Over the past few years we’ve seen boutique labels go from serving a niche audience to becoming the driving force behind premium home entertainment. Companies like Second Sight Films, Radiance, 88 Films, Indicator, Shout! Studios, Scream Factory, 101 Films and the rapidly growing Last Slate Video have all helped make collecting films exciting again, while…
Yesterday we took a look at Second Sight Films’ outstanding release of The Ugly Stepsister. Today, we’re staying with one of the UK’s finest boutique labels, but swapping twisted fairy tales for psychological crime with Erik Skjoldbjærg’s superb Insomnia. Released in 1997, Insomnia has often lived in the shadow of Christopher Nolan’s 2002 remake starring…
Who are you gonna call? Apparently, a whole new generation of Ghostbusters. Netflix has unveiled the first official images from Ghostbusters: Night Shift, the upcoming animated series that will continue the beloved franchise’s long history on the small screen. Alongside the new images comes an intriguing revelation: the series will be set in 1994, five…
Every so often a film comes along that takes a story everybody knows and somehow makes it feel completely fresh again. That is exactly what Emilie Blichfeldt achieves with The Ugly Stepsister, a darkly comic, gothic and often deeply uncomfortable retelling of the Cinderella story that has quickly become one of the most talked-about genre…
Somewhere, a streaming executive has just spilled their coffee. While the entertainment industry continues its relentless push toward digital ownership, cloud libraries and subscription services, one format simply refuses to stay dead. VHS has survived DVDs, Blu-rays, streaming platforms, digital downloads and approximately seven hundred declarations of its demise. Now it has claimed another major…
Mark Lewis has officially entered the Premier Class Tier of the Hall of Killers, proving that you don’t need a hockey mask, a chainsaw, supernatural powers or a habit of returning from the dead every few years to become one of horror’s most important murderers. Sometimes all you need is a camera, a deeply traumatic…
Physical media collectors are eating remarkably well right now. First Last Slate Video, and now Toy Robot Video. For years, streaming services were supposed to make Blu-rays and 4K discs obsolete. Industry experts repeatedly predicted the end of physical media, arguing that shelves full of movies would eventually become relics of the past. Instead, the…
NECA is continuing its celebration of horror’s greatest slasher icon with the reveal of a brand-new Jason Voorhees action figure, and this time the company is diving into one of the strangest and most divisive chapters in the Friday the 13th franchise. The toy giant has officially unveiled its new Part 9 Jason 7-inch scale…
Scott Beck and Bryan Woods are heading back into science fiction. The filmmaking duo behind Heretic, A Quiet Place and 65 have signed on to write and direct a brand-new science fiction movie for Universal Pictures and Steven Spielberg’s legendary Amblin Entertainment. While plot details are being kept firmly under wraps, the project is being…
Curry Barker’s rise from online horror creator to one of the most sought-after filmmakers in Hollywood continues at remarkable speed. Following the phenomenal success of Obsession, which stunned the industry by becoming one of the biggest horror hits in recent memory with a reported box office haul of more than $300 million worldwide, Barker has…