Larry Cohen’s 1976 cult movie hints at UFO abductions, virgin births, mind control, biblical sacrifice, and messianic androgynous aliens, but fails to tie them up into a completely coherent narrative. More…
The 1979 horror film, The Brood, was a turning point in writer and director David Cronenberg’s career, and a disturbing meditation on what happens when families are broken. More…
With its mausoleum, killer balls and the Tall Man, puzzling, surreal and haunting are just a few words that can be used to describe Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm. More…
Eddie Jessup is a Harvard psychology professor researching states of consciousness, with the aid of mind-altering drugs and an isolation tank. But is he regressing to an earlier state of evolution? More…
A beautifully written and visualised story that’s heartbreaking, terrifying and so unique in the way it portrays the balance of nature and struggle between good and evil. More…
Somewhere between science and superstition, there is another world. The world of darkness. Nobody expected it, nobody believed it, and nobody could stop it. More…
Years in Development Hell, production finally began in 1988 and the audiences were introduced in 1989 to a hero far removed from the campy TV incarnation they were familiar with. More…
Hope: four little letters, one big word. That’s what Superman symbolises in Richard Donner’s 1978 adaptation of the comic book superhero, and what Paul discusses with us today. More…
After losing a power source called the Omegahedron, Kara, Superman’s cousin, comes to Earth to retrieve it and instead finds herself up against a wicked witch and her sidekick. More…
In the second of his two-part feature, Robert Bright takes a look at the 1978 remake of Invasion Of The Body Snatchers, directed by Philip Kaufman, and tells us how paranoia escalated from the 50s. More…
In the first of a two-part feature, Robert Bright tells us about fear and paranoia in America during the 1950s with the cult classic Invasion Of The Body Snatchers, directed by Don Siegel. More…
Directed by Nicolas Roeg, Don’t Look Now sees a married couple travelling to Venice where visions of their daughter, who recently died, begin to plague them. More…
The timeless classic, The Man Who Fell To Earth, starring David Bowie, tells of an alien who arrives on Earth with a noble mission but gradually succumbs to failure. More…
George A. Romero’s black and white zombie classic, Night Of The Living Dead, is the film that defined the direction that American horror of the 1970s would take. More…
In Robert Wise’s classic science fiction tale, an alien arrives on Earth with his giant robot to give humanity a stern warning about the path it’s dangerously treading. More…
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