Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn
The second part of original Evil Dead film trilogy starts peculiarly: an abridged and modified retelling of the events of the first film in the series, presumably hoping to avoid…
Comedy
The ‘Burbs
In one of Joe Dante‘s non-Creature Features, Tom Hanks and Carrie Fisher are young parents living in a seemingly idyllic suburban cul-de-sac, inhabited by suspicious busybodies. Their patriotic veteran neighbour…
Gremlins
Joe Dante continues his fascination with the chaos caused by hoards of small, vicious creatures that he started with Piranha, with the more family-friendly Gremlins. It is a theme he…
Halloween at Aunt Ethel’s
A shamelessly B-grade horror film that doesn’t try to be anything that more. Halloween at Aunt Ethel’s focuses on small town students – clearly played by actors older than their…
The Toxic Avenger
Troma Entertainment is known for their crude humour, overblown violence, and gratuitous nudity, and, whilst their crowning achievement, 1984’s The Toxic Avenger, features all of the studio’s hallmarks, it is…
Jules
When we think of science fiction drama, we probably envisage the spectacle of films like Arrival or Interstellar. In contrast, Jules plays more like a cosy drama that the usual…
Molli and Max in the Future
Set in some distant, anachronistic future, Molli and Max meet by chance in space, and spend the next 12 years plotting a course through space, dimensions, careers and romance. Taking…
Paul
Frequent collaborators Simon Pegg and Nick Frost team up again to star as a pair of science fiction fans visiting the USA for the San Diego Comic-Con, followed by a…