Plunged into gritty action from the outset of the film, viewers of J.J. Abrams’ new release, Overlord, are immediately presented with a war-torn panorama of the largest seaborne invasion in history. The action opens with an introduction to the American paratroopers whose journey we follow as they parachute beyond enemy lines in order to destroy […]
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The Stranger Things
The new season of Stranger Things hit our screens this year and we’re still mad for it, so we’re unlocking the curiosity door again and taking a trip through the most weird, wonderful, and vaguely disturbing scientific stories from the past year. Skull cults usually form for one of two reasons … Young Blood There’s […]
Review: The Walking Dead
When you think you know The Walking Dead (TWD), when you start to become settled within its semi-predictable violent cycles, like a zombie dog it turns round and chews your arm off. A hell hound is a nice image for our new psychopathic villain ‘Negan’ revealed at the end of season 6 who plays […]
Mythbusters: Zombies, Vampires, and Werewolves.
As we enter the Halloween period, let us cast our minds towards one of the quintessential features of this frightful time of festivities: the monsters. In particular, three of the most well-known monsters: zombies, werewolves, and vampires. Here are their origins, and some possible reasons for them to have come into existence. Zombies “Zombies” are […]
Zombies: Dead on their feet?
Whether they’re portrayed as slow remnants of life or quick and agile mutants, zombies have dominated the horror genre. From George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead to more recent films and TV series such as Marc Forster’s World War Z and The Walking Dead, the zombie has been used over and over for their […]