Of all the filmmakers working in Hollywood today, Guillermo del Toro is one of the most fervently followed. The cult of interest that springs up around any project he’s attached to is well earned: smaller scale Spanish language classics (Cronos, Pan’s Labyrinth) are offset against mega-budget Hollywood blockbusters (Hellboy, Pacific Rim) in his back catalogue, … >
Doctor Who star Karen Gillan has made a new horror short this Halloween as part of the Fun Size Horror collective. Gillan has written, directed and also stars in Conventional, a 9-minute film which sees a horror actress deals with her fall from stardom. Conventional will be shown as part of the Fun Size Horror: … >
Released in time for Halloween, Arrow Video is pleased to announce the special edition box set, Edgar Allan Poe’s Black Cats: Two Adaptations by Sergio Martino & Lucio Fulci, featuring stunning new 2K transfers of two gothic, gory and totally original adaptations of Poe’s famous yarn The Black Cat from directors Sergio Martino and Lucio … >
Based on Thomas Harris’ best-selling books comes the new season of Hannibal from Bryan Fuller (Heroes). To celebrate the release of Season 3 on DVD and Blu-ray on Monday 19 October, we’ve got Blu-rays to give away to two of our Twitter followers! For a chance to win, just follow @CultBoxTV on Twitter and retweet … >
The Walking Dead isn’t messing around this season, following up last week’s strong, visually inventive premiere with a thoroughly violent siege thriller. ‘JSS’, unusually, began with a quiet first act that doesn’t seem to be building too much. There’s the sympathetic, if disposable prologue, which fleshes out Enid, an ancillary character at best, and a … >
Coming off the back of a tepid opening season for spin-off Fear the Walking Dead, the original show’s Season 6 opener was an invigorating blast of large-scale spectacle and genuine substance. The most intriguing addition to this premiere was the stylistic tic of a parallel structure that flipped between present day scenes in colour and … >
The Returned – that show you were persuading everyone to ‘never mind the subtitles and give a go’ back in the summer of 2013 – has finally clambered out for its long-awaited second season. Full marks if you can remember what happened in the first season’s finale. Even after being eyes-deep in the first run, … >
The second season of French supernatural drama The Returned begins in the UK later this month and a new trailer has been released. Eight new episodes will start airing at 9pm on Friday 16 October on More4 with ‘L’enfant’. > Buy Season 1 on DVD on Amazon. Watch the Season 2 trailer… The official synopsis … >
Get ready to do the time warp again as The Rocky Horror Picture Show 40th Anniversary comes home on Blu-ray on Monday 5 October from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment. > Buy the Blu-ray on Amazon. To celebrate the release, we’ve got a copy of the Blu-ray and a Rocky Horror party pack to give away … >
The Walking Dead returns with a critically acclaimed fifth season, delivering more action and suspense than ever before. To celebrate the release of Season 5 on Blu-ray™ and DVD on Monday 28 September, courtesy of Entertainment One, we’ve got Blu-ray sets to give away to 4 of our Twitter followers! For a chance to win, … >