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RT-Approved freelance journo, moderator & essayist specialising in horror. By-lines: Arrow Video, Second Sight, Dread Central, Film Stories & more. Podcasts: Movies with Mummy, All of Us are Lost & Savage Garden. https://linktr.ee/kathughes

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Huesera: The Bone Woman Limited Edition Blu-ray | Arrow Films Shop Huesera: The Bone Woman Limited Edition Blu-ray at Arrow Films. Free UK Delivery

Having fallen in love with HUESERA it was an absolute privilege to be able to contribute to this beautiful @arrowvideo.bsky.social release.

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It was such a fascinating interview.

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Melissa Millett explains how she trained Tonic the Cat for his role in 'Caught Stealing' Caught Stealing, from director Darren Aronofsky, is now available to buy or rent at home. Set in 1998, it follows the very bad time experienced by bartender Hank Thompson. Hank (Austin Butler) was a h...

I interviewed Tonic the Cat's trainer Melissa Millett about their work on CAUGHT STEALING:

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โ€˜Descendentโ€™ review: Dir. Peter Cilella [Celluloid Screams 2025] Last year, Rustic Films, the production company run by directing duo Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead and producer David Lawson Jr., helped make Things Will Be Different. The film was the directorial ...

Film 12:

DESCENDENT

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A blonde haired woman and a pink hair woman stand either side of someone dressed as a Predator.

A blonde haired woman and a pink hair woman stand either side of someone dressed as a Predator.

A trio of sci-fi head skull trophy props from the film Predator Badlands

A trio of sci-fi head skull trophy props from the film Predator Badlands

A collection of neon green cocktails.

A collection of neon green cocktails.

A red neon sign on a wall that reads 'First Hunt. Last Chance.'

A red neon sign on a wall that reads 'First Hunt. Last Chance.'

Last night I should have been recovering from Celluloid Screams, instead, I went to an early screening of PREDATOR: BADLANDS a film which is the porgification of the Predator franchise. Still, the after party was super fun.

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โ€˜Confessionโ€™ review: Dir. Nobuhiro Yamashita [Celluloid Screams 2025] In Nobuhiro Yamashitaโ€™s Confession, two friends find themselves trapped atop a mountain in the middle of a snowstorm. One of the pair, Jiyong (Yang Ik-june), is injured and as pal Asai (Toma Ikuta) de...

Film 11:

CONFESSION

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โ€˜It Endsโ€™ review: Dir.ย Alex Ullom [Celluloid Screams 2025] Before it debuted at SXSW, Alex Ullomโ€™s It Ends was six years in the making. The film wowed the festival audience and has since been slowly making its way around the world with its latest stop being t...

Film 10:

IT ENDS

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A sad, shaky head and sighing Kat

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Meanwhile I nearly shook my head off

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โ€˜Kombuchaโ€™ review: Dir. Jake Myers [FrightFest 2025] Trendy beverage kombucha is a fermented drink made from tea, sugar, and a bacteria culture called a SCOBY. Also known as โ€˜motherโ€™ and โ€˜mushroomโ€™, SCOBY is a symbiotic growth of bacteria and yeast. It ...

Film Three - KOMBUCHA

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โ€˜Syphonโ€™ review: Dir. Tom Botchii [Grimmfest 2025] Having previously showcased Artik at Grimmfest, writer and director Tom Botchii returns to the festival with his new movie, Syphon. Those expecting a repeat of Artik though should steal themselves, as...

Film Two - SYPHON

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โ€˜The Sleeping Beautyโ€™ review: Dir. Mattie Do [Fantastic Fest 2025] At this yearโ€™s Fantastic Fest forthcoming anthology Tales From the Woods debuted two of its chapters. The anthology reimagines the dark origins of the most beloved fairy tales. The first of these stor...

Film 9:

THE SLEEPING BEAUTY

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โ€˜Jacques the Giant Slayerโ€™ review: Dirs. Justin Benson & Aaron Moorhead [Fantastic Fest 2025] Fresh from their work on Disneyโ€™s Daredevil, directors Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead are back with the short format with Jacques the Giant Slayer. The short will form part of the forthcoming horror...

Film 8:

JACQUES THE GIANT SLAYER:

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โ€˜Orionโ€™ review: Dir. Jaco Bouwer [Filmquest 2025] Having previously built a cinematic body of work within the horror genre, directorย Jaco Bouwerย now ventures into the realm of science-fiction with his latest film,ย Orion. Rather than go big, Bouwer ke...

FILMQUEST began this weekend, review round-up.

Film One - ORION

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โ€˜Head Like a Holeโ€™ review: Dir. Stefan MacDonald-Labelle [Celluloid Screams 2025] If weird science-fiction stories are your thing, you might want to add Stefan MacDonald-Labelleโ€™s Head Like a Hole to your watchlists. Screening as part of this yearโ€™s Celluloid Screams film festival,...

Film 7:

HEAD LIKE A HOLE

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โ€˜Deathstalkerโ€™ review: Dir. Steven Kostanski [Celluloid Screams 2025] Having already made The Void, PG: Psycho Goreman, and Frankie Freako, director Steven Kostanski has a reputation for making strange and unusual films. His films also harken back to a time when practic...

Film 6:

DEATHSTALKER

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For the US release it was Brigade, not sure for the UK

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โ€˜Man Finds Tapeโ€™ review: Dirs. Peter Hall & Paul Gandersman [TriBeCa 2025] Set before, during, and after โ€˜the Larkin incidentโ€™, Peter Hall and Paul Gandermanโ€™s Man Finds Tape is one of the most dastardly films playing at this yearโ€™s TriBeCa. Told through the medium of a faux...

Film 5:

MAN FINDS TAPE

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โ€˜Head Like a Holeโ€™ review: Dir. Stefan MacDonald-Labelle [Celluloid Screams 2025] If weird science-fiction stories are your thing, you might want to add Stefan MacDonald-Labelleโ€™s Head Like a Hole to your watchlists. Screening as part of this yearโ€™s Celluloid Screams film festival,...

Film 4:

HEAD LIKE A HOLE

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โ€˜Hacked: A Double Entendre of Rage Fuelled Karmaโ€™ review: Dir. Shane Brady [Celluloid Screams 2025] In 2021, actor and director Shane Brady and his wife Emily Zerder were hacked, losing $20,000 in the process. The scenario is most peopleโ€™s worst nightmare, but rather than let the bad guys win, Brady...

Film 3:

HACKED: A DOUBLE ENTENDRE OF RAGE FUELED KARMA

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โ€˜Dead Giveawayโ€™ review: Dir. Ian Kimble [Philadelphia Film Festival 2025] In Ian Kimbleโ€™s directorial debut, Dead Giveaway, Ruby Modineโ€™s Jill wakes up hungover, hungry, and sharing her bed with a recently deceased corpse. With no memory of the night before, Jill enlists th...

DEAD GIVEAWAY:

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โ€˜Mother of Fliesโ€™ review: Dirs. John Adams, Zelda Adams & Toby Poser [Fantasia 2025] The Adams Family are a unit of filmmakers bonded not only by blood, but also their passion for independent genre cinema. We at THN have been their avid supporters since their 2019 film The Deeper You ...

Film 2:

MOTHER OF FLIES

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โ€˜Queens of the Deadโ€™ review: Dir. Tina Romero [Celluloid Screams 2025] Tina Romero has a long history with the zombie movie. Her father, the late George A. Romero essentially invented the zombie film with his trilogy, The Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, and D...

Time for the @celluloidscreams.bsky.social review thread to begin. First up, QUEENS OF THE DEAD (which happens to arrive in the US today)

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โ€˜Cinderellaโ€™ review: Dir. Adam Egypt Mortimer [Brooklyn Horror 2025] The forthcoming Tales From the Woods is a new horror anthology that reimagines the dark origins of popular fairy tales. So far THN have reviewed both Jacques the Giant Slayer from directing duo Justin...

Dipping into Brooklyn Horror festival to review Adam Egypt Mortimer's CINDERELLA

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Last nightโ€™s #BostonKickout 30th Anniversary 4K restoration screening & Q&A saw stars #JohnSimm #RichardHansen and #NathanValente back together again with director #PaulHills and reflected on their friendship 30 years on and how important the film was to them

#LimitedEdition arrives 3 Nov

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Tina Romero on making zombies fabulous in 'Queens of the Dead' Tina Romero is the daughter of legendary film director, George A. Romero, and a filmmaker in her own right. Having studied at NYC Tisch, Romero left school and became a DJ, but always had one eye on m...

Tina Romero discusses QUEENS OF THE DEAD

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Paul Hills & Marc Warren look back on 'Boston Kickout' In 1995, Paul Hills directed Boston Kickout, an award-winning autobiographical feature starring John Simm, Marc Warren, and Andrew Lincoln as a group of young men growing up in post-Thatcher Stevenage...

My BOSTON KICKOUT interview with Paul Hills and Marc Warren:

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Alex Garland "The Cat Among the Pigeons" - UNCUT PODCAST (Ex Machina, Men & More)
YouTube video by The Geek Show Alex Garland "The Cat Among the Pigeons" - UNCUT PODCAST (Ex Machina, Men & More)

New #podcast Day!

Here's the latest episode of Uncut about the provocative director, Alex Garland. @uncutrobcast.bsky.social, Graham, @kathughes.bsky.social & @simonramshaw.bsky.social talk about Ex Machina, Men & Civil War.

Check it out here: youtu.be/Ug5Kv1pHeU0?...

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Celluloid Screams 2025: THN's Picks From Thursday 23rd October โ€“ Sunday 26th October Celluloid Screams will once more take over Sheffieldโ€™s Showroom cinema for a long weekend of macabre delights. The festivalโ€™s line-up is always brillia...

@celluloidscreams.bsky.social begins on Thursday, here are some of my picks.

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You might know the host of this screening...

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