As if we weren’t hyped up enough about the season six premiere of Adult Swim’s Rick and Morty (landing on E4 at the same time as the US – 4AM – on Monday 5 September), fans around the world have been invited to participate in an immersive adventure that brings the sci-fi comedy series to life,
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Scott Mann’s Fall, is a pulse-pounding, vertigo-inducing experience as two best friends, stranded at the top of a remote, abandoned 2000-feet high radio tower, fight for survival. After the tragic death of her husband in a climbing accident, avid rock climber Becky (Grace Caroline Currey) has withdrawn from the world. In an effort to help
Director: Scott Mann Cast: Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Grace Fulton, Virginia Gardner, Mason Gooding Distributor: Signature Entertainment Running Time: Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Grace Fulton, Virginia Gardner, Mason Gooding The opening title credit for Scott Mann’s Fall is written vertically, with the initial ‘f’ at the top of the screen and the final ‘l’ at the bottom.
Director: Ben Parker Cast: Harriet Walter, Tom Felton, Charlotte Vega, Bill Milner Running Time: 95 mins Burial opens in London, during the Christmas of 1991, at a particularly momentous turn of global events. For as the TV news reports Mikhail Gorbachev’s resignation as the President of the Soviet Union in what appears to be the
Director: Dominic Brunt Cast: James Fleet, Jay Taylor, Nicky Evans, Rupert Proctor Running Time: 85 mins Those expecting the film that they are watching to be Dominic Brunt’s Wolf Manor might be surprised to see a title at the beginning for Crimson Manor, directed by Derrick Francis. There is a blood moon, and lightning over
Director: Brea Grant Cast: Katey Sagal, Abby Quinn, Alexxis Lemire, Joshua Leonard Running Time: 97 mins “We’re like sisters,” says Leigh Blackhouse (Alexxis Lemire) about herself and her best friend/bandmate Jordan Wilder (Abby Quinn). Their country band Torn Hearts is starting to gain traction in Nashville’s bar circuit, but not nearly fast enough to match
There are plenty of brilliant picks at this year’s Arrow Video Frightfest film festival but when we were told we could host a movie from the plethora of genre goodies on offer, we couldn’t help but gravitate towards Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead’s sci-fi thriller, Something In The Dirt. Not only are we big fans of
Director: Scott Lyus Writer: Scott Lyus Cast: Sophia Eleni, Reece Douglas, James Swanton Scott Lyus’ Walking Against The Rain opens with text which sounds like a quote from the Biblical Book of Revelation (although it is in fact of the filmmaker’s invention), about the defiant ones knowing ‘great pain’, and beasts risen from the abyss
Director: Neil Marshall Cast: Charlotte Kirk, Jamie Bamber, Jonathan Howard, Hadi Khanjanpour Running Time: 90 mins It is April 2017, in Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan, and if there is one thing that we know, it is that Neil Marshall’s The Lair is going to end with a bang. We know this because text at the very
Director: Jacob Gentry Cast: Brea Grant, AJ Bowen, Scott Poythress, Sandra Benton Running Time: 96 mins Near the end of Night Sky, someone will menacingly promise protagonist Oren (AJ Bowen) “a long excruciating couple of agonisingly painful hours while you – you helplessly wait to bleed out,” adding, “a sensation with which I think you’re
Director: Michael Hazanavicius Cast: Romain Duris, Berenice Bejo, Finnegan Oldfield, Gregory Gadebois Running Time: 111 mins Final Cut (Coupez!) opens with a conflicted young woman (Matilda Lutz) fending off a young man (Finnegan Oldfield) with an axe, while trying to reconcile herself to the fact that he is no longer her boyfriend but a braindead
Director: Travis Stevens Writer: Travis Stevens, Nathan Faudree Cast: Sarah Lind, Josh Ruben, Malin Barr A Wounded Fawn opens with a quote from Leonora Carrington about the sudden realisation of her embodied vulnerability – and later we will see a copy of Susan L. Aberth’s book Leonora Carrington: Surrealism, Alchemy and Art (2010), while a
Director: Francois Descraques Cast: Arnaud Ducret, Florent Dorin, Enya Baroux, Raphael Descraques Running Time: 105 mins “Turn back!”, are the first words heard in Visitor From The Future (Le visiteur du futur), addressed to a technician who is running into a nuclear power plant in meltdown while his colleagues are all fleeing the other way.
Lucca Comics & Games, the biggest pop-culture festival in Europe, is back! It will run from 28th October to 1st November and will once again be held in the medieval walled city of Lucca. Lucca Comics & Games 2022 is the largest convention of its kind in Europe (and the second largest in the world
Do you want to play a game? Well, there’s a new escape experience coming to London this Halloween that even Jigsaw would be proud of with Saw: The Experience. This is a fully immersive, narrative-driven, theatrical experience produced by The Path Entertainment Group, in official partnership with Lionsgate and Twisted Pictures no less! Watch the
Director: Carlota Pereda Writer: Carlota Pereda Cast: Laura Galán, Claudia Salas, Carmen Machi, Pilar Castro Pink is a colour associated with girlishness, and with pigs. The opening credits of writer/director Carlota Pereda’s feature debut Piggy (Cerdita) are pink, to match the colour of its teenaged (anti)heroine’s trainers – yet the film also begins with the
SciFiNow fans and FrightFest gang unite! This year we’re teaming up with those ghoulishly great folk over at the Arrow Video 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 (see our top picks here) but we are hosting
Director: Quentin Dupieux Writer: Quentin Dupieux Cast: Alain Chabat, Léa Drucker, Benoît Magimel In the opening sequence to Quentin Dupieux’s Rubber (2010), a police officer inexplicably steps out of the boot of a car in the desert and addresses both the camera and an intradiegetic audience about what he calls “the ‘no reason’” in films,
Director: Dario Argento Writer: Dario Argento, Franco Ferrini Cast: Ilenia Pastorelli, Asia Argento, Andrea Gherpelli Giallo king Dario Argento’s Dark Glasses opens with a wide establishing shot of residential buildings in Rome’s leafy suburbs, and then various mobile shots looking upwards at roadside trees and apartment blocks. As it is revealed that the perspective belongs
The San Diego comic con gave us a mouth-watering amount of new Marvel info, officially closing Phase 4 of the MCU with its two final projects (She-Hulk: Attorney At Law and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever) and opening the gateway to Phase 5, starting with Ant-Man 3: Quantumania. Not only that but SDCC gave us the
Director: Rodrigo Gudiño Writer: Nick Cutter (book), Ian Weir (script) Cast: Natalie Brown, Emily Alatalo, Allan Hawco The Breach begins where Friday the 13th (1980) ends, with a canoe free-floating in the water – which is to say that as the vessel drifts downstream, the film is both advertising and literalising its own derivativeness. Yet
Director: Andy Mitton Writer: Andy Mitton Cast: Stephanie Roth, Haberle Raymond, Anthony Thomas, Laura Heisler The Harbinger is a film of virus, infection and masks. It is set in the early wave of the pandemic when there was no vaccine and the Coronavirus was decimating New York City’s elderly and middle-aged populations. Monique ‘Mo’ Cartwright
The inaugural London Action Festival is happening this month in central London and there’s plenty on offer for us genre fans! Taking place at Picturehouse Central, in London’s West End, the London Action Festival will be held from 28th-31st July and includes a whole host of special events, from celebrations of Die Hard, to a
Director: Mali Elfman Writer: Mali Elfman Cast: Gavin Powers, Joe Powers, Katie Parker, Karen Gillan, Rahul Kohli The road movie is, famously, a metaphor for life. Where the journey starts and ends is arbitrary, but as our travellers have strange encounters with passers-by, take various unexpected detours, and look back over what they are leaving
Director: Dima Ballin, Kat Ellinger Writer: Dima Ballin, Kat Ellinger Cast: Howard S. Berger, Véronique Djaouti, David Hinds At the age of five, during the Second World War, Jean Michel Rollin Roth Le Gentil was taken to the cinema for his first time to see Abel Gance’s La capitaine Fracasse (1943). From that moment on,
Horror festival Arrow Video FrightFest is back! Taking place at London’s Cineworld Leicester Square and the Prince Charles Cinema from Thursday August 25 – Monday 29 August, there are some exciting genre goodies on offer from the festival’s impressive line-up. From horror comedies, to sci-fi scarers, to z-movies, giallos, gore-fests and splatter action movies, there’s
Ghoul news everyone (sorry)! Those frightening folks from our favourite horror festival, Arrow Video FrightFest have been busy curating top genre films for us to enjoy this summer and its incredible line-up has been announced! Not only that, but we’re delighted to reveal that we’re partnering up with the event this year so expect to
The annual Arthur C. Clarke Award celebrates the best sci-fi novels and this year’s shortlist for the 36th Arthur C. Clarke Award have been announced! The award was originally established by a generous grant from Sir Arthur C. Clarke with the aim of promoting science fiction in Britain, and is currently administered by the Serendip
From House of Kibaa, GenZeroes is an NFT sci-fi series set 200 years in the future after Earth has been left in ruins by a marauding alien species, leaving 10 factions to battle for control of humanity’s future. Earth’s population is at its smallest since the stone age, but thanks to the abandoned alien machines,
“The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one,” he said. What’s far more likely are the chances of winning an unforgettable weekend in London with our latest competition to win £500 Virgin Experience Day vouchers, AND a £100 bar tab to either The Spirit of Man Bar at The War of