Never Let Go Unleashed 3rd October!
Howard J Ford and his brother Jon have a rich history of scaring audiences. The Dead and The Dead 2: India both delivered imaginative, unusual takes on the zombie apolcaypse…
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Must-See Films at the 2016 BFI London Film Festival
When writing preview features for the London Film Festival it’s difficult to resist the numbers. Those big numbers representing how many films will show over the 12 day festival, how…
Top 10 Films of FrightFest 2016
FrightFest 2016 has been and gone, marking an impressive 17th consecutive year for the UK’s premiere horror film santa sangre. With new headline sponsor The Horror Channel replacing Film4 and…
Must-See Movies At FrightFest 2016
FrightFest returns this August Bank Holiday for its seventeenth year. And while the festival has been a mainstay of London’s Leicester Square for sixteen years, this time it is relocating…
Jon Ford Goes On The Offensive
Jon Ford, who, alongside his brother Howard, gave the zombie genre a shot of fresh blood with their unusual, memorable action-horror movies The Dead & The Dead 2. Here Jon talks…
Lean, Green Thrilling Machine – Jeremy Saulnier talks Green Room
Channelling the same sweaty-palmed tension, blood black humour and savage brilliance of Night of the Living Dead, Straw Dogs, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Assault on Precinct 13 (phew!), Green…
Bowie’s Big Screen Best
Over twenty credited movie roles on his IMdb page testify to David Bowie’s impressive body of film appearances. Not that he was an actor of extraordinary range. Although displaying a…
The Best Films of 2015
Welcome to the third annual Electric Shadows films of the year list. 2015 opened strong with It Follows landing in February and announcing itself as one of the most original…
2015 – Rewind and Re-View
That was the year that was 2015 then. As 2016 looms, let’s look back at what happened movie-wise. As is tradition, we’ll begin with… WORST FILM OF THE YEAR –…
How to Save the Star Wars Saga
If you’re reading this beyond the 18th of December 2015, there is a possibility the following is laughable nonsense, rendered obsolete by yet another disappointing episode in the Star Wars…