“John Carter” is based on Edgar Rice Burroughs’ first novel, “A Princess of Mars.” An American writer, Burroughs was born in Chicago and is best known for writing and creating [read on...]

It may not be a Marvel movie, but here are 5 reasons why Marvelites will want to see the ‘John Carter’ movie! After decades of starts and stops, a film [read on...]

All Hallow’s Eve is nearly upon us, and to get in the mood for the scares and thrills of the spookiest night of the year we’ve been thinking about the [read on...]

So as you may be away, HCF attended Grimm Up North 3, the North West’s only horror, sci-fi and fantasy film festival, last weekend (6th-9th October 2011). The film festival [read on...]

I’d be waiting all weekend for the first film to play on Sunday. Brought to us by the H.P Lovecraft Historical Society, who created the fantastic silent movie ‘Call of [read on...]

Day 3 kicked off with the stray in the Halloween series…. HALLOWEEN 3: SEASON OF THE WITCH. Not starring our favourite William Shatner mask wearing killer, Halloween 3 took on [read on...]

Day 2 and the Grimm Up North 3 film festival kicked off with The Dead Zone, the 1983 David Cronenberg film starring Christopher Walken. It really is fabulous seeing the [read on...]

I landed in Manchester and it was pouring down. What a way to start the day. I wandered lonely as a film nerd into the Great Northern Railway Warehouse building [read on...]

When you go to a film festival, you always tend to pick out the ‘must see’ films that you simply have to watch. Well, put a scribble or a star [read on...]

This post isn’t so much about a horror film as such, but the film is certainly eerie and contains elements of the supernatural. Most importantly the film in question is [read on...]

TV Advertisements….. the bane of my TV life.  You sit down to watch a programme or a movie and every 15mins, it cuts to a 3 minute ad break. This [read on...]

If you’ve seen the trailer for Scream 4 recently, you’ll see we have a new set of geeks replacing the role of Randy, who tell us that the rules of [read on...]