|
4/5
|
88%
|
Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) |
"
Into Darkness is in large part designed to make Trek fans nudge one another in the ribs and emit excited fanboy yelps of recognition. How much you enjoy the film will depend on your appetite for homage."
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SFX Magazine
Posted May 8, 2013
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3.5/5
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——
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Dead End Drive-In (1986) |
"
The film shifts into top gear in the final reel, becoming more explicitly political. And the sticking-it-to-the-man finale has all the fun of a demolition derby."
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SFX Magazine
Posted Apr 18, 2013
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3/5
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——
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Scanners III: The Takeover (Scanner Force) () |
"
Replete with people crashing through sheet glass, roundhouse kicks to the face, sexy nurses and underwater exploding heads, Scanners III is spectacularly stupid - and surprisingly entertaining."
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SFX Magazine
Posted Apr 10, 2013
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2/5
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Scanners II: The New Order (1991) |
"
The main draw is Raoul Trujillo as Scanner Drak; he seems to have seen the first film and set himself the challenge of chewing more scenery than Patrick McGoohan and Michael Ironside combined."
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SFX Magazine
Posted Apr 10, 2013
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|
4/5
|
76%
|
Scanners (1981) |
"
With its shoot-outs, car crashes and explosions, Scanners is the closest the king of body horror ever came to a Hollywood action movie."
—
SFX Magazine
Posted Apr 10, 2013
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|
5/5
|
93%
|
Horror of Dracula (1958) |
"
A brisk, exciting film with lavish-looking production design and a pulse-pounding score."
—
SFX Magazine
Posted Mar 8, 2013
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|
3.5/5
|
75%
|
From Beyond (1986) |
"
If you have a strong stomach it's all sorts of sicko, shiversome fun. Bad trip, good movie."
—
SFX Magazine
Posted Mar 8, 2013
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|
2.5/5
|
25%
|
Paranormal Activity 4 (2012) |
"
There's no tension, not a single bone-chilling moment, and a key revelation about one character's true identity makes zero sense."
—
SFX Magazine
Posted Mar 8, 2013
|
|
3.5/5
|
——
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Doctor Who - The Aztecs (2000) |
"
The Aztecs' reputation is as a thoughtful treatise on altering the timeline, but this four-parter is just as interested (if not more) in placing our heroes in deadly peril."
—
SFX Magazine
Posted Mar 8, 2013
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|
3/5
|
94%
|
Room 237 (2013) |
"
Kubrick fans will find the way the film points out things you may not have noticed interesting, regardless of whether you consider such things to be meaningless inconsistencies or carefully seeded clues."
—
SFX Magazine
Posted Mar 8, 2013
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|
3/5
|
63%
|
Sinister (2012) |
"
The super-8 snuff movies are by far the best thing about Sinister; they're just so imaginatively horrible. Unfortunately, much of the rest of the film is disappointingly trite."
—
SFX Magazine
Posted Feb 8, 2013
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|
4/5
|
64%
|
Antiviral (2013) |
"
For fans of Cronenberg Sr, Antiviral pushes plenty of pleasurable buttons. Indeed, Brandon is so on-brand, the film so archly Cronenbergian, that at times it approaches parody."
—
SFX Magazine
Posted Feb 8, 2013
|
|
2.5/5
|
——
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The Girl From Rio (Future Women) (The Seven Secrets of Sumuru) (1969) |
"
It's the sort of film which would look great projected on the wall in a swinging mod nightclub, but is immensely frustrating to actually sit through properly."
—
SFX Magazine
Posted Jan 23, 2013
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|
2.5/5
|
39%
|
The Possession (2012) |
"
The story beats are all so blandly familiar that there are no real surprises. A pointless exorcise."
—
SFX Magazine
Posted Jan 23, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
79%
|
Grabbers () |
"
It feels like an unsatisfactorily backhanded compliment to call this charming indie the Irish Tremors, because it's a cut above pretty much every monster-mash horror-comedy of the last two decade."
—
SFX Magazine
Posted Jan 2, 2013
|
|
3.5/5
|
39%
|
Zombi 2 (1980) |
"
While Zombie Flesh Eaters' stand-out moments are so vivid that, when viewed through the fog of memory, it seems like a classic, closer examination reveals all manner of disappointing flaws."
—
SFX Magazine
Posted Nov 28, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
55%
|
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (2012) |
"
When it comes to Keira Knightley, you can see the cogs grinding; it's far too arch a performance. It's impossible to buy this budding romance."
—
SFX Magazine
Posted Nov 3, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
90%
|
La Mort en direct (Death Watch) (Death in Full View) (1980) |
"
It's a curiously unsatisfying film in some ways: a little too restrained; too detached. "
—
SFX Magazine
Posted Nov 3, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
20%
|
Chernobyl Diaries (2012) |
"
Chernobyl Diaries deserves no prizes for originality (or good taste) but it makes a decent fist of its simple pitch by executing everything it requires extremely efficiently."
—
SFX Magazine
Posted Oct 19, 2012
|
|
4.5/5
|
93%
|
The Devil Rides Out (1968) |
"
Hammer's excitingly urgent adaptation of Dennis Wheatley's 1934 occult thriller is a film with no first act and little by way of a third - and that's actually its great strength."
—
SFX Magazine
Posted Oct 19, 2012
|
|
3.5/5
|
100%
|
The Curse of Frankenstein (1957) |
"
The film is a little too confined and stagey, but Cushing skilfully conveys the Baron's sociopathic monomania with flashes of those intense blue eyes. "
—
SFX Magazine
Posted Oct 15, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
67%
|
The Pact (2012) |
"
Often painfully tense viewing, if The Pact proves one thing, it's that you can terrify without exploring original territory. "
—
SFX Magazine
Posted Sep 28, 2012
|
|
2.5/5
|
——
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GYO: Tokyo Fish Attack () |
"
This abbreviated adap of Junji Ito's horror manga telescopes the story, eliding certain events and losing much of its brooding atmosphere in the process. There's also some gratuitous 'sexing up'."
—
SFX Magazine
Posted Sep 21, 2012
|
|
5/5
|
92%
|
The Cabin in the Woods (2012) |
"
The Cabin In The Woods is the best Joss Whedon film of 2012, surpassing the achievement of The Avengers through dint of being a far more radical take on its genre."
—
SFX Magazine
Posted Sep 21, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
41%
|
Silent House (2012) |
"
Although still interesting principally as a technical exercise, this is one of those very rare cases where it's possible to recommend watching the remake first."
—
SFX Magazine
Posted Sep 19, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
38%
|
Lockout (Unrated) (2012) |
"
The sort of movie that, in decades past, would have top-lined Kurt Russell or Jean-Claude Van Damme - a macho SF action flick with no artistic pretensions."
—
SFX Magazine
Posted Aug 17, 2012
|
|
3.5/5
|
88%
|
Livide (Livid) () |
"
Increasingly surreal and frequently baffling, Livid is supremely creepy and holds considerably more surprises than the rote haunted house horror that initially appears to be in store."
—
SFX Magazine
Posted Aug 10, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
20%
|
Class of Nuke 'Em High (1986) |
"
Gleefully embraces bad taste... The results are rather like John Waters going genre. "
—
SFX Magazine
Posted Aug 3, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
——
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Doctor Who - The Greatest Show in the Galaxy (1999) |
"
Many of the details are an absolute delight - it's just a shame there isn't something more substantial underpinning them. "
—
SFX Magazine
Posted Jul 27, 2012
|
|
2.5/5
|
——
|
They Came from Beyond Space (1967) |
"
British horror specialists Amicus rarely dipped a toe into SF... Watching this cheesy effort, you can understand why."
—
SFX Magazine
Posted Jul 27, 2012
|
|
3.5/5
|
84%
|
Total Recall (1990) |
"
A symphony of breaking glass, swearing and Uzi fire occasionally interrupted by car chases or flashes of tit, Total Recall seems to have been surgically targetted at a demographic of 14-year-old boys."
—
SFX Magazine
Posted Jul 13, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
——
|
Doctor Who - Death to the Daleks () |
"
A perfectly adequate four episodes of generic action-adventure."
—
SFX Magazine
Posted Jun 21, 2012
|
|
4.5/5
|
90%
|
The Return of the Living Dead (1985) |
"
A zom-com blessed with real tension and characters you can actually care about, it's superior to at least three of George Romero's Dead movies (possibly four."
—
SFX Magazine
Posted Jun 11, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
79%
|
The Innkeepers (2012) |
"
A gruelling trial of audience patience."
—
SFX Magazine
Posted Jun 11, 2012
|
|
4.5/5
|
95%
|
Island of Lost Souls (The Island of Dr. Moreau) (1933) |
"
Of all the horror films of this period, perhaps only Freaks retains as powerful a transgressive charge."
—
SFX Magazine
Posted May 25, 2012
|
|
4.5/5
|
86%
|
X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes (1963) |
"
A Venn diagram intersection of three different brands of exploitation... Refreshingly zesty pulp, with a sprinkling of poetry."
—
SFX Magazine
Posted May 25, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
85%
|
Chronicle (2012) |
"
There's no compelling reason for Chronicle to be a found-footage movie. Indeed, for long passages, as an omniscient camera swoops around, free of any apparent operator, you might forget that it even is one."
—
SFX Magazine
Posted May 25, 2012
|
|
4.5/5
|
——
|
Tourist Trap (1979) |
"
Weds an older tradition of the uncanny with the more brutalist '70s mode, combining the unheimlich with the psychopathic. The results are seriously creepy. "
—
SFX Magazine
Posted May 16, 2012
|
|
3.5/5
|
83%
|
The Kiss of the Vampire (Kiss of Evil) (1963) |
"
A faint tang of the perverse is such an unusual flavour that it distracts you from the complete absence of Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing - and the bought-from-Woolworths plastic bats..."
—
SFX Magazine
Posted Apr 2, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
——
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Doctor Who - Nightmare of Eden (1999) |
"
The only thing that's really wrong with "Nightmare Of Eden" is the design, and much of the paucity of that can be put down to BBC penny-pinching. "
—
SFX Magazine
Posted Mar 29, 2012
|
|
3.5/5
|
——
|
Doctor Who - The Daemons (1993) |
"
Viewed through the forgiving haze of nostalgia, 'The Daemons' is considered a classic. But sit down and watch it end to end with an unforgiving eye and its many shortcomings sadly become all too obvious."
—
SFX Magazine
Posted Mar 18, 2012
|
|
3.5/5
|
83%
|
Dracula - Prince of Darkness (1966) |
"
Quintessential Hammer, containing all the elements you'd expect... And that's the problem."
—
SFX Magazine
Posted Mar 2, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
36%
|
In Time (2011) |
"
Andrew Niccol's dystopia never really feels like anything other than a depthless, stylish sleek surface."
—
SFX Magazine
Posted Feb 27, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
98%
|
Repo Man (1984) |
"
Crammed with quotable, often gnomic one-liners, and set to an achingly cool soundtrack of hardcore punk, it's a movie with a disreputable, insolent charm."
—
SFX Magazine
Posted Feb 20, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
58%
|
Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark (2011) |
"
Unlikely to leave many adult viewers with a case of nyctophobia."
—
SFX Magazine
Posted Feb 17, 2012
|
|
5/5
|
80%
|
Videodrome (1983) |
"
Simultaneously sleazy and cerebral, it's a film whose surrealist setpieces burn a brand on the brain."
—
SFX Magazine
Posted Jan 3, 2012
|
|
3.5/5
|
61%
|
Mimic (1997) |
"
Del Toro's excision of 95% of the "second-unit crap" foisted on him makes this cut a more subtle work."
—
SFX Magazine
Posted Oct 28, 2011
|
|
4.5/5
|
68%
|
Paranormal Activity 3 (2011) |
"
As before, this third entry in the franchise brushes aside such fripperies as a complex, involving narrative and drills straight down into our most primal fears. The results are as nerve-jangling as ever."
—
SFX Magazine
Posted Oct 23, 2011
|
|
3.5/5
|
——
|
Doctor Who - Planet of the Spiders (2000) |
"
It's fascinating to see a dash of Eastern philosophy stirred into the usual recipe."
—
SFX Magazine
Posted Oct 12, 2011
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