Tales Of The Tape
As Momentum prepares for the launch of horror anthology V/H/S, on all formats, including VHS, The Raygun looks at its limited edition tape release, look at other VHS memorabilia, its launch for the film and, talking to collectors, the irresistible lure of the VHS… The advent of DVD should, by all rights, have signalled the [...]
Click here for more >Red Lights Spells Danger
Remember when Halloween meant John Carpenter, The Exorcist (the film was given a theatrical release on that day in 1998, ahead of its first post-Video Recordings Act home entertainment release), all-nighters at London’s Scala and other venues? Recent years has seen a boom in the Halloween business, but much of it has been at the [...]
Click here for more >(Out)post Of The Day
Flippant as it may sound, Nazis have made something of a comeback recently. But this is not real-life fascists or Hitler worshipping far right nutters in eastern Europe and beyond we’re talking about here, rather a direct to video craze that has seen Nazis move from their usual terrain – war movies –into other areas. [...]
Click here for more >Do You Remember The First Time Part III
And there’s more, to mirror the words of the late, great Frank Carson… We’ve been asking the trade for their first scary film experiences to tie in with the release of Momentum’s The Woman In Black, remembering, after all, that the 12 certificate film will be, for many pre- and early teens, the first film [...]
Click here for more >Do You Remember The First Time? Part II
It’s the kind of question that’s set a lot of people thinking – what was your first scary film experience? Momentum is using it as one of the hooks for its PR campaign for the June release of the year’s most successful horror film (and the most successful British horror flick ever) The Woman In Black. We’ve [...]
Click here for more >Do You Remember The First Time?
What was your first scary film experience? It’s a teasing question, the kind that would provoke lively office or, more pertinently these days, office debate. Given its 12 certificate – one element that helped it towards its record-breaking £21 million plus haul at UK cinemas – Momentum’s The Woman In Black will, for many teenagers, [...]
Click here for more >The Only Way Is… Horrible
The FrightFest seal of approval is, as we’ve oft noted before, all important for any horror film. Last year’s London Film 4 FrightFest event saw Anchor Bay screening a record number of films at the event, using the event as a launchpad for a strong slate of shockers. The last of the FrightFest Five, as [...]
Click here for more >Underground, Overground
Any regular readers of The Raygun will know that we’re big fans of lenticular sleeves. Not only do we like the things themselves – both as tactile objects and also because of the sheer childlike excitement we still get while waving them around (“Look! The picture’s changing!) – but we can also see what, when [...]
Click here for more >Back To The Grindhouse
The film charting the history of the video nasty, Video Nasties: The Definitive Guide, is one of the finest homegrown documentaries of recent years; its creators, Marc Morris and Jake West, are as knowledgeable as anyone in or around our business as to the history of the exploitation film. While Video Nasties: The Definitive Guide [...]
Click here for more >The Week In Screenings: FrightFest All-Nighter Special
We’ve already had our correspondent Alex Kidd’s regular report of screenings and films he’s seen, but here’s his full report of the annual Film4 FrightFest Halloween all-nighter, including his thoughts on the year’s most controversial film, The Human Centipede 2… If it’s Halloween then it must be time for the FrightFest All-Nighter, that regular test [...]
Click here for more >A Franchise With Legs
After having seen both his Human Centipede outings, The First Sequence and the most recent entrant into what is fast becoming one of the most notorious horror franchises of recent years, The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence), you’d be forgiven for feeling a bit nervous when meeting their director and creator Tom Six. And it [...]
Click here for more >Taking Insidious Even Further
It’s the highest-earning horror film of 2011 at cinemas, has performed way beyond expectations and now is making its way to home entertainment. Insidious boasted incredible word of mouth, strong marketing that played up the audience response and some great imagery for the campaign. With the way effectively paved for Momentum’s DVD and Blu-ray release [...]
Click here for more >The Fright Stuff
It’s the Bank Holiday August weekend, the sun may be shining, Leicester Square and its environs will be packed full of tourists and holidaymakers, and in and around London there’ll be outdoor music events such as Reading and the world’s largest street party, Notting Hill Carnival, and all its surrounding brouhaha. But in one part [...]
Click here for more >The A To W Of Wes Craven
He’s often described as a master of horror and now, after a five-year hiatus, Wes Craven is returning to the fray with a flurry of activity, including a new addition to the Scream franchise at cinemas and, ahead of that, Momentum’s home entertainment release of his first outing as both writer and director for almost [...]
Click here for more >Hobo Tramples The Competition
We’ve known former HMV staffer Alex Kidd for years, seeing him at almost every screening we’ve been done, there’s nothing he doesn’t know about the weird and wonderful (as well as mainstream too). So when he said he was going to Glasgow for its FrightFest event, we got him to pen a few words for [...]
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