The Final Destination
The fourth entry in New Line Cinema’s health and safety lecture series opens with a pile-up at a stock car race that foreshadows the car crash to come. After scaling […]
Nosferatu
Why don’t droids watch vampire movies? Because they’re not-for-R2. Making a Nosferatu movie (as opposed to Dracula) means adapting a film rather than a novel, and therefore requires the recreation […]
Nosferatu the Vampyre
Anyone who saw Nosferatu and thought “this would be better in colour and with talking” should seek out this 1979 remake and get their head examined. Werner Herzog’s 1979 revamp […]
Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror
Happy-go-lucky estate agent Hutter (definitely not Harker for legal reasons) is sent to Transylvania in this unauthorised Dracula adaptation from 1922. Changing the names and moving the bloodsucking action from Whitby to […]
Cure
An amnesiac (Masato Hagiwara) uses a cigarette lighter to hypnotise people in this Japanese thriller they should have called Silence of the Lambert & Butler. The 1997 neo-noir has shades of Se7en […]
Dark Star
Kubrick meets Americana in John Carpenter’s first film, written by Alien scribe Dan O’Bannon, about a crew scouting colonisable planets in the 22nd century. If 2001: A Space Odyssey was […]
Collateral
Fare meters meet 9mms in Michael Mann’s 2004 action movie about a Los Angeles cabbie (Jamie Foxx) who unknowingly picks up a hitman (Tom Cruise). Along with films like Panic […]
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
Wallace and Gromit take on beaked diamond thief Feathers McGraw once again in their latest Christmas caper. It’s allmost twenty years since their last feature-length outing, and 31 years since […]
Sleepaway Camp
Eight years after her dad was killed in a freak waterskiing accident, Angela (Felissa Rose) goes to summer camp with her protective cousin Ricky (Jonathan Tiersten) in this sleeper slasher […]
Final Destination 3
After sitting out the sequel, series creator James Wong is back in the director’s chair for another Final Destination outing, and this time some unsuspecting high school kids are off […]
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