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The Statue of Liberty’s head bounces down 5th Avenue, crushing cars, her patinated face ravaged by claw marks from an unseen creature. Audiences seated for Transformers in 2007 caught sight of this in a short teaser (opens in new tab) for an untitled movie, unaware of what it was promoting. …

The Criterion Collection has long been the gold standard for home video releases, a ‘film-school-in-a-box’ that offers the best-looking and most comprehensive editions of classic, contemporary, art house, foreign, and cult films alike. Featuring gorgeous covers, booklets filled with film critique and interviews, and video transfers that simultaneously restores and …

That Ghostbusters trailer, then. I wasn’t expecting that. I wasn’t expecting anything as exciting as that. It’s not that I wasn’t on-board already, you understand. I’m a lifelong Ghost Head. Like so many of us, I’ve been through the decades-long rollercoaster of hope and disappointment that has come with the …

I did it. I survived Frightfest Glasgow (opens in new tab). Here’s my definitive list of the best horror on offer and their associated heartrate on my trusty Fitbit. Baskin (2015) I can say one thing for certain. There is nothing like Baskin. The journey of five Turkish police officers …

If the spoiler you’re going to reveal is that there’s nothing to spoil, is a spoiler tag truly required? With this pop culture ontology in mind, and the hornet-buzz of anticipation that someone on the internet will get upset no matter what I type here, let’s begin. Spoilers. Right, so …

Long, long ago, back in the before times, we rolled our multiplayer action at home splitscreen style. We’d play Goldeneye 007, four tiny guns and blocky hands each in their own quadrant, on a fuzzy CRT television and we would love it. Part of the fun of splitscreen shooters back …

Silent Hill has Pyramid Head. Outlast has the perpetually smiling Chris Walker, as well as an asylum’s worth of other nasty characters. SOMA has whatever the hell these are (opens in new tab). Layers of Fear (opens in new tab) has stacks of books and apples. Not exactly what springs …

Movies are pretty much my life, which is why I wait with bated breath each year for the Oscars. Oh, wait, no I don’t. While the rest of the world might see the Academy Awards as the height of cinematic praise, I prefer to ignore these predictable and effectively irrelevant …

Stephen King has scared the heebie-jeebies out of millions of readers for over 40 years and is still going strong. However, the Master of Horror took a detour into SF territory with 11.22.63. The novel finds time traveller Jake Epping on a mission to stop Lee Harvey Oswald from assassinating …

A whole new (virtual) world VR is coming to invade living rooms this year with the Oculus Rift, PlayStation VR, and HTC Vive just on the horizon, and each new headset has a full library of games coming at launch. The Oculus Rift headsets are going out to consumer’s homes …