HCF Reviews
Promising Young Woman (2020)
PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN Directed by Emerald Fennell So far 2021 has been like how many envisioned 2020 – a steady stream of good but not great films I’ve been hoping I won’t need to put […]
Month: July 2021
HCF Reviews
Jumbo (2021)
Scream if you wanna go faster! In 2004, competitive archer, and Olympic gold medal winner, Erika Labrie, got married. In a ceremony of commitment, she took her partners surname, and now goes by Erika Eiffel. […]
Animation
DOGTANIAN AND THE THREE MUSKEHOUNDS [2021]: In Cinemas Now [Short Review]
SPAIN IN CINEMAS NOW RUNNING TIME: 84 mins REVIEWED BY: Dr Lenera In 17th century France, young Dogtanian, good with a sword but a bit arrogant, arrives in Paris, hoping to join the King’s […]
Features
ENDANGERED SPECIES Director M.J. Bassett’s Top Five African-Set Movies
A vast continent of 54 countries, from uncharted jungle to sweltering deserts and bustling cities, the African landscape has often proved the perfect backdrop for the movies. Following in the footsteps of many classic adventure […]
News
Lionsgate Announce Digital, DVD and Blu-Ray Release For Thriller ANTEBELLUM
Lionsgate UK has announce the home release of thriller ANTEBELLUM next month. From the producer of Get Out and Us, Antebellum stars Janelle Monáe as a woman who finds herself trapped in a terrifying reality […]
Events
Twenty-Five Films Announced For August’s Arrow Video FrightFest 2021 Main Programme
Arrow Video FrightFest, the UK’s biggest horror and fantasy film festival, is back at the Cineworld Leicester Square from Thurs August 26th – Monday 30th August, 2021 for five days of the very best of […]
News
Watch The Shocking Opening Scene of VICIOUS FUN Right Here
AMC Networks’ premium streaming service for horror, thrillers and the supernatural, has released the opening scene from Cody Calahan’s fabulously bloody blast from the past VICIOUS FUN. The new Original horror comedy film is now […]
News
Claustrophobic New Clip Revealed For THE BOY BEHIND THE DOOR
Ahead of its release next month, a clip has been revealed for Shudder Original, THE BOY BEHIND THE DOOR. In The Boy Behind the Door, a night of unimaginable terror awaits twelve-year-old Bobby (Lonnie Chavis) […]
News
Official Trailer and Clip Revealed For FEAR STREET PART 2: 1978
The FEAR STREET nightmare continues at Camp Nightwing but if you can’t wait, check out the trailer and a brand new clip below for FEAR STREET PART 2: 1978, directed by Leigh Janiak. Shadyside, 1978. […]
Drama
BITTER MOON [1992]
BITTER MOON (1992) FRANCE/UK AVAILABLE ON BLU-RAY [REGION ‘A’ AND ‘B’ ITALY ONLY], DVD and DIGITAL RUNNING TIME: 139 mins REVIEWED BY: Dr Lenera British couple Nigel and Fiona Dobson are on a Mediterranean […]
Comedy
THE FEARLESS VAMPIRE KILLERS [1967]
UK/US RUNNING TIME: 107 mins/ 91 mins AVAILABLE ON BLU-RAY [REGION ‘A’ ONLY], DVD and DIGITAL REVIEWED BY: Dr Lenera SPOILERS! Transylvania, in the mid-19th century. The elderly, almost withering Professor Abronsius, formerly of […]
HCF Reviews
THE TENANT [1976]
AKA LA LOCATAIRE FRANCE AVAILABLE ON BLU-RAY [REGION ‘A’ AND ‘D’ ONLY], DVD and DIGITAL RUNNING TIME: 122 mins REVIEWED BY: Dr Lenera SPOILERS! In Paris, shy business clerk Trelkovsky rents an old apartment […]
Drama
THE GREEN SEA (2021)
THE GREEN SEA (2021) Written and Directed by Randal Plunkett Out now on digital and on demand American heavy metal musician turned author Simone is struggling to write her second book. Having gained success with […]
News
CHILDREN OF THE CORN Trilogy Set To Receive Arrow Video Limited Edition Release
Best-selling author Stephen King sowed the seeds for a bumper crop of horror films with his classic collection Night Shift. But few would sprout into the kind of franchise that Children of the Corn would […]
News
THE SNAKE GIRL AND THE SILVER-HAIRED WITCH To Receive Worldwide Blu-Ray Debut
What do you get when Noriaki Yuasa, director of Daiei Studios’ much-beloved Gamera series, makes a monochrome film adaptation of the works of horror manga pioneer Kazuo Umezu (The Drifting Classroom)? The answer is 1968’s […]
News
Arrow Video To Release 80’s Slasher DEATH SCREAMS on Blu-Ray
In one of the most unlikely cinematic pairings of all time, David Nelson (who rose to fame as a child star playing alongside his real-life family in the wholesome TV show The Adventures of Ozzie […]
News
Discover Classic Terrors in Arrow Video’s Limited Edition Release of COLD WAR CREATURES: FOUR FILMS FROM SAM KATZMAN
Zombies! Werewolves! Atomic Mutation! Intergalactic Avians! Let this quartet of classic terrors take you back to the golden age of B-Movie Monsters! A mob boss hires an ex-Nazi scientist to reanimate his dead thugs in […]
News
Arrow Video Announce Release of THE FILMS OF OLIVER ASSAYAS Blu-Ray Boxset
Arrow Video is set to release The Films of Olivier Assayas boxset on Blu-Ray on 6th September 2021. Now recognised as one of French cinema’s finest talents courtesy of such modern classics as Carlos, Summer […]