Tom Jolliffe looks at 13 underrated franchise horror sequels that deserve more love… Franchise horror rule of thumb generally goes like this: the first film is a trailblazing classic. The sequels increasingly diminish in quality. Some franchises might well have die hard fans, but it can often be the case that those classic originals such […]
The Best Scenes in the Alien Franchise
Casey Chong on the best scenes in the Alien franchise… The last time we got an Alien movie resulted in the so-so effort of Alien: Covenant. That was seven years ago, back in the day before Disney acquired Fox. The movie franchise found itself in hyper sleep ever since until Fede Alvarez of the Evil […]
The Worst Movies From The Best Horror Franchises
EJ Moreno looks at lackluster entries from in horror… Horror fans will tell you that even movie series they find to be absolute classics will have at least one stinker. No franchise is safe from a bad film, regardless of the genre. But there’s something about a bad horror movie that can shake the foundation […]
The Enviable “Worst” Films of David Fincher
It’s time to look at arguably David Fincher’s worst films… but fear not, as they’re all still pretty great… Directors come and go. Some have an enviable legacy born of a stellar CV. Such power usually means they can make what they want and indulge however they please. Martin Scorsese seems to find it increasingly […]
The Films of 1992: A Great Year For Movies
Tom Jolliffe ventures back 30 years to 1992, a year full of breakouts, action spectacle, iconic soundtracks and more… In my retrospective delve into the year of 1982, I boldly claimed that it might have been the greatest year of film ever. As I thrust my time machine forward a decade, I wandered the cinematic […]
Aliens star Michael Biehn to reprise Hicks role for Alien 3 audio drama
Michael Biehn, one of the stars of Aliens, is going to reprise his role for a new Alien 3 audio drama. Aliens is certainly one of the classic sci-fi movies of all time and a truly worthy sequel to the original sensation that was Alien. While there have been subsequent sequels after Aliens, writer William […]
Kotobukiya’s ARTFX Dog Alien statue from Alien 3 revealed
Sideshow and Kotobukiya have released promotional images for the 1:10 scale ARTFX Dog Alien statue from David Fincher’s 1992 sci-fi horror Alien 3. The collectible is available to pre-order now, priced at $89.99; check it out here… SUPPORT FLICKERING MYTH: Order via Sideshow Collectibles Kotobukiya proudly presents the Dog Alien ARTFX Statue from Alien 3. This beautifully […]
Preview of William Gibson’s Alien 3 #2
Dark Horse Comics continues its adaptation of William Gibson’s unproduced screenplay for Alien 3 this December, and you can take a look at a preview of the second issue here… This is the official adaptation of the original screenplay for Alien 3, written by William Gibson, the award-winning science fiction author of the cyberpunk cult […]
Unproduced Alien 3 screenplay is being adapted into a comic book series
Dark Horse Comics has announced that it is dusting off legendary sci-fi author William Gibson’s unproduced original script for Alien 3 for a comic book adaptation from writer and artist Johnnie Christmas. “When your first contracted screenplay (or screenplay of any kind, in my case) isn’t produced, but the film is eventually made with a […]
October Horrors 2017 Day 13 – Alien 3 (1992)
Alien 3, 1992. Directed by David Fincher. Starring Sigourney Weaver, Charles Dance, Charles S. Dutton, Brian Glover, and Lance Henriksen. SYNOPSIS: An escape pod containing Ripley, Newt and Hicks crash lands on a wind-battered prison planet, with Ripley being the sole survivor. Finding herself trapped on a planet whose entirely male population consists of murderers […]
