Acceleration: High-Speed Horror, Fantasy & Science Fiction

Check out this musical montage of Cinefantastique’s favorite moments of vertiginous velocity, featuring superheroes, super spies, and super-sized monsters, along with a cyborg or two. “Acceleration” (Biodrowski/So), copyright 2020. Performed by Gothique, with special guest BlackMouth on piano and keyboards.

R.I.P: Cinefantastique Alumni Dan Cziraky

Dan Cziraky

Following a long battle with ill health, Cinefantastique writer Dan Cziraky passed away in the early hours of May 17, 2020, just a few days after his birthday; he was 58. A freelance writer with many credits, he contributed frequently to our publications: Cinefantastique, Imagi-Movies, Femmes Fatales. Often he covered cult topics (e.g. MYSTERY SCIENCE …

The Living Skeleton: complete movie free

Watch THE LIVING SKELETON (1968) for free on YouTube. The 81-minute black-and-white Japanese ghost story was directed by Hiroshi Matsuno, from a script by Kyuzo Kobayashi, Kikuma Shimoizaka. Kikko Matsuoka stars in dual role as an innocent woman and her vengeful dead sister, along with Yasunori Irikawa, masumi Okada, Asao Uchida, Asao Koike. This was …

Possession (1980) – watch free

Some films are too weird to satisfy yet too fascinating to dismiss. Take, for instance, POSSESSION (1980), the uber-strange film from Polish director Andrzej Zulawski, which stars Isabelle Adjani and Sam Neill as a married couple undergoing some kind of breakdown. Conventional melodrama, right? No. The marital discord manifests in bizarre and frightening ways, as …

La La Noche de Walpurgis (1971) – complete movie, free

LA NOCHE DE WALPURGIS (“The Night of Walpurgis,” 1971)  is the third film in which Spanish actor Paul Naschy portrayed Waldemar Daninsky, a nobleman cursed with lycanthropy. As in the previous year’s LOS MONSTROUS DEL TERROR (“The Monsters of Terror,” a.k.a. ASSIGNMENT TERROR), Daninsky is revived when the silver bullets that “killed” him in the …

9 – The Complete Original Short Subject

The original short subject 9, on which the new feature film is based, is a cryptic little gem. Without the time to develop its premise fully into a dramatic story, writer-director Shane Acker instead presents an eerie vignette that throws us into a seemingly post-apocalyptic world. Without dialogue or exposition, Acker’s film leaves us to …

Dressed to Kill – Watch for Free

Yesterday, we mentioned the website Fancast, which offers a variety of free movies and television epsidoes, including writer-director Brian DePalma’s 1980 giallo-style thriller, DRESSED TO KILL, starring Michael Caine, Nancy Allen, and Keith Gordon. Since Fancast has an embed function, we thought we would give you a chance to enjoy the film here at Cinefantastique …

Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) – Watch Free!

The remake of THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL comes out on home video this week, and one of the nice features of the 3-disc Blu-ray set is that the third disc contains the 1951 original, widely regarded as one of the greatest science fiction flms ever made (a reputation in no way threatened by …

Frankenstein (1910) – Watch for Free

Produced by Thomas Edision, this is the first film adaptation of Mary Shelly’s novel Frankenstein– a ten-minute short subject written and directed by J. Searle Dawley, who takes a few key incidents and weaves them into an imaginative, mystical take on the story. (In keeping with the novel, this film has little to say about science; …