HCF Reviews
REPLACE (2017)
Available now on DVD and Amazon Prime Time for a bit of good old fashioned body horror, a sub-genre which is often employed to get both the brain cells and the stomach juices swirling once […]
Month: September 2019
HCF Reviews
CARGO (2017)
CARGO Directed by Ben Howling and Yolanda Ramke I know this has been out for a while, though as both a zombie film and a Netflix exclusive it’s never been top of my to watch […]
Cult TV
Creepshow: Episode 1 Review:
When you see The Creep for the first time since 1987 (lets ignore that third film from 2006) I can imagine any newcomers to this world of Stephen King will be laughing at the screen. Awful […]
HCF Reviews
Kaleidoscope: The Hughes Verdict!
Kaleidoscope starts with a nothing! A 25 second stationary shot of an old styled living room that depresses you just by looking. Its interrupted by a loud knock at the front door in which […]
HCF Reviews
Hell House LLC III: Lake Of Fire: The Hughes Verdict!
By the time the original Hell House LLC was released in 2015, its safe to say that horror fans had enough of the Found Footage genre. The straight to DVD offering arrived with not much hype […]
Games
The Surge 2 – HCF Videogame Review
Focus Home Interactive – Deck 13 Interactive – Out Now on PC, PlayStation 4 & Xbox One (version tested) Dark Souls, Sekeiro and Ni-oh are all games that are enough to send a shiver down […]
Action
RAMBO: LAST BLOOD [2019]: In Cinemas Now
USA IN CINEMAS NOW RUNNING TIME: 89 mins REVIEWED BY: Dr Lerena, Official HCF Critic Eleven years after the events in Burma, Vietnam War veteran John Rambo is living in Bowie, Arizona in his […]
Fantasy
SINBAD AND THE EYE OF THE TIGER [1977]
UK AVAILABLE ON BLU-RAY AND DVD RUNNING TIME: 113 mins REVIEWED BY: Dr Lenera, Official HCF Critic Prince Kassim is transformed during his coronation as Caliph of the city of Charak into a baboon […]
News
‘IRREVERSIBLE’ IS GETTING A RECUT IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER!
Though it’s certainly not easy viewing, I still believe that Gaspar Noé’s 2002 drama Irreversible is an absolute masterpiece and a film that the director still hasn’t matched. Though renowned mainly for its rape scene […]
News
NEW ‘GRUDGE’ TAKES PLACE AT THE EXACT SAME TIME AS THE 2004 VERSION
It sounds strange but it’s true – the new version of The Grudge, which is [rather thankfully] neither a sequel nor a remake, will, as director Nicolas Pesce said when interviewed by ‘Bloody Disgusting’: “Take […]
News
FEDE ALVAREZ WILL BE PRODUCING THE NEXT ‘TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE’ FILM
Last August the news broke that Legendary Entertainment/Legendary Pictures was planning to develop new films in the Texas Chain Saw Massacre franchise and also a TV series, after the company closed a deal with Kim […]
News
‘OVERLORD’ DIRECTOR JULIUS AVERY’S NEXT TO BE A THRILLER STARRING SYLVESTRE STALLONE
While it failed to pack ’em in at the box office, Julius Avery’s horror/war film was a load of ‘B’-movie fun, so any next project by him has my interest. Well, ‘Deadline’ reports that he’s […]
News
LOGAN MILLER RETURNING FOR ‘ESCAPE ROOM 2’
Escape Room seem to divide us in the HCF office, but despite it being hugely unbelievable [though no more unbelievable than any Saw film], I rather enjoyed it. The Adam Robitel-directed film ended with just […]
News
SID HAIG PASSES AWAY AT 80
The sad news hits us that Captain Spaulding himself, Sid Haig, passed away yesterday at the age of 80, though his limited amount of screen time in 3 From Hell suggested to many that he […]
Fantasy
THE GOLDEN VOYAGE OF SINBAD [1973]
USA AVAILABLE ON BLU-RAY AND DVD RUNNING TIME: 105 mins REVIEWED BY: Dr Lenera, Official HCF Critic While sailing, Sinbad obtains an amulet carried by a small winged creature belonging to aan evil magician […]
Events
THE 7TH VOYAGE OF SINBAD 4K RESTORATION SCREENING, ‘HARRYHAUSEN: THE LOST MOVIES’ BOOK PROMOTION AND Q AND A – Event Review
I’ve written quite a bit on Ray Harryhausen over my time at HCF, be it an attempt at an obituary or reviews of films and a documentary, but quite frankly it’s not something that I’m […]
Fantasy
THE 7TH VOYAGE OF SINBAD [1958]
USA AVAILABLE ON DVD AND BLU RAY RUNNING TIME: 88 mins AVAILABLE ON BLU-RAY AND DVD On the island of Colossa, Sinbad and his crew encounter Sakurah the magician fleeing and losing a magic […]
Comedy
KILLER SOFA (2019)
KILLER SOFA (2019) Written and Directed by Bernie Rao The arrival of a reclining chair triggers a series of deaths surrounding Francesca. Suspecting that the chair is a dybbuk, Rabbi Jack and his granddaughter Maxi, […]