HCF Reviews
BULLET BALLET (1998)
Available now on Blu-ray and on VOD from Arrow Films One day I hope to enjoy life with even a small amount of the insane energy found in the 16mm films of Shinya Tsukamoto. Which […]
Year Made: 1998
Drama
FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS [1998]: On Limited Edition Blu-ray Now
USA AVAILABLE ON BLU-RAY: NOW, from ARROW VIDEO RUNNING TIME: 118 mins REVIEWED BY: Dr Lenera, Official HCF Critic It’s 1971, and journalist Raoul Duke has been assigned by a magazine to travel to […]
HCF Reviews
PHANTASM 4: OBLIVION [1998]: On Dual Format 25th April
USA AVAILABLE ON DUAL FORMAT: 25th April, from ARROW VIDEO in the PHANTASM LIMITED EDITION COLLECTION BOXSET RUNNING TIME: 91 min REVIEWED BY: Dr Lenera, Official HCF Critic Mike flees from Boulton mortuary in […]
Columns
Hughesy’s HCF Slasherthon: No 1: Urban Legend!
FILM Urban Legend YEAR OF RELEASE September 25th 1998 BUDGET $14 Million GROSS REVENUE $73 Million BOGEYMAN A guess the killer slash film MASK None (A hood of a coat covers the […]
HCF Reviews
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA [1998]: Dario Argento Triple Bill
AKA IL FANTASMA DELL ‘OPERA Italy AVAILABLE ON BLU-RAY AND DVD RUNNING TIME: 99 min/96 min/92 min REVIEWED BY: Dr Lenera, Official HCF Critic In Paris 1877, a pack of rats save an abandoned […]
Features
Phantasm – A Look Back, A Look Forward [HCF REWIND]
With Phantasm V – Ravager announced as having been already filmed and in the can as well as the 35th anniversary of the original Phantasm film this week. I’m going to take a look back […]
HCF Reviews
GODZILLA KING OF THE MONSTERS #23: GODZILLA [1998]
HCF REWIND NO. 180: GODZILLA [US 1998] AVAILABLE ON DVD AND BLU-RAY RUNNING TIME: 133 min REVIEWED BY: Dr Lenera, Official HCF Critic Following a nuclear incident in French Polynesia, a lizard’s nest […]
HCF Reviews
THE RAGE: CARRIE 2 [1998] ‘DOC’S CARRIE WEEK, FILM NO. 2’ [HCF REWIND]
HCF REWIND NO. 172: THE RAGE: CARRIE 2 [US 1998] AVAILABLE ON DVD RUNNING TIME: 96 min REVIEWED BY: Dr Lenera, Official HCF Critic Barbara Lang paints a barrier around her living room, using […]
HCF Reviews
Pi (1998) – Released on Bluray and DVD on Monday 14th August
Running time: 84 mins Certificate: 15 Reviewer: David Gillespie – Official HCF Artist [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQ1sZSCz47w[/youtube] 0.7854 is a number that I use almost every day in my work to calculate the area of a circle, contributing […]
HCF Reviews
IN DREAMS [1998] [HCF REWIND]
HCF REWIND NO. 125: IN DREAMS [1998] AVAILABLE ON DVD RUNNING TIME: 96 min REVIEWED BY: Dr Lenera, Official HCF Critic Claire Cooper is an illustrator of books of fairy tale who lives […]
Documentary
FAREWELL, BABYLON / BORGES, A LIFE IN POETRY / ARRABAL, PANIK CINEAST [THREE DOCUMENTARIES] Available on DVD from Cult Epics
Coming to the end of our exploration of Fernando Arrabal’s work, we look at the final disc in Cult Epics’s second Arrabel box set which comprises three documentaries, but, this being Arrabal, these are not […]
Drama
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas is the tale of journalist, Raoul Duke and his Samoan attorney, Dr Gonzo (a thinly disguised Hunter S Thompson and his friend Oscar […]
Genres
HALLOWEEN H20
Reviewed By Ross Hughes And we come full circle! The unexpected success of all things Scream made the Slash genre all fashionable again in the late nineties. Written by Halloween fan Kevin Williamson, the horror not […]
Monster
Deep Rising (1998) by Pazuzu
The one that Hughes Ross somehow forgot to mention in his list. Seriously, how do you forget a film like this??? Anyway, personal attacks aside, Deep Rising is a phenomenal movie. It gained cult status […]
Horror
Ringu (1998) by Pazuzu
SPOILERS! As you can probably tell from my lists, I like a horror with a good story; I like to be drawn in and hopefully suffocated by horror. I do love the stalk and slash […]