Attack from Planet B

John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017, USA)

13th February 2017Ren Zelen Leave a Comment

John Wick: Chapter 2 is a ride into hell, or, a hell of a ride – either way it’s going to drag you along with it, maybe gasping, maybe kicking and screaming, but either way, it’s an adrenalin rush. The John Wick movies are all about the momentum of action, with Wick moving so precisely, so speedily and yet so gracefully that it all becomes a mesmerising ballet of Grand Guignol.

A pre-credits action set-piece starts the movie as it means to go on, and cripes, if it isn’t an absolute corker!

“John Wick, you’re not very good at retiring.”

Fright-Rags Gives MY BLOODY VALENTINE Fans a Gift from the Heart

9th February 2017Ken Wynne Leave a Comment

Remember what happened as the 14th draws near! Fright-Rags has a gift from the heart for fans of George Mihalka’s 1981 Canadian slasher My Bloody Valentine: The Ballad of Harry Warden Collection. Valentine’s Day will never be the same again…

“Valentine’s Day will never be the same again…

Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze (1975, USA)

7th February 2017A.J. Hakari Leave a Comment

With Richard Donner’s Superman still a few years off from transforming comic cinema into a legit and lucrative genre, letting the audience in on the gag and addressing its protagonist’s more antiquated elements would have been a wise move. But outside of pausing every so often to superimpose a gleam across Ron Ely’s peepers or randomly announce a new, heretofore unknown talent of Doc’s, Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze does little to deconstruct its parent property or its contemporaries in the world of crime-fighting fiction.

“Have no fear! Doc Savage is here!”

Dance With the Dead – B-Sides: Volume 1 (2017)

6th February 2017Ken Wynne Leave a Comment

If you don’t know who Dance With the Dead are, I suggest you wake yourself up now. The musical duo from Orange County, California have been raising the dead since 2013, with the release of their debut album, Out of Body. Since then their unique blend of dark synthwave and thrash metal has been tearing up dance floors/graveyards worldwide.

“They only come out at night!”

Train to Busan (2016, South Korea)

5th February 2017Ren Zelen Leave a Comment

I usually have a bit of a problem with zombie movies – I find them dull. Yes, I know zombie fans will be throwing their Walking Dead box sets at my head (and those are some hefty tomes) but I find that, although they may be a popular horror monster, zombies are forced to rely heavily on the cheap, gross-out factor in order to distract from the fact that they have scanty horror mileage, no rich mythos to draw on and offer little scope for variation, tension or development. I am however, an Asian horror enthusiast.

“Life-or-death survival begins.”

5 Things to Consider Before You Buy a Gaming Chair

5th February 2017Neal Bricker Leave a Comment

If you’re the king of your castle, surely you need a throne worthy of your status, right? We might spend our days slaving at a 9-5 job, but when we get home and settle in for a night of “pwning noobs on the interwebz” all of that can be forgotten.

“GAME OVER. Thank you for playing.”

Rings (2017, USA)

4th February 2017Ren Zelen Leave a Comment

In Rings we have the [second] long anticipated sequel to The Ring, the English language remake of the hugely successful Japanese horror Ringu. We also have a kind of Samara origin story, but this storyline seems to be less a labour of love, and instead, rather laboured.

Ringu, the celebrated Japanese horror movie that started it all, was released in 1998. We should remember that in the dark ages of the nineties, VHS tapes and creepy death-threat calls through landlines were not as yet, a form of ancient technology.

“First you watch it. Then you die.”

COMET February TV Guide + Giveaway

4th February 2017Ken Wynne 1 Comment

Comet, the newest and obviously coolest Sci-Fi TV network, is heading to the skies this month; battling the cosmos with Flash Gordon, before teaming up with Attack from Planet B to play a game of Rollerball with LL Cool J and give away yet more science fiction themed swag.

Competition ends Thursday 9th February 2017

Straight to Hell (1987, UK)

2nd February 2017John McGovern Leave a Comment

It’s fair to say that Straight to Hell isn’t widely considered to be one of director Alex Cox’s best films. Some people may even consider it to be his worst – especially as Repo Man seems to retain an unfathomable level of popularity. However, whilst its creation, cast, setting and gonzo punk style, make it an undeniable curiosity, it is its adaptation and reclamation of popular genre style, that may make Straight to Hell Cox’s most notably cine-literate film.

“A story of blood, money, guns, coffee, and sexual tension.”

Split (2016, USA)

1st February 2017Ren Zelen Leave a Comment

Few directors have experienced quite as public a fall from grace as M. Night Shyamalan. After his hugely popular debut The Sixth Sense, the director’s subsequent features appeared to be a series of close misses or shots that veered way off target.

I can’t say I have always wholeheartedly embraced his movies, but I have found that Mr. Shyamalan’s singular imagination usually comes up with an interesting and unusual premise.

“Kevin has 23 distinct personalities. The 24th is about to be unleashed.”

The White King (2016, UK / Hungary)

30th January 2017Ren Zelen Leave a Comment

In The White King, directors Alex Helfrecht and Jorg Tittel cleverly introduce the viewer to the world in which their tale is set by means of a beautiful animated exposition during the beginning credits. We then enter the film with some background knowledge of what we are dealing with – a harsh, rural, dystopian society, created by a mythical ‘hero’…

The White King is adapted from a series of short stories by the Romanian novelist György Dragomán.

“We make sacrifices today, for a greater tomorrow.”

Fright-Rags’ THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE Video Series + Alfred Hitchcock Collection

25th January 2017Ken Wynne Leave a Comment

Fright-Rags are tapping into that collective nostalgia with the first in a planned series of box sets paying homage to VHS; launching with one film that defined the home video era: Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

Fright-Rags are also proud to present the Alfred Hitchcock collection of four new t-shirts.

“Who will survive and what will be left of them?”