Tag: 1980’s
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By Isabelle Cocozza Advertorial for Forbidden Worlds Film Festival: The Big Scream ‘Giallo’ was an Italian horror film subgenre or movement beginning in the 1960’s and fizzling out around the late 1980’s. It is characterised by eccentric murder-mystery plots featuring leather-gloved, razor wielding killers and their beautiful victims, drenched in neon lighting and accompanied by…
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Our first screening has arrived. In collaboration with the incredible distributor and physical media purveyor Vinegar Syndrome, Culture Film Publication is presenting erotic horror/exploitation hidden gem The Black Room (1982) – incredibly rarely ever screened since its release. It is directed by Elly Kenner and Norman Thaddeus Vane, and stars Stephen Knight, Cassandra Gava, Jimmy…
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By Ros Tibbs A powerhouse in B-movies, cult cinema and direct-to-video sci-fi, action flicks, filmmaker Albert Pyun has has 40 eccentric and dazzling features listed in his credits, beginning with his director debut The Sword and the Sorcerer in 1982, and ending with 2017’s Interstellar Civil War, released five years before his passing. Pyun’s cinematic…
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by Aninda Provati The LGBTQ+ community has long been fascinated with the horror genre even when it was hard to see the perfect representation in mainstream films back then. Directors started adding queer subtexts to their films, but they were used mostly to create the villains, the terrifying monsters out for blood. Queer fans soon…
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by Aninda Provati I had the chance to attend “Breaking Barriers: Colombians in the British film industry” at the University of Westminster on 16th July. It was part of the first edition of London Columbian Film Festival (LCFF 2026) hosted by Col Films Limited. The festival runs from 13th July to 26th July with…
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by Adam Page Any honest conversation about body horror has to start in one uncomfortable place: with the recognition that the flesh was never really ours in the first place. It never was. It’s a collaboration between everything that wanted something from you before you had a name for wanting. Your nervous system is a…
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by Laura Barnes “This whole city’s goin’ to hell!” the thick Brooklyn accent bursts from Cultplex’s speakers. “Ya can’t take a pee anywhere!” And the cinema erupts into laughter, unrestrained and infectious. Tonight, Cultplex has been taken over by the motley crew over at Interference Films, a Manchester-based collective dedicated to sourcing and screening lost…
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by Zak Coates Two monsters haunted Forbidden Worlds: a dragon and a beast. I had the opportunity to attend the Forbidden Worlds film festival at the Bristol Megascreen on 24th April, it proved to be a captivating introduction to the communal energy of fantasy fandom. I attended the festival primarily to see Brotherhood of the…
