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The Science Fiction, Horror and Fantasy Film Review is an attempt to provide an exhaustive online resource and an intelligent and well-reasoned review guide to fantastic cinema. It is hoped that the site will provide visitors with informed and well-reasoned criticism, as well as direct people toward less well-known genre material.

Getting back to our double feature for the day focused on Possession and Exorcism films. It's a genre that celebrated it...
23/01/2025

Getting back to our double feature for the day focused on Possession and Exorcism films. It's a genre that celebrated its fiftieth birthday a couple of years ago but has done little to move out of cliches of Catholic priests chanting rites and the possessee in cracked face taunting insults and levitating furniture. That said, here is one entry that does shake the cliches up.

Accidental Exorcist (2016). A low-budget but nevertheless at times quite funny version of an exorcism film. Moreover, one that definitely throws out all the tired clichés of the genre and does something quite different with it.

A low-budget but nevertheless at times quite funny version of an exorcism film, one that throws out all the tired clichés of the genre

Today I am devoting a double feature to Possession and Exorcism movies, a genre that grew out of the success of The Exor...
23/01/2025

Today I am devoting a double feature to Possession and Exorcism movies, a genre that grew out of the success of The Exorcist and one that shows no sign of ending any time soon, even though it has done little to change the same essential cliches since the 1970s. The first of these goes right back to the early days of the original Possession and Exorcism fad.

Good Against Evil (1977). From the great and underrated Paul Wendkos, a 1970s tv movie that taps the deviltry movie fads of the day and becomes a blatant copy of The Exorcist, albeit cleaned up for tv sensibilities



From the great and underrated Paul Wendkos, a 1970s tv movie that taps the deviltry movie fads of the day and becomes a blatant copy of The Exorcist

A 1930s screwball comedy about the invention of a ray that can petrify people that is then used to bring statues of Gree...
22/01/2025

A 1930s screwball comedy about the invention of a ray that can petrify people that is then used to bring statues of Greek gods to life with madcap results. Adapted from a novel by Thorne Smith, the comedy writer best known for one of the greatest of all screwball comedies Topper



A 1930s screwball comedy about the invention of a ray that can petrify people that is then used to bring statues of Greek gods to life

An early Takashi Miike film where a teenage girl is killed and her personality uploaded to the internet, having been con...
21/01/2025

An early Takashi Miike film where a teenage girl is killed and her personality uploaded to the internet, having been conveniently backed up by her father on 3 cd roms!



An early Takashi Miike film where a teenage girl is killed and her personality uploaded to the internet

Animated adaption of the comic-book about a Native American warrior stranded in a prehistoric lost world, this comes wit...
20/01/2025

Animated adaption of the comic-book about a Native American warrior stranded in a prehistoric lost world, this comes with a violence and savagery that readily overturns any expectation that it is going to be another kiddie film



Animated adaption of the comic-book about a Native American warrior stranded in a prehistoric lost world

Adaptation of a classic Aleksei Tolstoy story set in 18th Century Eastern Europe as a family awaits the return of the pa...
19/01/2025

Adaptation of a classic Aleksei Tolstoy story set in 18th Century Eastern Europe as a family awaits the return of the patriarch who has been turned into a vampire, this gains some incredibly eerie and uncanny effect



Adaptation of a classic Aleksei Tolstoy story set in Eastern Europe as a family awaits the return of the patriarch who has been turned into a vampire

Earth Abides is a classic novel that fairly much defined the theme of survival in the aftermath of the collapse of civil...
18/01/2025

Earth Abides is a classic novel that fairly much defined the theme of survival in the aftermath of the collapse of civilisation. Stephen King cites it as a major influence on The Stand. This is a TV mini-series adaptation of the book



TV mini-series adaptation of a classic novel that fairly much defined the theme of survival in the aftermath of the collapse of civilisation

George A. Romero, the creator of the modern zombie film with Night of the Living Dead, was hired to make the very first ...
17/01/2025

George A. Romero, the creator of the modern zombie film with Night of the Living Dead, was hired to make the very first Resident Evil film. He was then abruptly fired and we ended up with popular Resident Evil films we did. Rumours of Romero's plans for Resident Evil are legendary. This is a documentary that sets out to get to the bottom of what happened.



A documentary about George Romero’s legendary proposed but never made plans for a Resident Evil film

In the double feature today, I am covering Underground Horrors. The underground is a unique venue within genre cinema, b...
16/01/2025

In the double feature today, I am covering Underground Horrors. The underground is a unique venue within genre cinema, brimming with lost worlds, prehistoric life and all manner of creatures.

Arctic Hollow (2024). A film about the Symmes Hole and the Hollow Earth - the scientifically discredited and geologically preposterous notion that there the centre of the Earth is hollow and has another world there. This is a low-budget film about a venture into the Hollow Earth in search of a missing person and encounters with creatures there.



A low-budget film about a venture into the Hollow Earth in search of a missing person and encounters with creatures there

Today I am devoting a double feature to Underground Horrors. In genre cinema, the underground has always been an exotic ...
16/01/2025

Today I am devoting a double feature to Underground Horrors. In genre cinema, the underground has always been an exotic realm filled with lost worlds and cities, prehistoric life and even the geologically absurd notion of a Hollow Earth. There's been a whole other body of works about people encountering troglodytes and monsters in the underground. We look at a couple of these.

The Strangeness (1985). This was one of the first on the subject of people venturing underground and encountering cave monsters - in this case a Lovecraftian entity. It was also one of the first women-directed horror films



One of the first women-directed horror films. Also one of the first on the subject of people venturing underground and encountering cave monsters

One of a host of low-budget spy/action film imitating the success of the Bond films. This is one of the most entertainin...
15/01/2025

One of a host of low-budget spy/action film imitating the success of the Bond films. This is one of the most entertainingly bizarre, with a mix including a cryogenically frozen Hi**er and the hero going into action accompanied by a baboon



A low-budget spy/action film with entertainingly bizarre elements including a cryogenically frozen Hi**er and the hero going into action accompanied by a baboon

Time to revisit the irresistibly guilty pleasures of the Mexican wrestling superhero film. Another of the 52 films featu...
14/01/2025

Time to revisit the irresistibly guilty pleasures of the Mexican wrestling superhero film. Another of the 52 films featuring El Santo, the Mexican masked wrestler who always hid his face behind a silver mask. Here Santo is pitted against a mad scientist operating an international artworks theft scheme



Another of the films featuring Santo, the Mexican masked wrestler superhero, who here is pitted against a mad scientist operating an artworks theft operation

From Makoto Shinkai who made Your Name. and Suzume, a lovely anime about a girl who can control the weather
13/01/2025

From Makoto Shinkai who made Your Name. and Suzume, a lovely anime about a girl who can control the weather



From Makoto Shinkai who made Your Name., Weathering With You is a lovely anime about a girl who can control the weather

Set in a world where society has collapsed due to an unspecified pandemic, this features Ashley Judd and daughters livin...
12/01/2025

Set in a world where society has collapsed due to an unspecified pandemic, this features Ashley Judd and daughters living in seclusion on their own suddenly forced to welcome a stranger into their house



Set in a post-pandemic future, this features Ashley Judd and daughters living on their own suddenly forced to welcome a stranger into their house

Okay, I have to confess my bias here – I am just not a fan of big Broadway musicals. This is the first half of a film ad...
11/01/2025

Okay, I have to confess my bias here – I am just not a fan of big Broadway musicals. This is the first half of a film adaptation of the hit Broadway musical that is a prequel to The Wizard of Oz, showing The Wicked Witch’s origin story



The first half of a two-part adaptation of the hit Broadway musical that is a prequel to The Wizard of Oz, showing The Wicked Witch’s origin story

I’m convinced Amy Adams is the finest actress of the 2020s. This comes with the irresistible appeal of a premise where f...
10/01/2025

I’m convinced Amy Adams is the finest actress of the 2020s. This comes with the irresistible appeal of a premise where frustrated mother Amy Adams finds herself turning into a dog

This comes with the irresistible appeal of a premise where frustrated mother Amy Adams finds herself turning into a dog

So on today's double feature, we are looking at Amityville Horrors - the substantial industry of films (some 40 odd) tha...
09/01/2025

So on today's double feature, we are looking at Amityville Horrors - the substantial industry of films (some 40 odd) that lay claim to be based on the hoax that was the book and film The Amityville Horror.

Amityville Karen (2022). By the 2020s, the Amityville copycats are no longer taking themselves seriously as witness titles like Amityville Bigfoot, Amityville Frankenstein, even Amityville Vi****or.

The term Karen has come to mean an entitled woman who complains a great deal. This is a horror comedy about one such possessed Karen



The term Karen has come to mean an entitled woman who complains a great deal. This is a horror comedy about one such possessed Karen

Today I am devoting a double feature to Amityville Horrors. Despite later being proven to be a hoax, The Amityville Horr...
09/01/2025

Today I am devoting a double feature to Amityville Horrors. Despite later being proven to be a hoax, The Amityville Horror book and then film has been enormously successful. There has been a mountain of sequels, several legitimate but mostly films that claim the Amityville name and have little to mostly no connection to the original.

Let's start with Amityville Playhouse (2015). One out of some 30 odd films using the Amityville name, this concerns a haunted theatre in the town



One out of some 30 odd films using the Amityville name, this concerns a haunted theatre in the town

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