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From Movies To The Computer Screen
With the help of lockdown, we are spending more and more on our devices and looking at screens. It’s easier than ever to watch your favourite movie, play the most popular computer game and enjoy […]
Month: August 2020
Ghost
The Woman In Black (1989) Out now on Blu-ray
THE WOMAN IN BLACK Directed by Herbert Wise As I write this, it’s a dark and stormy night – listen carefully and you can hear the wind howling. It’s a bad night for a stroll, […]
HCF Reviews
Impetigore (2019)
IMPETIGORE Directed by Joko Anwar When I first heard about Shudder, I assumed it’d be a place people could go to find schlocky, disposable flicks time forgot. While it’s got a lot of that too, […]
News
Eureka Entertainment To Release Robert Englund’s 80’s Horror 976-EVIL on Blu-Ray
Eureka Entertainment is set to release 976-EVIL, an outrageously enjoyable ‘80s horror from Robert “Freddy Krueger” Englund, on Blu-ray for the first time in the UK, as part of the Eureka Classics range. Available […]
News
Second Sight Announce Limited Edition Blu-Ray Boxset of THE STRANGERS
Horrifying home-invasion The Strangers, the 2008 debut film from writer-director Bryan Bertino (Mockingbird, The Monster), stars Liv Tyler (Lord of the Rings, The Leftovers) and Scott Speedman (Underworld, Animal Kingdom) as a couple terrorised by […]
Interviews
Interview: Rob Savage on Host
Horror movies have always been topical and used the genre to address real-world anxieties. Still, I can’t think of any that have been this darn topical. Host is a movie made in lockdown for people […]
HCF Reviews
The Vigil (2020) – In Cinemas Now
In these unsettling times, new films are seemingly few and far between, with countless indefinite delays unless made for VOD. Cinemas have re-opened here in the UK, albeit tentatively, which means films can be once […]
Ghost
Crime
BLESS THE CHILD [2000]: On Amazon Prime Now
USA AVAILABLE ON AMAZON PRIME: Now, from SIGNATURE ENTERTAINMENT RUNNING TIME: 107 mins REVIEWED BY: Dr Lenera Maggie O’Connor is a psychiatric nurse in New York City. When her homeless, heroin-addicted sister Jenna turns […]
Fantasy
HIGHLANDER II: THE QUICKENING [1991] [HCF GUILTY PLEASURES]
USA AVAILABLE ON BLU-RAY, DVD AND STREAMING RUNNING TIME: 109 mins/ 99 mins/ 91 mins REVIEWED BY: Dr Lenera “A very long time ago” or on the planet Zeist [depending on what version you […]
HCF Reviews
THE GAME (1997) – Arrow Academy Blu-Ray Review
THE GAME (1997) Directed by David Fincher Available on Limited Edition Blu-Ray A grumpy banker receives a birthday present from his brother for an experience with Consumer Recreation Services (CRS) which promise him a tailored […]