Color Out Of Space (2019)

The final film I saw at this year’s MonsterFest was Color Out Of Space (2019), which I was very keen to see as a new adaptation of the HP Lovecraft story by cult director Richard Stanley (Hardware), his first film in many years after being booted off the 1996 flop, Island Of Dr Moreau. More […]

Robot Jox (1989)

Before Pacific Rim, before CGI, there was Robot Jox (1989). I remember seeing the ad for this on a lot of video rentals as a kid and thinking it looked like the coolest movie ever. Finally watching it now, I marvel at the old school special effects, stop motion puppets and clunky plastic sets to […]

Lifeforce (1985)

I owned the BluRay for a year before finally having a player to watch it on. After hearing about it for so long, I finally watched Lifeforce (1985), director Tobe Hooper’s infamous flop for Cannon Pictures about nude space vampires plunging London into zombie apocalypse, a sci-fi throwback to Hammer Horror movies. This has quite […]

Beyond The Black Rainbow (2010)

Beyond The Black Rainbow (2010) was made before Stranger Things, and is like one plot strand of that show slowed down by fifty times into an arty music video perfect for projecting at a music show. A drugged patient/prisoner (Eva Allan) displays psychic abilities even as she is being interviewed/taunted by a smarmy, smirking doctor […]

The Endless (2017)

Missed it in the brief window it was at cinemas, The Endless (2017) is a low budget, independent sci-fi mystery focused on two brothers (played by the directors, Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead). They’ve spent ten years living together working dead end jobs after escaping from a religious cult in the woods – one of […]