, Classic British Horror, Sadism Pete Walker- one of the leading names in Britsploitation- is a… Read More ›
Year: 2013 Director: Axelle Carolyn Cast: Anna Walton, Tom Wisdom, Tanya Myers, Nick Brimble Themes: Ghost and hauntings, Suicide, Grief, Loss, Gothic Romance In a genre dominated by mainstream cattle prod cinema, it is always a nice surprise to find… Read More ›
Release Date: August 11th 2014 Year: 2014 Director: Loren Johnson Cast: Andrea Burdett, John McPherson, Luke Ledger, Pia Prendiville Themes: Australian, ghost story, supernatural, teens, boot camp, premonitions A number of TV shows have been created in the past decade… Read More ›
For this writer, there is nothing more beautiful than the printed word. As a collector of books and magazines for years, I find there is something uniquely satisfying about flicking through old issues of zines. We live in a society… Read More ›
Year: 2014 Director: Shaub Miah Cast: Lucinda Rhodes-Flaherty, Josh Myers, Wayne Gordon, Sagar Radia, Jema ‘Princess Levi’ Gilsenan Themes: Zombie, Action, Comedy Kicking off with the familiar ‘our feature presentation’ introduction screen that has graced many past grindhouse and B… Read More ›
Year: 1970 Director: James MacTaggart Cast: Anna Cropper, Freda Bamford, Bernard Hepton, Andy Bamford Themes: Witchcraft, Classic British Horror, Folk Horror, Psychological The BBC for many years had a fairly impressive record when it came to horror based drama. Most… Read More ›
Release Date: Sept 15th 2014 Year: 2014 Director: Owen Tooth Cast: Roxanne Pallett, Jason Mewes, Jessica-Jane Clement/Stafford, Eddie Webber Themes: horror, comedy, drama, zombie survival, tower block, British The sub-genre of ‘tower block peril’ movies has grown in recent years… Read More ›
