“I’ve always been interested in the divide between the weird, messed-up private bubble we’ve all got going on in our heads and how different that can sometimes be from the way we present ourselves to the rest of the world,” says Rose Glass, director of the tense psychological horror Saint Maud. Together with Morfydd Clark
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Nolan (Mamoudou Athie) is a father who is suffering from amnesia after a car crash (where he also loses his wife). Struggling to bring up his daughter Ava (Amanda Christine), Nolan seeks out the help of Lillian (Phylicia Rashad), who is pioneering an experimental technique of retrieving lost memories via VR. But as Nolan delves
Imagine being faced with a decision that could drastically alter the path of your child’s life. That’s what parents Jay (Peter Sarsgaard) and Rebecca (Mireille Enos) have to deal with when their daughter, Kayla (Joey King) tells them that’s she’s killed her best friend Britney in upcoming film, The Lie. No-one saw the incident, no-one
It seems very fitting that The Horror Crowd is to be shown at Grimmfest this year; a horror film festival taking place as we head into the first week of October. This is the season that horror fans love. The nights are getting darker (all the more excuse to light those atmospheric candles!) and the
Set in Scotland and with a staller British cast, Elbert van Strien’s Repression is a twisty thriller following therapist Marianne (Thekla Reuten) who has moved to a remote area of Scotland to start a new life. However, her plans for a fresh start are thrown off course by one of her patients, ten-year-old Manny (Elijah
Remember when The Walking Dead was just that black and white zombie comic? Well, now it’s a franchise, spawning comics, three TV shows and a film in the works. The third TV show to join the shuffling ranks of the walking dead is The Walking Dead: World Beyond. Where the flagship show has followed its
Taking place ten years after the end of civilisation, the latest addition to The Walking Dead franchise, The Walking Dead: World Beyond is a very different show than we’re used to. We spoke to Julia Ormond, who plays Elizabeth in the show, about killing zombies and Doctor Who… What can you tell us about your
Loosely based on the pulp novel The Space Vampires by Leicester-born author Colin Wilson, Tobe Hooper’s Lifeforce was deemed to be a surefire bet for summer box office success in 1985. Backed by a mind-blowing budget that totalled $25 million (considerably more than was afforded to some of the year’s biggest hits, including Back To
Lovecraft Country has been offering up episode after episode of thought-provoking, stunning television and the most recent, episode six, ‘Meet Me In Daegu’, has been one of the most explosive yet. The episode follows the story of nursing student, Ji-ah, during the Korean War where she meets Lovecraft Country protagonist Atticus while he’s in the
With Your Name, anime writer-director Makoto Shinkai went from cult favourite to award-winning internationally acclaimed household name. The film went beyond the arthouse and found a massive audience, even becoming Japan’s highest grossing anime movie. For his follow-up, Shinkai has delivered Weathering With You: the story of Morishima, a teenage runaway in Tokyo. He finds
The Brood is the brainchild of writer-director David Cronenberg. Over forty years on it arguably remains the former body horror director’s most personal movie. It concerns the struggles of a divorced father to protect his six-year-old daughter, by uncovering the unorthodox treatments being administered upon his institutionalised ex-wife and how this could all be connected
“The story started from Holly,” writer and director Dean Kapsalis tells us when we speak about his debut film The Swerve. “It started with a drawing. It was a woman in the supermarket and I wrote ‘midnight at the market’ and then I was like ‘what? where did that come from?’ [haha].” We’re talking to
Set in a dystopian future where the world has been ravaged due to the catastrophic Unfinished War and complications with climate change, The Rampart Trilogy is written by The Girl With All The Gifts author, M.R. Carey. The first novel, The Book Of Koli, was released earlier this year and the second book The Trials
“It’s been a long, strange trip,” admits Rodman Flender, director of 1999’s blood-soaked, pot-fuelled horror comedy Idle Hands. 21 years have passed since Flender and his cast – led by Devon Sawa, Seth Green and Jessica Alba – unleashed their tongue-in-cheek tale of a demonically possessed hand hellbent on slaughtering anyone who crosses its path,
Fans of grim but strangely uplifting films but who also happen to love Groundhog Day, will have a new horror fable to prioritise in 2020 with Koko-di Koko-da. This second feature from Swedish director Johannes Nyholm really does do something inventive – and frequently disturbing – with a time loop storytelling device. Koko-di Koko-da follows
From executive producer Ridley Scott, HBO Max’s new series, Raised by Wolves centers on two androids tasked with raising human children on a mysterious virgin planet. As the burgeoning colony of humans threatens to be torn apart by religious differences, the androids learn that controlling the beliefs of humans is a treacherous and difficult task. We
wWhen it comes to offensive Garth Ennis comics, you might go to Preacher for blasphemy, but you’d come to The Boys for everything else. Violence, swearing, gore, and every type of sexual depravity you can think of – and some you can’t. If you’ve ever felt that superheroes are just far too unbelievably clean-cut, then
It’s early January 2020 and SciFiNow is among what’s apparently the first audience to see select full scenes from one of the year’s most intriguing blockbuster prospects. We’re very impressed by the thrilling scale and tender, moving intimacy of the wildly different sequences we’re shown. And this is somewhat surprising because this film is one
Dan Dare, ‘Pilot of the Future’ first took wing in 1950. Beautifully drawn and initially written by Frank Hampson, Colonel Dan Dare was a member of the Interplanetary Space Fleet – essentially the RAF with rockets. He appeared in the seminal British comic Eagle for 17 years, as well as being dramatised for five years
It may have been a long time coming, but The New Mutants, the latest member of the X-Men cannon is here and the emphasis is on this being different to any other X-Men film we’ve seen before. “We deal with things that have certainly never been dealt with in any other X-Men movies, and the
On 27 August, SciFiNow hosted its very own Twitter Watchalong Party for Superman: Man Of Tomorrow and it was nothing short of epic, with fans around the world all switching in to watch DC’s latest animation together. We laughed, we cried, we geeked out after the movie’s badass anti-hero Lobo and we even had Superman:
What happens when you mix a cast of veterans and newcomers, add in a zingy horror-comedy screenplay, budget-defying ‘splatstick’ special effects and a raucous soundtrack and put it all in the hands of a talented maverick like Dan O’Bannon? You get The Return Of The Living Dead, that’s what happens. Anarchic, kinetic and subversive, O’Bannon’s
Hunter’s Moon follows three girls who throw a party in their new country home when their parents leave town. After a group of dangerous local boys with bad intentions show up, the women are forced to defend themselves from a predator, as well as a mysterious evil lurking in the orchard outside! Fusing horror with
Commencing her career as a child actress in television, before being cast as 13-year old Cathy Brenner in Alfred Hitchcock’s classic The Birds, Veronica Cartwright has carved out an impressively prolific career as a character actor over the past five decades. Notable genre roles subsequently included classics like Ridley Scott’s original Alien, Phillip Kaufman’s superior 1978 remake to Invasion Of The
André Øvredal is no stranger to folklore. Directing and writing 2010’s sleeper hit Troll Hunter about a group of Norwegian students who team up with a mysterious troll hunter to track down the creature that’s been attacking people, what followed was a string of successful horrors for Øvredal. These included the brilliantly tense The Autopsy