Look Back in Anger
Richard Burton plays archetypal angry young man Jimmy Porter in Look Back in Anger, from which Oasis derived a song title and much of their behaviour. Adapted from John Osborne’s […]
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Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers
When last we saw Shatner-faced babysitter-botherer Michael Myers, he was being sprung from jail by a mysterious Man in Black. 6 years later we (and the producers) discover that this […]
Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers
As if to confirm the pointlessness of these Halloween sequels, they were officially erased by last year’s direct follow-up to the original, and that sequel was inexplicably also called Halloween. […]
Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
The bastardisation of John Carpenter and Debra Hill’s masterpiece continues with Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers, even though he already returned in the first film. Released and set […]
Halloween & Halloween II
Halloween (1978) was not the first holiday-themed slasher movie, but its success triggered a slew of identikit festival fright flicks called things like April Fool’s Day, Silent Night Deadly Night and […]
Prince of Darkness
In the basement of an abandoned Los Angeles church, a priest (Donald Pleasence) discovers a mysterious canister full of swirling green liquid unbeknown to the Vatican (we’ve heard that one […]
Escape from New York
Not to be confused with its sequel Escape from L.A., this is Escape from New York; so good they made it twice. John Carpenter’s 1981 action/sci-fi/neo-western hybrid is set in 1997, when Manhattan has […]
Death Line
We’ve all seen some scary stuff on the London Underground, whether it’s enormous rats, drunk people or a busker playing a particularly harrowing rendition of ‘Hallelujah’. Just yesterday I saw this […]
