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“Humans are obsessed with luck, completely obsessed,” laughs Peggy Holmes, director of new animated fantasy, Luck. “I did a lot of research about that and here’s the truth: Luck is random. It’s something you can’t control. As humans we actually like the idea of chance. We don’t really want to know that everything’s going to
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Released: 16 September Certificate: 15 Director: Hanna Bergholm Writer: Hanna Bergholm, Ilja Rautsi Cast: Siiri Solalinna, Sophia Heikkilä, Jani Volanen Distributor: Picturehouse Entertainment Running Time: 86 mins If you like this, try… Ginger Snaps Being a teenage girl can be hell and this cult werewolf horror gets to the bloody truth of it all with
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Upcoming psychological horror movie, Resurrection tells the story of Margaret (Rebecca Hall), who seems to have her life in order. She is capable, disciplined, and successful, and soon, her teenage daughter, who Margaret raised by herself, will be going off to a fine university. Everything is under control until David (Tim Roth), a mysterious man
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Released: 20 May 2022 (cinema) Certificate: 15 Director: Eskil Vogt Writer: Eskil Vogt Distributor: Signature Entertainment Running Time: 117 mins Writer/director Eskil Vogt’s potent supernatural horror, The Innocents, may share its name with Jack Clayton’s 1961 adaptation of Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw but it creeps majestically out of that film’s shadow with
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Good news sci fi fans! The Sci Fi London film festival is back for a whole new year of genre awesomeness. Taking place again at the Picturehouse Stratford in London, expect the weird and the wonderful on 19-22 May. Watch the trailer here and check out the programme in full below… <span data-mce-type=”bookmark” style=”display: inline-block;
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Listen up sci-fi writers! A new six-week online Writing Science Fiction course has been launched, which will be led by award-winning science fiction author Adam Roberts (pictured above). During the course, students will learn how to develop their novum (‘new thing’), build a compelling world, people it with extraordinary characters, and write a story that
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Being introduced to your partner’s family is always pretty nerve-wracking but something is definitely not right with the family in director Sebastian Godwin’s debut feature Homebound.  Out next month (with its UK premier taking place at Glasgow Film Festival), we are revealing the poster, above, PLUS the trailer for Homebound in a world exclusive! Watch
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New sci-fi thriller Beyond Existence recently hit Boston SciFi Film Festival with a bang with its US premiere, being nominated for a plethora of awards including Best Feature Film, Best Original Score and Best First Time Director! Watch the trailer for the movie here… <span data-mce-type=”bookmark” style=”display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;” class=”mce_SELRES_start”>&#xFEFF;</span>
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After absolutely obliterating its Kickstarter campaign, Classic Monsters Unleashed, an anthology celebrating famous monsters, is out on general release this summer, and to celebrate we’re exclusively unveiling its stunning cover (above) PLUS we reveal the book’s table of contents! Dracula, Frankenstein’s Monster, the Bride of Frankenstein, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the Headless Horseman, the
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Directed by Charlotte Colbert and written by Colbert and Kitty Percy, new supernatural horror movie, She Will tells the story Veronica Ghent (Alice Krige) who after a double mastectomy, goes to a healing retreat in rural Scotland with her young nurse Desi (Kota Eberhardt). However, it turns out that retreat are on the grounds of
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If you’re as excited as us about the upcoming release of Ghostbusters: Afterlife, you may just be pushed over to boiling point at the announcement that the folk over at Secret Cinema are organising an innovative virtual live experience based on the supernatural world of Ghostbusters in collaboration with Sony Pictures! Named Ghostbusters: The Gates
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Directed by Silenn Thomas (300), Frank Miller – American Genius follows the near half-century career of the legendary comic book writer/artist Frank Miller, through his small-town beginnings in Vermont all the way to New York City, Hollywood, and beyond. Now, after over four years creating the documentary, it is showing at this year’s Lucca festival,
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SCI-FI-LONDON marked its 20th year in spectacular fashion this October, taking audiences back to the cinema at the Picturehouse Stratford in London and showing a diverse mix of genre. From feature films such as the high-concept anthology Warning on its opening night, to intense explorations into grief with Repeat (read our review here), to dystopian
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Certificate: TBC Director: Rob Savage Cast: Annie Hardy, Amar Chadha-Patel, Angela Enahoro, Seylan Baxter, Mogali Masuku, Jemma Moore Running Time: 77 minutes Shot and seemingly set during late 2020, Rob Savage’s Host follow-up, Dashcam, is a similarly short horror that also uses a ‘screen-life’ aesthetic. Sick of L.A. pandemic lifestyle, popular live-streamer Annie (Annie Hardy)
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Released: 15 November Director: Richard Miller Cast: Charlotte Ritchie, Nina Wadia, Tom England, Ellila-Jean Wood Distributor: Trinity Creative Running Time: 95 minutes University lecturer Ryan Moore (Tom England) is a professor of cognitive science in sci-fi drama Repeat. After making a breakthrough into what appears to be a telepathy machine, he believes he has found
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It’s almost time to celebrate all things sci-fi as the SCI-FI-LONDON film festival heads our way on 19-26 October at the Picturehouse, Stratford, and this year’s programme is better than ever, ranging from the fantastical, the wacky to the simply out-of-this world! Tickets are on sale now for the festival and in the meantime, here
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Released: 29 October Certificate: 15 Director: Edgar Wright Cast: Anya Taylor-Joy, Thomasin McKenzie, Matt Smith, Dame Diana Rigg, Terence Stamp, Michael Ajao Distributor: Universal Pictures Running Time: 116 mins Beloved British auteur Edgar Wright finally returns to the big screen following 2017’s Baby Driver with a bold and captivating slice of timely, original horror.  Young
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Released: 31st December 2021 Certificate: TBC Director: Julia Ducournau Writer: Julia Ducournau Cast: Vincent Lindon, Agathe Rousselle, Garance Marillier Distributor: Altitude Running Time: 108 mins If you like this, try… Crash David Cronenberg’s controversial adaptation of J.G. Ballard’s novel explicitly looks at the convergence of man and machine. Extreme body horror gets tenderized and marinated
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The BFI London Film Festival (LFF) always brings us a great array of movies and events to look forward to and now it its 65th year, LFF 2021 looks to be no different! Moreover than that, its genre content looks as stellar as ever, ranging from mysterious time travel thrillers, to found-footage horror, to top
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