On Monday, I went to the Arts Theatre for The Woman in Black which is currently touring the UK. While not really terrifying as the blurb makes it out to be, it was very well done, atmospheric and a very good adaptation of the source material with the proper ending (not the stupid one from the film). The stage design was very simplistic and the same ( Read more... )

Saturday started with The Toxic Avenger, the Troma classic. Unfortunately, this was a museum archive print so the then UK theatrical release meaning it was cut to shreds but still enjoyable in that hammy, schlock horror way, even if some bits were a bit iffy by today's standards. Overall fun, though.
Next up, Captain Clegg, a classic Hammer feature ( Read more... )

First, I caught the first half our of Flesh and Blood, a documentary about the history of Hammer. This would have been rather interesting, especially with Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing narrating and it being a proper cut (not what shown on TV) but I really wanted to see Big Trouble in Little China in 70mm, one of my teenage favourites so it was ( Read more... )

I've been looking forward to seeing this new Hammer film since it was first announced and the wait was well worth it. It is very atmospheric and creepy and made even me jump a couple of times (although it was more the guy next to me who jumped all the time and made me jump because he was physically close...). Dan Radcliffe is rather good as the ( Read more... )

I'd heard/seen various people praising this film and as I was in town anyway and it was on at the Picturehouse at the time, I thought I'd see it ( Read more... )

As I now have Tuesdays free, I can finally use the Cheap Day offer at VUE properly and with a voucher from the previous week, a film in the evening only costs 2.95.

If you're looking for an entertaining, scary film to watch, I can only recommend Don't be Afraid of the Dark. It was produced and written by Guillermo del Toro and it shows. The style ( Read more... )

So yes, even after sleeping on it, the new Conan film is pretty damn good. If I had two criticisms I'd say the dialogue was too modern and not corny enough and a few sequences were only there for 3D effects ( Read more... )

After getting treated at Alimentum yesterday evening (more on that and why when I've got the photos processed properly), I took the opportunity of being near Cineworld and went to see the new X-Men ( Read more... )

The Fantastic Films Weekend is an annual, three-day festival of horror, fantasy and SciFi films at the National Media Museum in Bradford.
I'd arrived already arrived on Thursday evening, had a good night's sleep and was ready for the onslaught of films I was going to watch.
Friday
The first film was Bloodbath at the House of Death. Only knowing ( Read more... )

First film was Let's Scare Jessica to Death, a bit of a slow burner with a mostly hysterical main character but it had some OK passages. The magenta print probably didn't help ( Read more... )