THE THING ***** USA 1982 Dir: John Carpenter. 108 mins The horribly disturbing tagline: “Man is the warmest place to hide”. In the same year as VIDEODROME (also released by Universal) and at the height of the special make-up effects revolution, this was contemptuously received by mainstream critics disgusted by…
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ALIEN PARTY CRASHERS (a.k.a. Canaries) ** UK 2017 Dir: Peter Stray 84 mins Alien abductions have been happening around the world for decades. Teams in America and the UK have been documenting these mysterious disappearances so they can trace them if they ever turn up again. When one of these…
MUTANT BLAST **** Portugal / USA 2018 Dir: Fernando Alle. 83 mins Leading a resistance group on the run from the military drones responsible for a disastrous super-soldier project, bad-ass soldier Maria (Maria Leite) releases hulking “test subject” TS-347 from a secret lab at the start of this delightful Troma…
Dark Star Pictures have released a new trailer for the sci-fi thriller EMPATHY INC. Yedidya Gorsetman’s sci-fi thriller tells of an investor in a VR startup discovers that the reality the company provides isn’t virtual. Hotshot venture capitalist Joel has a multimillion-dollar deal go up in smoke, and he and…
101 Films presents THE COLOSSUS OF NEW YORK (1958), released on Blu-ray for the first time in the UK. The film was directed by sci-fi specialist Eugène Lourié (Gorgo) and benefits from a haunting, minimalistic piano score from composer Van Cleave. Synopsis: After the accidental death of a brilliant…