Tag: 1980s

  • 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…

    The Body Horrific: Barker, Cronenberg and the Queer Coding of Transformation
  • 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…

    Interference Films presents MANIAC COP (1988)
  • 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…

    Forbidden Worlds Film Festival: The Monster as Trial, The Monster as Control – DRAGONSLAYER (1981) & BROTHERHOOD OF THE WOLF (2001)

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