Written by Ray Cameron and Barry Cryer, and directed by Cameron, Bloodbath at the House of Death was a comedy horror that set out to spoof the likes of The Amityville Horror. The film is based at Headstone Manor where a number of unusual events have taken place throughout the years. […]
Daniel Monzón’s The Kovak Box follows a best-selling science fiction author named David Norton (Timothy Hutton) who is a bit on a control freak. As the story unfolds Norton is invited to an idyllic Mediterranean island for a conference. Shortly after arriving Norton’s fiancée Jane (Georgia Mackenzie) receives a strange […]
Directed by Joseph McGrath, and based on the novel by Ted Key, Digby – The Biggest Dog in the World follows Digby, an Old English Sheepdog accidentally drinks a bowl of Project X (a liquid growth experimental fertilizer) and expands to gigantic proportions. Two criminals spot Digby and decide […]
Directed by Harley Cokeliss (credited as Harley Cokliss – his name at birth) The Glitterball follows two teenage boys called Max (Ben Buckton) and Pete (Keith Jayne) who try to help a tiny spherical alien get back to its mothership. As they attempt this they are chased by the army led […]
Based on the novel by Ryo Hanmura, G.I. Samurai (aka Time Slip)follows the adventures of a modern-day (modern day being 1979) Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF) team that accidentally travels in time to the Warring States period. The accident happens when a patrol boat and a helicopter suddenly […]
As far as Japanese horror films go, Audition, directed by Takashi Miike, is up there with the best of them when it comes to down right disturbing horror! Based on the book of the same name by Ryu Murakami, the plot follows recent widower, Shigeharu Aoyama (Ryo Ishibashi), whose […]
In 1979, in a small corner of Australia, cinema history was made when the world first met “Mad” Max Rockatansky (played by Mel Gibson). Max’s world, which is “a few years from now,” is a bleak desolate dystopian future was created by director George Miller and producer Byron Kennedy. As the […]
Written and directed by a debuting Darren Aronofsky, Pi follows Max Cohen (Sean Gullette) an unemployed man who lives in a shabby Chinatown apartment in New York City. Max is a number theorist who believes that everything in nature can be understood through numbers. He is capable of doing simple arithmetic calculations […]
Based on a non-fiction novel by Frank Elli about an Arizona prison riot, director Buzz Kulik brings the shocking events to the big screen – using real-life prison warden Frank A. Eyman and real-life prisoners as extras. As the movie opens the warden (Eyman) of a state prison is away, and […]
“Sacrifice your soul to Shango in the blood ritual of life and death!” Jenny (Marlene Clark) is a small-town single mother to teen Billie (Avis McCarther). Yearning for another child, Jenny heeds the advice of her shifty boyfriend, Memphis (Wally Taylor), who suggests she let the local preacher baptize her. […]
Based on Frank Crisp’s novel The Night Callers, Night Caller From Outer Space follows Scientist Jack Costain (John Saxon) who investigates a meteorite in the British countryside, discovering that it is an alien device from Ganymede, a moon of Jupiter. They capture a tall alien and take it […]
In the year 2008, global warming and heavy rainfall has left large areas of London flooded. Rookie police officer Dick Durkin (Neil Duncan) is assigned to partner with Harley Stone (Rutger Hauer), a burnt-out and highly cynical veteran homicide detective who, according to his commanding officer, survives on “anxiety, […]
The planet Krull is invaded by an entity known as “The Beast” and his army of futuristic “Slayers”, who travel the galaxy in a mountain-like spaceship called the Black Fortress. The Slayers attack the wedding of Prince Colwyn (Ken Marshall) and Princess Lyssa (Lysette Anthony) – who are marrying in a […]
Stel, a humanoid alien (Mark Strange), teams up with a British soldier John Marrettie (Malcolm Hankey). They are searching for a top secret file which contains information about advanced energy production, captured alien spacecraft and the extraterrestrial pilots. The missing include Stel’s father, Arakawa, who was shot down […]
Written and directed by Stephen Norrington, Death Machine takes place in an excessively violent 2003 where megacorporation Chaank Armament is the world’s leading manufacturer of cutting-edge weapons and military hardware. Unfortunately Chaank Armament has a cybernetically-enhanced supersoldier codenamed Hard Man who malfunctions and massacres the patrons of a roadside diner. Hard […]
Co-written (with Simon Lewis), directed and co-produced and starring Noel Clarke, The Anomaly is set in a future where a battle exists over control of the mind and of cutting-edge biotechnology. We follow ex-soldier Ryan Reeve (Clarke) who wakes up in the back of a van next to a young boy, Alex […]
Based Edgar Wallace’s novel of the same name, director Norman Lee’s The Door with Seven Locks (aka Chamber of Horrors) begins with the death of Lord Selford (Aubrey Mallalieu) a wealthy man who is entombed with a valuable deposit of jewels. Seven keys are required to unlock the tomb and get […]
In La Caverne Maudite (aka Cave of the Demons) a young woman stumbles across a cave that is populated by the spirits and skeletons of people who died there under mysterious circumstances in this Georges Méliès directed horror film. The film was innovative in many ways including the […]
Viewed by many as the first horror film and first Vampire film, Le Manoir du diable (aka The House of the Devil, The Haunted Castle, The Devil’s Castle) is an 1896 French short silent film written and directed by Georges Méliès. The film opens with a large bat flying into a medieval castle. The bat circles the room, before suddenly […]
One of the men of dangerous Tanaka (Mako) has stolen a statuette that he had planned to use as a peace offering between local Yakuza and the rival Chinese Tong. Tanka hires two private investigators for the exchange of bailout money to restore the statue, but the deal goes wrong and Clay […]
