Genre fans, you’re in for a treat: Bristol’s largest repertory genre film festival returns to the city next month. More below:
The Forbidden Worlds Film Festival is back in Bristol for its third consecutive year, with a line up celebrating director Peter Hyams and cinema’s deadliest women.
Running from 16th-19th May in the Bristol Aquarium Cinema, Forbidden Worlds screens repertory fantasy, action, science-fiction and horror films from around the world while celebrating the people that made them.
Check out the festival trailer below:
Should you find yourself Bristol-bound in the near future, the full schedule is available on the festival’s website and includes (but is by no means limited to) screenings of Speed, Stargate and Timecop. If that doesn’t sound enticing, I’m afraid you might have stumbled onto the wrong website.
What’s more, there’s an extra female-focused theme to some of the selections this year, with screenings of Attack Of The 50 Foot Woman (1958), Blue Steel (1990), Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion (1972), The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996), Foxy Brown (1974), and a brand-new 4K restoration of Luc Besson’s Nikita (1990).
Melissa Barrerra and Tommy Dewey find love in writer-director Caroline Lindy’s monster romance. Here’s our review of Your Monster.
Young actor Laura (Melissa Barrera) isn’t doing too well. Not only has she just had cancer-related surgery, forcing her to move into her childhood home that’s been vacated by her mother, she’s also been dumped by her [...]
Director Leigh Whannell follows The Invisible Man with a much more generic, traditional creature feature that is nevertheless still fun. Here’s our Wolf Man review.
Big, expensive studio horror has endured a pretty well deserved poor reputation over across the last decade or two. Big budgets don’t always guarantee good films, and horror seems to particularly [...]
With a slew of excellent, critically acclaimed horror films in 2024, could awards bodies finally give them more consideration? A few thoughts.
Update: These are the kinds of updates we love to write. On 5th January, something remarkable happened. Demi Moore won the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Musical Or Comedy for her performance in [...]
A Different Man, The Substance, Wolf Man… Body horror films have seen a sudden surge in Hollywood. We take a look at why that might be.
The human body has long been violated, penetrated and torn apart on the silver screen. Horror has always thrived on gore and the multiple ways you can make people suffer, [...]
As horror films get gorier and more inventive with how the human body can be slashed, hacked and destroyed, we ask the question: what makes for a great horror movie kill?
Horror is having a bit of a moment. Smile 2 and Terrifier 3 are pulling audiences into cinemas and The Substance has a lot of [...]
James McAvoy claims that his pivotal role in M Night Shyamalan's Split was originally to be played by Joaquin Phoenix, but he allegedly quit two weeks...
To provide the best experiences, we and our partners use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. Consenting to these technologies will allow us and our partners to process personal data such as browsing behavior or unique IDs on this site and show (non-) personalized ads. Not consenting or withdrawing consent, may adversely affect certain features and functions.
Click below to consent to the above or make granular choices. Your choices will be applied to this site only. You can change your settings at any time, including withdrawing your consent, by using the toggles on the Cookie Policy, or by clicking on the manage consent button at the bottom of the screen.
Functional
Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes.The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
To provide the best experiences, we use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behaviour or unique IDs on this site. Not consenting or withdrawing consent, may adversely affect certain features and functions.
Functional
Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes.The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
