Author: Tony Newton

Steven Severin Blood Of A Poet (Le Sang D’Un Poète) UK 2010 Genre: Dark Ambient, Score, Experimental. This is founding member of the legendary Siouxsie and the Banshees, Steven Severin’s debut album for Cold Spring Records titled Blood Of A Poet (Le Sang D’Un Poète). This is Steven Severin’s score for the film of the same name and part of his Music For Silents series. This is his entire interpretation of the soundtrack to Jean Cocteau’s 1930 black & white surrealist cult horror classic and is the second in his ongoing series of “Music For Silents”. Blood Of A Poet…

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VEGAS SKYLINE *** USA 2012 Dir: Michael Ricks. 81 mins “The odds are against us!” When an alien race is faced with the extinction of their species, the shape shifting evil alien monsters descend on earth with the intent to mutate with humans, In one last ditch attempt to save their race. The aliens first stop is none other than the bright lights of Las Vegas, seeking to blend in within Sin City to carefully hatch their plan. Little do they know what they will be up against when they cross paths with Cindy, a hypnotherapist and Lucas, a mystery…

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DARKNESS IN TENEMENT 45 *** USA 2020 Dir: Nicole Groton. 95 mins Synopsis: A biological threat from the Soviet Union leaves a New York City tenement boarded up with the tenants inside. Sixteen-year-old Joanna has been living with her overbearing Aunt Martha in a low-income NYC tenement building ever since a violent outburst left her fighting a feeling she can only describe as the “darkness.” Little did she know that weeks after moving in, a biological threat from the Soviet Union would leave the building boarded up and the tenants locked inside. It’s been one month since they were first…

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REVENGE RIDE **** USA 2020 Dir: Melanie Aitkenhead. 73 mins An all girl motorcycle gang are out for revenge! The film starts with shots of female bikers heading down the highway at night inter-cut with flashbacks. We see Maggie (Serinda Swan) with what we assume is being victim to a planned date rape at a drive in theatre. We cut to  Maggie as a tough and ruthless member of an all-female biker gang the Dark Moon who is led by the merciless Trigga (Pollyanna McIntosh. When Maggie finds out that her cousin (Vanessa Dubasso) is drugged  and raped at a…

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DARKER THAN AMBER *** UK 1970 Dir: Robert Clouse. 96 mins Professional beach bum and ‘knight errant’ Travis McGee goes up against psychotic body-builder Terry Bartell. McGee pulls out all the stops when he joins a Caribbean cruise to bring the killer to justice. This is a cult 1970’s dramatic thriller starring Rod Taylor not only is Taylor a fantastic actor but he was the lead in one of my favourite films of all time The Time Machine and famously starred in Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds. The film also stars Suzy Kendall and screen legend Jane Russell in one of…

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