STARBURST MAGAZINE

It's Starburst Magazine day! In our Spring issue, I take a look at the fantastic, action-packed #anime #BloodTheLastVampire, while over in the Book Wormwhole, I break down Amin Maalouf's gender dystopia "First Century After Beatrice". #scifi #books #film #fantasy #horror #tv

Happy NEW STARBURST DAY to all those who celebrate! starburstmagazine.store/products/sta...

On sale from February 27, this month’s @starburst.bsky.social contains my visit to the set of Brad Anderson’s WORLDBREAKER and my interview with the lovely Luke Evans. Reader, I swooned.

SCREAM 7 Coming 30 years after the first movie, and with original writer Kevin Williamson directing, Scream 7 should have been a full-circle moment.

Ghostface is back, and so is Sidney Prescott, in Scream 7.

But is this enough for another killer time at the movies? Our reviewer isn't convinced...

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The new issue of #STARBURSTMAGAZINE is in shops from February 27th, and can be ordered now through our official store! This is the way: starburstmagazine.store/products/sta...

STARBURST’S Adelaide Fringe Picks 2026 - STARBURST Magazine The Adelaide Fringe is the world’s second largest fringe festival, and has been wowing audiences since 1960. This year’s fringe features well over a thousand shows many of which would delight STARBURS...

Our top five picks of things to see at 2026's Adelaide Fringe can be found here:

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Kevin and Matthew McManus • REDUX REDUX - STARBURST Magazine Twin brothers Kevin and Matthew McManus have been making movies together “since fifth grade, when we were 11 or 12”. Their latest vehicle, Redux Redux — a clever and inventive multiverse-hopping tale ...

I had a great time chatting with Kevin and Matthew McManus about their impressive new multiverse movie Redux Redux for @starburst.bsky.social

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A deadly delivery from @arrowvideo.bsky.social to celebrate the 4K UHD release of Snakes on a Plane! Buy it now: www.arrowfilms.com/p/snakes-on-...

SEND HELP review Sam Raimi returns at his most fierce with Send Help, a survival thriller starring Rachel McAdams and Dylan O'Brien.

"To call it a return to form would suggest that Raimi ever lost it, but Send Help is the director at his most fierce."

Here's our review of Sam Raimi's survival thriller, starring Rachel McAdams and Dylan O'Brien:

www.starburstmagazine.com/reviews/send...

SCRATCH MOSS - STARBURST Magazine Scratch Moss, David Barnett's new folk horror novel, is a spooky, sprawling history of a Yorkshire village through the ages.

As a kid I used to devour @starburst.bsky.social magazine. So I’m absolutely chuffed that they’ve given SCRATCH MOSS such an in-depth and fabulous review.

www.starburstmagazine.com/reviews/scra...

POSSESSION (1981) - STARBURST Magazine Andrzej Żuławski' Possession, a primal scream of psychosexual horror starring Sam Neill and Isabelle Adjani, is available now on 4K UHD.

And ICYMI, you can check out my review of Second Sight’s Possession 4K release over @starburst.bsky.social

www.starburstmagazine.com/reviews/poss...

Shannon Eric Denton • SPECTORS - STARBURST Magazine Shannon Eric Denton is a renowned comics/games/animation writer-artist and the founder of Monster Forge Productions. They are the writer and co-creator of Monster Forge’s newest title SPECTORS publish...

SPECTORS! Writer Shannon Eric Denton chats with Starburst magazine about his and David Hartman's upcoming Monster Forge book SPECTORS published by Titan Comics!

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@comicstitan.bsky.social @starburst.bsky.social

#comics #graphicnovel #horror #monster

MERCY - STARBURST Magazine Timur Bekmambetov’s screenlife sci-fi Mercy puts Chris Pratt against an AI justice system, needing to prove that he didn't kill his wife.

Timur Bekmambetov’s screenlife sci-fi Mercy puts Chris Pratt against an AI justice system, needing to prove that he didn't kill his wife.

Read our review -

www.starburstmagazine.com/reviews/mercy/

28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE - STARBURST Magazine Nia DaCosta takes the baton from Danny Boyle to deliver The Bone Temple, a bold, bleak but breathtaking start to a new year of genre cinema.

"A bold, bleak, but breathtakingly accomplished start to a new year of genre cinema."

Read our full review of 28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE here: www.starburstmagazine.com/reviews/28-y...

YouTube video by STARBURST Magazine Writer-Director ALBERY BIRNEY Talks Lo-Fi Fantasy OBEX

Did I mention I interviewed @albertbirney.bsky.social about the upcoming OBEX (on digital 2/6) for @starburst.bsky.social? 'Cause I did & you should check it out & definitely see the movie because it's brilliantly, hauntingly wonderful. youtu.be/nCwvur3ALH0?...

28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE - STARBURST Magazine Nia DaCosta takes the baton from Danny Boyle to deliver The Bone Temple, a bold, bleak but breathtaking start to a new year of genre cinema.

"A bold, bleak, but breathtakingly accomplished start to a new year of genre cinema."

Here's our ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ review of 28 Years Late: the Bone Temple -

www.starburstmagazine.com/reviews/28-y...

For @starburst.bsky.social #492, I explore why HAUSU (1977) - Nobuhiko Obayashi's kaleidoscopic collision between Sam Raimi's The Evil Dead (1981) and Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! (1969-1970) - is more art-house (or art-hausu?) than haunted house horror!

OMNISCIENT READER: THE PROPHECY - STARBURST Magazine Director and co-writer Kim Byung-woo turns up the visual spectacle and gets playful with the mythology in this big screen adaptation of the popular South Korean web comic Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint...

My review of the big screen adaption of a popular South Korean web comic is up now on @starburst.bsky.social

www.starburstmagazine.com/reviews/omni...

DON'T TRIP - STARBURST Magazine A young wannabe scriptwriter, who’s struggling to get attention for his first movie pitch, comes up with a high-risk plan to bypass the industry gatekeepers – befriending the wayward, slacker son of a...

My review of indie Hollywood satire Don't Trip is now up on @starburst.bsky.social - "There’s plenty of humour, and no little warmth, in what’s a promising calling-card for Kugelman" www.starburstmagazine.com/reviews/dont...

Fireworks. Mostly purple and orange

Happy New Year!
We hope you have a brilliant 2026 and we cannot wait to see you in April!

Shameless self promotion, my "red Gobbo" got show cased on the Warhammer community page today!

Feeling very good.

#warhammercommunity
#wh40k
#nerdlings
@starburst.bsky.social

Mad Max Goes Upbeat in the latest Dimension Twenty show.

#Dropout #Dimension20 #BrennanLeeMulligan #GladLands

Link below.

POSSESSION (1981) - STARBURST Magazine Andrzej Żuławski' Possession, a primal scream of psychosexual horror starring Sam Neill and Isabelle Adjani, is available now on 4K UHD.

'Thematically rich... Sensually devastating...'

I review @secondsightfilms.bsky.social splendid new edition of 1981's provocative psycho-sexual shocker POSSESSION, starring Isabelle Adjani & Sam Neill.

Check it out over at @starburst.bsky.social
Possession releases Dec 15 on 4K UHD & Blu-ray

A bloke dressed as Santa swinging an axe towards the camera.

The father (Christmas) of all slasher Santa films is back, over forty years after it once outraged audiences into a cinema ban.

Read our review of this year's Silent Night, Deadly Night (re-)remake -

www.starburstmagazine.com/reviews/sile...

Demon Slayer Goodie Box from the fine people at Crunchyroll. Photo includes a box with Demon Slayer on it, a Demon Slayer mug, some lovely tea, a lovely tea ball device, some incense and an incense holder. And a red ribbon. No demons harmed in taking this photo.

A lovely @crunchyroll.com care parcel has arrived!

Thank you to the team and the amazing #Demonslayer creators.

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity castle is the highest grossing Japanese movie of all time and the 5th highest across the globe in 2025, earning $738M worldwide.

THE CREEPS - STARBURST Magazine Presented as an homage to the most obvious Eighties movies, The Creeps hangs a lot of references on the flimsiest of plots.

“We can forgive the shoddy CGI and the faux Alan Silvestri score, but the plot lacks imagination and basic continuity, and the shoehorned 80’s references are painful to watch.” My review of #TheCreeps (and a swipe to #Anemone) in @starburst.bsky.social.
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YouTube video by STARBURST Magazine Composer Dave Porter Talks PLURIBUS and More

Just me and Vince Gilligan's favorite composer chatting about PLURIBUS and whatnot for @starburst.bsky.social. youtu.be/fTjFTFF4QKw?...

Just in time for the holidays, it's a new @starburst.bsky.social! In my Book Wormhole column, I take a look at a #weridfiction classic: Gertrude Barrows Bennett's "Claimed!" (exclamation mark mandatory). Meanwhile, over in our 1001 Films Feature, I spotlight the Japanese horror film #Reincarnation.

This BEAUT of an issue is out NOW! I’ve got the cover feature - the story of The Bride of Frankenstein in all media - and the final part of my Super Sentai deep dive. Plus Telephemera on that time Red Buttons played a reluctant spy! Plus, editor Martin interviews the Greasy Strangler’s Jim Hosking!

WAKE UP DEAD MAN: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY - STARBURST Magazine Wake Up Dead Man is the third mystery from the team of writer-director Rian Johnson and Daniel Craig’s genius detective Benoit Blanc.

Benoit Blanc is back, with a seemingly impossible locked room case to crack! Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery is in cinemas now.

Read our review -

www.starburstmagazine.com/reviews/wake...