First red-band trailer for V/H/S/2: watch now
The first trailer for horror anthology follow-up V/H/S/2 has made its way online, and fans of the first film won’t be disappointed with the amount of blood, nudity and general mayhem contained in this first few minutes of footage…
Horror anthology V/H/S getting a limited edition VHS release
V/H/S, the horror anthology that brought the scares at FrightFest 2012, is getting an extremely limited VHS release…
Sam Ashurst’s House Of Horror: Killer bees, evil twins and psycho Santas
VHS Corner
Looks Like: A skeleton that’s been dipped in toxic waste uses half-finished masks to make people think he’s crying. For some reason.
Actually Is: A love letter to b-movies, Popcorn sees a gang of film students stage a horror movie all-nighter at a run-down local cinema to raise funds for their teacher.
But when a real killer shows up, the kids have to try to survive the night - against a foe who wears the faces of his victims as masks.
Complete with fake film homages and practical effects in-jokes, Popcorn is a movie geek’s dream film, fun from start to finish.
It doesn’t feature a glowing green skeleton wearing a mask, though. Not at any point.
It does, however, feature a lot of reggae. A lot.
Imaginary Dialogue: “Did that radioactive skeleton really think we were going to buy his dumb disguise? For one thing, we could still see the top of his skull. For another, we could see his boney hands holding up the mask. This is awesome!”
Sam Ashurst’s House Of Horror
Murderers, Monsters And Mutant Chickens
Plus! Interview with VHS legend Graham Humphreys, who provided the unbelievable artwork above.
20 Awesome Obscure Movies
19. The Flight Of Dragons (1982)
The Plot: When the realm of magic is threatened by the realm of logic, a great wizard summons an intellectual from the world of man, to try and unite spells and science.
But it’s far more exciting than that sounds – with powerful dragons, mystical knights, grotesque monsters and demonic warlocks all joining the battle for supremacy.
Basically, it’s what would happen if you Sellotaped some pages from The New Scientist into The Lord Of The Rings.
Why So Obscure: In this epic battle between magic and science, religion doesn’t get a look in.
So perhaps all the gods (Jesus, Zeus, the other lot) clubbed together to conspire against Dragons ever being released on DVD in the UK.
It’s literally the only explanation that makes sense.
How Awesome: Flight was released direct to VHS in 1982, but it gained such a following that it was unleashed cinematically in 1986.
And rightly so - there’s something really special about Flight Of Dragons. The voice-acting manages to be both boomingly epic at times, and so naturalistic at others that line delivery alone will bring you to the brink of tears.
Featuring James Earl Jones as the - imagine this - villain, and John Ritter as a Harry-Potter-with-a-chemistry-degree hero, the cast is peppered with pedigree.
And the - comparatively - complex plot is constantly commanding, with our likeable leads facing high stakes and great tragedy on their journey to an extremely satisfying climax.
There is a R1 DVD (we had to wait until 2009 for that one) so if you’ve got a multi-region player and (especially) if you’ve got a young family, these Dragons deserve to be rescued from extinction.
Big Box Club 2: Bulletproof in pictures…
Bulletproof (1988)
The End.
That’s for another Big Box Club.
Join Sam, Dan and Ben for another edition in a couple of weeks time…
Big Box Club 2: Eye Of The Tiger in pictures…
Eye Of The Tiger (1986)
The End.
Next up is Bulletproof (1988)
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