Found Footage 101: Cannibal Holocaust (Italy, 1980)
✻ Join us now as Found Footage 101 looks back on controversial ‘found footage’ classic, Cannibal Holocaust.
Film
Electric Dreamhouse launch ‘Midnight Movie Monographs’
❉ Electric Dreamhouse, a new film imprint in conjunction with PS Publishing, at FantasyCon today.
‘The Almodóvar Collection’
✻ We review ‘The Almodóvar Collection’, a brand new boxset of six newly restored films from one of Spain’s most celebrated and truly original filmmakers.
‘Bus Stop’: Marilyn Monroe’s breakthrough
✻ Sixty years on, we acknowledge Marilyn Monroe’s ‘Bus Stop’, and reflect on her iconic status.
‘Songbird’: Folk horror with a modern twist
✻ We chat to Tommy Draper, writer of Brit indie flick ‘Songbird’, a modern day folk-horror fairy tale.
‘For the Love of Spock’: A Most Logical Metaphor
❉ We review documentary ‘For the Love of Spock’, which recently opened in US theatres, to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the original series’ premiere on NBC.
Drive-in Scaryday
❉ Aberdeen Football Club are turning their stadium car park into an American-style drive-in cinema for a showing of classic cult horror film ‘The Exorcist’.
Regulator hammers Horror Channel for showing uncut ‘I Spit on Your Grave’
❉ Media regulator Ofcom has censured Horror Channel for showing an unedited version of the 2010 remake of ‘I Spit on Your Grave’
Oh, child! You must see Diana Ross as ‘Mahogany’
❉ Critics panned it, audiences loved it. We celebrate the insanity that is Diana Ross’s 1975 movie Mahogany.
‘The Shining’ – Brand new BFI trailer launched last night
❉ At 9.00pm last night the BFI launched a brand new trailer for ‘The Shining’ which we thought you might like to see.