Guillermo del Toro’s very flashy and colourful remake Nightmare Alley is currently in theatres, which has coincided with the UK debut of the original 1947 classic on Blu-ray, released by Signal One Entertainment. Tyrone Power stars as a small-time carnival mentalist, Stanton Carlisle, whose ambition, lies and deception enable him to rise to the national […]
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As part of an ongoing partnership with the American Genre Film Archive, the UK based label 101 Films will be bringing a slate of obscure titles to Blu-ray disc for the Region B market throughout 2022. The first is a little film simply named, Effects which, for a long time had all but disappeared due
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101 have been given the keys to the vault over at the American Genre Film Archive, a treasure-trove of B pictures, some of which venture further down the alphabet scale, like Lady Street Fighter, which was shot in 1975 but not seen by the public until 1981. Now forty years down the road, the dedicated
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We seem to enjoy flirting with the apocalypse through film and television, from nuclear annihilation to plagues of zombies devouring humanity. Over forty years ago, film audiences were shown what a global cataclysm might be like if experienced in Australia, built on the frighteningly realistic premise of the world running out of petroleum told through
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy, his initials especially, still live in the public lexicon, spanning generations. His name is synonymous with hope, equality, progress and of course, countless conspiracy theories pertaining to his public assassination. He’s been portrayed on screen many times by actors ranging from Cliff Robertson to Michel C. Hall, but in between for the
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Whether you believe in it or not, the very notion of being taken over by a malevolent force, the recently departed or demonic, is terrifying. The Exorcist, of course, took the idea to its most extreme, shocking audiences the world over but The Possession of Joel Delaney, released one year prior, is a more grounded
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We in Australia didn’t get to see Stir of Echoes until the fourth month into the new millennium whereas US audiences were enjoying it the previous year in September, which in retrospect feels like a jarring wait compared to today’s release cycle. With the more popular Sixth Sense still on the minds of horror fans,
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Beyond Genres was a sub-label conceived and launched in 2018 by Umbrella Entertainment, with the aim to champion specific genre titles that are more seminal than most, such as Re-Animator and Razorback for example. Now among the latest batch of releases is the Australian ‘almost cult classic’ Undead; a product of 80s horror that ran
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I’m sure many will agree that Sondra Locke never really got her due as an actress despite being nominated for an Oscar for her debut role in The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter. Prior to hitching her wagon to Clint Eastwood, who would ultimately destroy her career with the help of his pals at Warner
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Often an after-thought during conversations about The Blair Witch Project, the lesser-known precursor, The Last Broadcast, pre-dates the lost-in-the-woods classic by a year, but quickly faded into obscurity upon release due to its very limited distribution and marketing campaigns. With the found-footage genre being exploited to exhaustion, many film fan have looked back to the
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