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10 Creepy Horror Movies Jump Scares

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Casey Chong looks at ten essential horror movie jump scares… Horror movies are all about the cinematic experience of scaring the hell out of you, keeping you on the edge of your seat and startling you while watching a scene. The latter is especially true with jump scares, one of the most widely-used visual techniques […]

Renny Harlin’s The Strangers: Chapter 2 gets a first teaser trailer

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After dropping part one earlier this year [read our review here] Lionsgate has now shared a trailer for The Strangers: Chapter 2, the second instalment in Renny Harlin’s trilogy reboot of the 2008 home invasion horror which sees the return of stars Madelaine Petsch, Gabriel Basso, and Ema Horvath; watch it below… On their way […]

Fight Club at 25: An Incendiary brew of satire, style, dark comedy & violence

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As it celebrates its 25th anniversary, Hasitha Fernando looks at the story behind Fight Club… To say Fight Club is one of the most controversial cinematic efforts of the 1990s would be an understatement. The film can be bunched with 1955’s Rebel Without a Cause and 1967’s The Graduate in terms of thematic similarities but […]

Trailer for Andrea Arnold’s Bird starring Barry Keoghan, Franz Rogowski and Nykiya Adams

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Ahead of its theatrical release this November, MUBI has shared a trailer for writer-director Andrea Arnold’s coming-of-age drama Bird which stars Barry Keoghan, Franz Rogowski, and Nykiya Adams; watch it below… Bailey lives with her brother Hunter and her father Bug, who raises them alone in a squat in northern Kent. Bug doesn’t have much […]

Trailer for sci-fi thriller The Fix starring Grace Van Dien

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Ahead of its digital release this November, a trailer and poster have arrived online for writer-director Kelsey Egan’s sci-fi thriller The Fix. Grace Van Dien stars as Ella, a young woman who becomes an unintended test subject for a pharmaceutical giant after taking a new drug at a party, but after attempting to reverse its […]

New trailer for action-thriller Welcome to Taipei starring Luke Evans and Sun Kang

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Ahead of its release this November, a new trailer has arrived online for director George Huang’s action thriller Weekend in Taipei. Luke Evans stars as John Lawlor, an undercover DEA agent who finds his cover blown while on an assignment in Taipei when he falls in love with his informant. Joining Evans in the cast […]

Lee Pace set for villain role in The Running Man remake

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Lee Pace knows all about playing a great villain, and he’s stretching those acting muscles once again. Known to the mainstream for his role as the villain Ronan in Marvel Studios’ Guardians of the Galaxy, Pace has joined Edgar Wright’s The Running Man adaptation alongside Katy O’Brian (Love Lies Bleeding) and the recently announced Josh […]

Comic Book Preview – Alien: Romulus #1

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Marvel Comics launches its Alien: Romulus comic book prelude series next week, and you can get yourself an early sneak peek at the first issue right now with the official preview below… Following the theatrical release of the highly anticipated blockbuster Alien: Romulus, Marvel Comics presents an all-new story revealing secrets of the film’s legendary […]

Unleash the beast inside with new Wolf Man trailer

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Wolf Man is a classic story told throughout generations, but this latest version could be the scariest yet. Christopher Abbott is about to wolf out with his beastly new role in Leigh Whannell’s (The Invisible Man) modern reimagining of the classic 1941 Universal Monsters movie.  Joining Abbott in the cast are Julia Garner, Matilda Firth, […]