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Cronos
(Cronos)

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Post date May 15 2026
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(Cronos)
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Director – Guillermo del Toro – 1992 – Mexico – Cert. 18 – 92m ****1/2 An antique shop owner is transformed by a strange, hand-sized device he finds in a small statuette – back out in a 4K restoration in UK cinemas on Friday, May 15th alongside a Guillermo del Toro season at BFI Southbank […]

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Resurrection
(Kuangye Shidai,
狂野时代,
lit. Wild Times)

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Post date March 13 2026
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(Kuangye Shidai,
狂野时代,
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Director – Bi Gan – 2025 – China – Cert. 15 – 160m **** An authority figure pursues a Deliriant – a man who escapes the authorities and his own social responsibilities by dreaming – through a period of a hundred years – out in UK cinemas on Friday, March 13th This opens with a long series of intertitles […]

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Sister Midnight

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Post date March 13 2025
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Director – Karan Kandhari – 2024 – UK, Sweden, India – Cert. 15 – 110m ***1/2 A young woman in an arranged marriage discovers herself to be a creature of the night… and one of the undead – genre-bender is out on UK digital from Wednesday, June 18th A young woman travels cross-country by train, […]

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Nosferatu
(2024)

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Post date December 30 2024
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Director – Robert Eggers – 2024 – US – Cert. 15 – 132m ***** Unaware a woman has unwittingly summoned Count Orloc, her husband is sent to the latter’s castle in Transylvania – out in UK cinemas on Wednesday, January 1st 2025 The German expressionist silent film Nosferatu (F.W. Murnau, 1922) has been described as […]

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Blood
The Last Vampire
(2000)

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Post date December 12 2024
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The Last Vampire
(2000)

Director – Hiroyuki Kitakubo – 2000 – Japan – Cert. 15 – 48m **** Part English, Part Japanese with English Subtitles, Widescreen (1.85) REG 2 DVD / PAL VHS review from Starburst (UK Edition), 2001. The animation weighs in at a mere 46 minutes on home video formats, although on both you also get an […]

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Fishgirl
(Alucina)

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Post date November 26 2024
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Fishgirl - Critics' Picks Special Mention

Director – Javier Cutrona – 2024 – Ecuador – 105m ** Enter the surreal world of a young woman beset by bizarre visions who believes herself followed and protected by a giant fish – premieres in the Critics’ Picks Competition of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival Fairly early on, in a tender, conversational, […]

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Vampire
Vs
Vampire
(Yi Mei Dao Ren,
一眉道人)

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Post date May 31 2023
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Vs
Vampire
(Yi Mei Dao Ren,
一眉道人)
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Director – Lam Ching-ying – 1989 – Hong Kong – Cert. 15 – 87m ***1/2 A Taoist priest must defeat various supernatural forces including a Western-style vampire occupying a coffin in an old church – out on Blu-ray in the UK on Monday, May 22nd as part of Eureka! Video’s Hopping Mad: The Mr. Vampire […]

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Renfield

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Post date April 14 2023
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Director – Chris McKay – 2023 – US – Cert. 15 – 93m ** Guided by American self-help industry ideas of escaping toxic relationships with narcissists, Dracula‘s servant Renfield wants out of his relationship with his master – out in UK cinemas on Friday, April 14th Renfield (Nicholas Hoult) has had enough of working for […]

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Orchestrator
Of Storms:
The Fantastique World
Of Jean Rollin

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Post date March 4 2023
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Of Storms:
The Fantastique World
Of Jean Rollin
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Directors – Dima Ballin, Kat Ellinger – 2022 – UK – 112m *** The story of one of Europe’s most idiosyncratic and overlooked directors – on the Arrow Video Channel from Tuesday, February 14th In the early 1960s when the French New Wave was taking off, the idea was to go out and make movies […]

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The Painted Bird
(Nabarvené ptáče)

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Post date September 11 2020
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(Nabarvené ptáče)

Director – Václav Marhoul – 2019 – Czech Republic – Cert. 18 – 169m ****1/2 An orphan boy meets a series of adults, a few kind but most cruel, travelling around Eastern Europe during World War Two – in cinemas and online at Amazon, BFI Player, Curzon Home Cinema, IFI@HOME, Rio Cinema Online and Vimeo […]