Category: Film

While his science fiction films Cube and Splice contained many elements of horror, this is director Vincenzo Natali’s first overt step into that genre, though like his previous

Unlike the wellspring from which it has drawn upon for decades, the literature of ideas, too often science fiction cinema has come to be defined by explosions. This

Hauntings, so we are told, follow patterns, spirits repeating in death the routines of their former life. So it would seem with the inexplicably successful Paranormal Activity series

For over seventy five years, The Hobbit has been one of the most beloved books of children’s literature, a quest across a fantastical land populated by trolls, goblins,

When a big film arrives, it’s impossible to miss it: billboards, newspaper adverts, television spots, promotional tie-ins, marketing campaigns which guarantee a huge opening weekend while swallowing as

With the publication of Carrie in the spring of 1974, debut novelist Stephen King made horror commonplace, suburban, modern and real. Carrie White was unusual, both protagonist and

The film industry is constantly in change – the introduction of sound, then colour, cinemascope, 3D, digital, each of which has seen new innovators and pioneers. As with

While the fantastical has become the dominant form of genre entertainment for children, for adults science fiction and horror have remained the prevailing forms. Despite the superficial similarities

The dark world. With a subtitle like that, a scholarly dissertation may begin by looking at the different connotations of the word dark, and how the meanings may

Originating as a short story in 1977 and expanded to a novel in 1985, Ender’s Game went on to win the both the Hugo and Nebula awards for