From Hayao Miyazaki, the man behind classic Studio Ghibli films such as Spirited Away, My Neighbour Totoro, Howl’s Moving Castle and Princess Mononoke comes a brand new dark fantasy for the studio with The Boy And The Heron. Watch the trailer now… [embedded content] The movie follows a young boy named Mahito who is yearning
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The BFI London Film Festival (LFF) returns for its 67th iteration this October and as usual, the film festival has a brilliant line-up of movies over its 12 days. Taking place from 4-15 October in a multitude of London cinemas, this year’s festival includes genre movies from Garth Davis, Yorgos Lanthimos, Hayao Miyazaki and more. Here
Director: Anthony Waller Writer: Anthony Waller, Duncan Kennedy Cast: Elizabeth Hurley, Mia Jenkins, Jack Stewart, Robert Daws Running Time: 105 mins In Piper, a car speeds alongside woods in the rain at night. Inside Kerry Weiss (Alma Rix) tries to stay in command of the vehicle, while preventing her manically humming young son Matty (Jékabs
Director: Xavier Gens Cast: Nassim Lyes, Olivier Gourmet, Loryn Nounay, Vithaya Pansringarm Running Time: 96 mins ‘Farang’ is the Thai word for ‘Caucasian’, or more generally for ‘foreigner’ – and while Xavier Gens’ film of the same name begins in France, its Algerian protagonist Samir ‘Sam’ Darba (the extraordinary Nassim Lyes) is already an outsider,
Director: Michael J. Hurst Cast: Vernon Wells, Felissa Rose, Dave Sheridan, Sadie Katz Running Time: 73 mins Transmission begins with a satellite flashing a red light over Earth, and a large radar dish below picking up its signal – which is to say that, as the film’s very title suggests, here the medium is the
Director: Graham Hughes Cast: Graham Hughes, Stephen Beavis, Annabel Logan, Andy Stewart Running Time: 80 mins Much like writer/director Graham Hughes’ previous feature Death of a Vlogger (2019), Hostile Dimensions begins with intradiegetic camerawork, as unseen cameraman Brian follows graffiti artist Emily (Josie Rogers) into an abandoned building where they discover a door and frame
Director: Joe Stephenson Cast: Eddie Izzard, Scott Chambers, Lindsay Duncan, Simon Callow Running Time: 90 mins From the very outset, Doctor Jekyll is concerned with class, and with the illusory notion of its boundaries. We know this because it opens with a journalist (Simon Callow) asserting the need to quash “the idea that human beings
Director: Sarah Appleton, Jasper Sharp Cast: Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Takashi Shimizu, Rie Inoo, Shinya Tsukamoto Running Time: 95 mins J-Horror typically features alienated individuals and viral curses, and uses technology – whether outgoing and analogue, like hand-me-down VHS cassettes, or incoming and digital, like the internet – as the medium for its uncanny hauntings. As its
Graham Hughes’ (pictured above) found footage sci-fi horror Hostile Dimensions sees two documentary filmmakers – Sam and Ash – deciding to investigate the disappearance of a graffiti artist who has seemingly ‘vanished’. However, as they delve deeper into their research, they encounter an ominous freestanding door which leads them on a dark journey through the dimensions
The Bloomquist Brothers – Erik and Carson – (She Came From The Woods) are back with another horror this summer as their political slasher Founders Day heads to London for its international premier at the UK’s top horror festival, FrightFest. The movie sees a small town shaken by a series of ominous killings in the
The UK’s top scare bonanza, FrightFest, returns to London for its 24th edition on Thursday August 24 – Monday 28 August 2023 and the festival always attracts not only some of the top horror movies we’re going to be excited about for the coming year, but all aspects of the filmmaking community. This year, members
Director: Maximilian Erlenwein Writer: Maximilian Erlenwein, Joachim Hedén Cast: Sophie Lowe, Louisa Krause “I still get a bit nervous every time,” says Drew (Sophie Lowe), about to step off a narrow jetty into the sea for a cave dive. “Lucky you,” replies her sister May (Louisa Krause), “Nervous is good. Excitement’s a good thing.” May
Our favourite UK scare fest is back next week with Pigeon Shrine FrightFest returning to Cineworld in Leicester Square, London, for its 24th edition. Running from Thursday August 24 – Monday 28 August 2023, Pigeon Shrine FrightFest will have feature-length and short films, as well as documentaries, and will encompass 25 World, 23 International /
Director: John Rosman Writer: John Rosman Cast: Tony Amendola, Hayley Erin, Sonya Walger Running Time: 85 mins New Life launches the viewer in medias res, with Jessica Murdock (Hayley Erin) walking down a suburban street, her face covered in blood that is in fact not her own. She lets herself into the house that she
Director: Bishal Dutta Writer: Mehta Ashish, Dutta Bishal Cast: March Gage, Suri Megan, Krishnan Mohana, Bajwa Neeru, Sahay Vik Running Time: 99 mins “Talk to me,” says Poorna (Neeru Bajwa) to her teen daughter Samidha (Megan Suri) as they sit across the table from each other some way into It Lives Inside. Although writer/director Bishal
Director: Writer: Austin Jennings, Matt Frink Cast: Emily Sweet, Brad Thomas, Bruno Veljanovski Running Time: 86 mins Eight Eyes starts as it intends to finish: with an unsettling enigma. The camera tilts down through the darkness of night to a big fire, onto which some clothing is placed, and in which a charred human head
Director: Nicholas Tomnay Writer: Nicholas Tomnay Cast: Penelope Mitchell, Nick Stahl, Tamsin Topolski, Randy Vasquez Running Time: 101 mins What You Wish For is a story of haves and have-nots, and the morality-challenging divide that exists between them. More than a mere have-not, gambling addict Ryan Mosely (Nick Stahl) is also massively in debt, and
SciFiNow fans and FrightFest gang unite! This year we’re once again teaming up with those ghoulishly great folk over at the Pigeon Shrine FrightFest horror festival to get the lowdown on all the best in genre. Not only will we be bringing you reviews fresh from the festival but we are hosting a SciFiNow screening
Director: Alice Maio Mackay Writer: Alice Maio Mackay, Ben Pahl Robinson Cast: Lewi Dawson, Etcetera Etcetera, Lisa Fanto, Toshiro Glenn, Lauren Last Running Time: 75 mins “The film you are about to see is a work of fantastic fiction, ooh, but it’s realer than you think,” states Cryptessa (Etcetera Etcetera) to the camera at the
Director: Junta Yamaguchi Writer: Makoto Ueda Cast: Riko Fujitani, Yoshimasa Kondo, Shiori Kubo, Munenori Nagano, Yuki Torigoe Running Time: 82 mins “You can’t step into the same river twice,” is a quote attributed to the Early Greek philosopher Heraclitus, as an illustration of stability’s absence in a world of flux. Yet in Junta Yamaguchi’s latest,
Director: Jenn Wexler Writer: Jenn Wexler, Sean Redlitz Cast: Mena Massoud, Olivia Scott Welch, Chloë Levine, Madison Baines, Georgia Acken, Derek Johns, Laurent Pitre Running Time: 100 mins After a group of Christmas carollers leaves the front porch of an ordinary suburban house, four people watching from the darkness move in, immediately stabbing in the
Director: John Adams, Zelda Adams, Toby Poser Writer: John Adams, Zelda Adams, Toby Poser Cast: John Adams, Zelda Adams, Toby Poser Running Time: 93 mins Where The Devil Roams begins as it ends: on a stage. Shot in flickery monochrome to mimic film from the period, a tattooed, tuxedoed man with no legs drags himself
Director: Paris Zarcilla Writer: Paris Zarcilla Cast: Leanne Best, Jaeden Paige Boadilla, Max Eigenmann, David Hayman Running Time: 100 mins Raging Grace opens with the young girl of the title (Jesden Paige Boadilla) sitting at a bedroom desk and drawing a picture of herself happily holding hands with her mother. Then the camera drifts over
A camping trip turns deadly for a couple when one of them gets injured in a world infected by zombie-like ‘Heps’ in upcoming horror Herd, which has been officially selected for this year’s FrightFest, and will celebrate its World Premiere on August 26th at the iconic horror festival. Watch the trailer for Herd here… [embedded
Dubbed “the Woodstock of Gore” by none other than Guillermo Del Toro, FrightFest is back for 2023 and with it comes some truly gruesome, frightening and downright wrong (in a good way) horror movies for audiences to enjoy. The horror film festival returns to Cineworld Leicester Square, London, for its 24th edition, and this year
The Anime Expo 2023 has been taking place this week and with it a bunch of exciting anime news. The event also had an Industry Panel from Crunchyroll and boy did we learn a lot… First, the Crunchyroll panel showed a new, never-before-seen trailer for exciting new series Solo Levelling, which will be heading to
Widely considered to be the biggest pop culture event in Europe, Lucca Comics & Games will be returning to the walled city this November. Every year, Lucca Comics & Games has a theme and this year, for the festival’s for its 57th edition, the theme is ‘Together’, which is highlighted in the 2023 poster for
The FrightFest film festival has brand new artwork every year and this year’s has been inspired by the genre’s most celebrated mad doctors! FrightFest was conceived by Paul McEvoy, Ian Rattray and Alan Jones and staged its first event in 2000 at the Prince Charles cinema, off London’s Leicester Square. Its August Bank Holiday weekend
Director: Joe Lynch Writer: Dennis Paoli Cast: Heather Graham, Judah Lewis, Bruce Davison, Barbara Crampton, Johnathon Schaech Suitable Flesh begins with a POV shot from inside a body bag being zipped open. As psychiatrist Dr Dani Upton (Barbara Crampton) and the morgue’s pathologist (Graham Skipper) look down, Dani comments: “It’s impossible to tell that’s a person,
Director: Barnaby Clay Writer: Barnaby Clay Cast: Scott Haze, Kate Lyn Sheil Writer/director Barnaby Clay’s feature debut opens with a peculiar pairing of scenes that set the tone for what is to come. In the first a toddler, naked but for his nappy and absolutely filthy, walks in the desert chewing on a piece of
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