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How horror films scare us
??As The Woman in Black continues to spook audiences across the UK during it?s opening week, Nic Ransome of Hammer Films discusses what tricks film makers use in order to scare audiences: 1. Music – from the stomach-knotting insistence of John Williams’ Jaws theme to the violin stabs of Bernard Herrmann’s Psycho, from the repetitive…
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Scifi DVDs Out Today
Rundown of Scifi DVDs and Blu Rays Out 1st June Battlestar Galactica – The Final Season – Buy From Amazon – Compare Prices Primeval – Series 3 – Buy From Amazon – Compare Prices Terminator 2: Judgment Day: Skynet Edition Steel Tin [Blu-ray] – Buy From Amazon – Compare Prices Primeval – Series 1-3 DVD…
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Feeling REALLY old.
This is an update to this post which is 12 years old! If you are not feeling old now (and are a similar vintage to me) read this and see if you feel the same. The Arnie movie The Terminator is nearly 40 years old. The first sequel is over 30 years old and the…
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NEW Hellboy RPG from Nightfall Games and Mantic Games
Nightfall Games, who produce the Stokerverse and Terminator RPGs to name a few, are very proud and excited to announce we will be working Mantic Games to get their rather awesome ‘Hellboy RPG’ out into the roleplaying games community. In the original comics by Dark Horse Comics Mike Mignola’s Hellboy was summoned from Hell to…
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The Horus Heresy: Burning of Prospero – In Association with Element Games
Buy Here Save 20% with Element Games (correct at time of writing) Buy Here Save 20% with Element Games (correct at time of writing) The Horus Heresy: Burning of Prospero is a game of running battles set in a city torn apart. The players must choose sides and command a force of finely detailed Citadel…
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Sharknado 4 The Fourth Awakens – Review.
Yes I know it was on the other week. The problem is that I haven’t been able to sum up in words how amazingly bad this carcrash of a movie is. But that’s the point isn’t it? Well for the first movie it was, taking the so bad-it’s-good approach to low (ish) budget direct for…
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Pre Halloween Weekend TV.
Dear scifinders and fiends: We have ourselves a whole pre-halloween weekend of TV, plus an extra hour! I hope you can make the most of it, and don’t waste it on silly things like sleep Friday If you can get yourself early to the TV, Film4 at 6.25pm is showing King Kong (1976) – the…
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Falling Skies: Season 1 DVD / Blu Ray
Through the eyes of a child, war (even one of an extra-terrestrial nature) is terrifying beyond imagination. The crayoned drawings depict the invasion in such touching and graphic detail. Next, the Human race is shattered, close to extinction perhaps, but not defeated. There is resistance, the resolute grip on survival and attack. Food and provisions…
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Falling Skies: The Complete First Season – DVD
The epic alien-invasion saga from Warner Home Video and executive producer Steven Spielberg makes its DVD debut on 2nd July. Falling Skies: The Complete First Season will include numerous special features, including a sneak peek at the eagerly anticipated second season. Falling Skies chronicles the chaotic aftermath of an alien attack that leaves most of…
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Feeling Old?
If you are not feeling old now (and are a similar vintage to me) read this and see if you feel the same. The Arnie movie The Terminator is nearly 30 years old. The first sequel is over 20 years old and the third movie is nearly 10 years old. If Back To The Future…
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More Nazis in Scifi in Anno Frankenstein
Could Hitler?s ultimate weapon be our hero?s nemesis? Time travelling Nazi terrorists, flailing steampunk fisticuffs, dapper swashbucklers facing Hammer Horrors from before they were born ? Ulysses Quicksilver may have travelled into the past, but has he bitten off more than he can chew? Preorder Now Release 12 May 2011 ? ?7.99 (UK) – ISBN…
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X Men: First Class & Thor Panel at London Comic Con
X-Men: First Class writers Ashley Miller and Zack Stentz are to appear on a panel at the next MCM Expo London Comic Con, which takes place at ExCel London on 27-29 May, show organisers have announced. A prequel to the popular superhero franchise from Marvel and Twentieth Century Fox, X-Men: First Class focuses on the…