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There’s nothing, in my mind, that beats a good old biker flick for that special kind of wild ride. The possibilities for madness and mayhem seem endless.The Modern day counter-culture equivalent of the viking: raping, plundering and pillaging their way ...

Frankenstein and the Monster From Hell (1973) has already seen two superlative blu-ray releases—one in Australia and one in England from Icon Home Entertainment, (with the UK release being the more comprehensive of the two, in terms of extra features). Now, ...

Jacques Tourneur’s Night of the Demon, aka. Curse of the Demon (1957) is a film that inhabits both the haunted twilight world of Val Lewton and the very visceral giant monster picture with equal aplomb. Tourneur was Lewton’s protegee. When ...

During the 50’s and 60’s, Japan’s oldest film company Nikkatsu was enjoying a renaissance period. In 1954 – following a 12-year hiatus as the nation’s film industry experienced a glut during WWII – the studio, under the vision of Kyusaku ...

Spanish director José Ramón Larraz’s Symptoms (1974), only available in grainy bootlegs and believed missing for decades, was famously resurrected earlier this year through a collaboration between Mondo Macabro and the British Film Institute. By now both UK and US ...

You certainly get a lot of bang for your buck with Arrow’s limited edition Blu-ray of Roger Corman’s monochrome vampire flick Blood Bath. This is because the package contains not just the main feature itself but three other movies tracking ...

Earthrise (2014) manifests epoch-making storytelling in an expanding world of independent motion pictures. Writer/director Glenn Payne has crafted an engrossing narrative that promises a Utopian Earth to three travelers making their way across the unforgiving ice-cold frontier of space. And while ...

Prior to making a bundle of money and receiving the Queen’s Award to Industry with their now-classic Gothic horror films, full of breasts and gory color, Hammer Films made several successful black & white science fiction pictures which initially helped to ...

The pathology of serial murder has always been tricky in horror cinema. Plenty of films have documented and displayed the easiest aspects, namely the killings themselves, but fewer have examined the real meat of the matter. Which are the inner ...

British company Arrow Films has really been on a tear in recent months with a number of exceptional and maybe a bit unusual themed cult film box sets bursting with extras: noteworthy examples include their American Horror Project, Volume 1, ...