Win Tickets for Psychomania Screening

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This Saturday (13th) the Rio Cinema in Dalston plays host again to London-based Cigarette Burns – an outlet to discover the weird and wonderful world of alternative genre cinema. This month’s left field cinematic offering (for which they’ve very kindly offered us two tickets to give away) is Brit biker classic, Psychomania. This 1973 feature [...]

The B-Movie DVD Collection Review

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There are some films which lay undisturbed in the video vault, and with good reason, others are waiting to be rediscovered and that is the joy of this box set. To instantly decry these films as exploitative trash is to miss the point, though it is not an unjustified criticism – if you’re interested in [...]

A Brief History of the Hollywood Zombie – Part Two

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To celebrate the US release of Zombieland, on Wednesday i began with A Brief History of the Hollywood Zombie Part One, and yesterday looked at the film that changed the genre, Night of the Living Dead. Today i conclude my piece with Part Two, beginning with the 1970′s. 1970′s Romero’s follow up to Night of [...]

Review: Did You Ever See…Night of the Living Dead?

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Yesterday, to coincide with the US release of Zombieland, i began a look at Zombie movies from time in A Brief History of the Hollywood Zombie Part 1. We saw how Zombies began in movies, and charted their evolution up to 1968, when The Night of the Living Dead was released. Now, we’ll take a look [...]