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Among the most influential and imitated movies of the last 25 years, The Blair Witch Project has never looked right on home video or DVD. That's not us saying it. We love the grainy whip pans and gushes of snot that The Blair Witch uses to burrow into your terror centers.

Stars: Derek Nelson, James Reynard, Isabella Colby Browne, Lisa Antrobus, Leona Clarke, Nicholas Anscombe | Written by Lawrence Fowler, Geoff Fowler | Directed by Lawrence Fowler

The Jack in the Box Rises continues the story of the cursed child’s toy that began with The Jack in the Box and continued in The Jack in the Box: Awakening. This time, Jack is back and hanging out in a girl’s boarding school.

Our story starts with three people breaking into a dark building looking for a heart that some guy named Harvey wants. What they find is The Dollmaker who kills two of them. Raven makes it out alive, but without what they came for.

And that’s a problem because Harvey is holding Raven’s father captive in order to get her to retrieve these supernatural artifacts. He decides to send her after something bigger this time, a demon so powerful...

When Deep Silver re-formed developer Free Radical Design a few years ago, there was hope that we’d see a return of the TimeSplitters franchise. Sadly, that return is now up in the air, as Embracer Group (which owns Deep Silver) has now closed Free Radical Design.

Per Video Games Chronicle, there were reports weeks ago that the Nottingham-based company was potentially being closed, due to company-wide cuts at Embracer and its owned publishers. The website for Free Radical Design today has effectively confirmed those reports, with the website now reading “404 Company Not Found :-(“.

As mentioned, it’s not clear what Free Radical’s closure will mean for the future of TimeSplitters, which original founders Steve Ellis and David Doak had aimed to revive alongside the revival of the studio.

The first incarnation of Free Radical Design began in 1999, where the team developed the TimeSplitters series for the PlayStation 2. A mix of sci-fi,...

Suzanne Shepherd, an actor known for her roles in “The Sopranos” and “Goodfellas,” died Friday morning in her home in New York City, her agent confirmed to Variety. She was 89.

Shepherd portrayed Mary DeAngelis, the mother of Carmela Soprano (Edie Falco), in HBO’s crime drama series “The Sopranos,” as well as the mother of Lorraine Bracco’s character Karen Hill in 1990’s “Goodfellas.” She also had roles in “Jacob’s Ladder” (1990), “Trees Lounge” (1996), “Lolita” (1997), “American Cuisine” (1998), “Living Out Loud” (1998), “Requiem for a Dream” (2000), “A Dirty Shame” (2004), “Harold” (2008), “The Week Of” (2018) and “The Performance” (2023), among other films.

Shepherd was born on Oct. 31, 1934. She made her acting debut in the 1988 romcom “Mystic Pizza,” starring Julia Roberts, and appeared in such films as “Working Girl,” “Uncle Buck” and “Second Sight” before working on Martin Scorsese’s “Goodfellas.”

On the television side, she guest-starred in “Law & Order,” “Third Watch,” “Ed,” “Blue Bloods,” “Deadline,...

Launching this fall: Shook! Songs Of The Dark Sirens: "Coming to Kickstarter this month, Second Sight Publishing has once again gathered an award-winning team of Black comic writers and artists in the follow up volume of its hit horror anthology, Shook! A Black Horror Anthology.

COO of Second Sight Publishing, Marcus Roberts, has announced the lineup for the follow up volume of the history making Shook! A Black Horror Anthology which will be coming to comic bookstores and other retail outlets Jan 2024 through Dark Horse Comics. Roberts states that a Kickstarter for the project will launch this month. The volume, entitled Shook! Songs Of The Dark Sirens will once again feature a group of the top Black writers and artists in comics along with talented newcomers and is continuing in the tradition of volume 1. “We have brought in people like Alitha Martinez, Tananarive Due, and Micheline Hess to name few,...

It’s been well over a year now since we learned that UK company Second Sight Films was working on a brand new restoration of 1986 classic The Hitcher, the company tracking down the original camera negative and allowing for a 4K Uhd and Blu-ray release. But what’s the latest update on Second Sight’s hotly anticipated release, here in mid-2023?

The company updates in a series of tweets this week, “Nearing end of the grading stage, a final session with Robert [Harmon] being scheduled soon. Release / Pre-order date Tbc.”

Second Sight also shared some comments from The Hitcher director Robert Harmon, who provides an exciting preview of the restoration-in-progress. Harmon writes…

“Stunned by how great it looks… beautiful work!! Really, this movie has no business looking this good considering how ancient the elements are. Thanks to everyone for dedication way beyond anything I could ever have hoped for.”

Second Sight is a UK company,...

Stars: Philip Sayer, Bernice Stegers, Danny Brainin, Maryam d’Abo, Simon Nash, Peter Mandell, David Cardy, Anna Wing, Robert Fyfe, Katherine Best, Robert Pereno | Written by Iain Cassie, Robert Smith | Directed by Harry Bromley-Davenport

Directed by Harry Bromley-Davenport, who co-wrote the story with Michel Parry, and written for the screen by Iain Cassie and Robert Smith, is a cult film that, in my view, is long overdue a new release, and this Second Sight project is worth the wait. It tells the story of a man who is abducted by alien lifeforms and three years afterwards he returns to his home, not the man he once was. It’s a gem of b-movie gory horror, with an unnerving tone, nasty sequences and some dated yet effective special effects. The practical gore effects are especially fun to watch, even 36 years later. If you are unaware of the film, and so unaware...

As they teased earlier this month, UK distributor Second Sight Films has now officially announced that they’re bringing George A. Romero’s Dawn of the Dead to Blu-ray, and it’ll be joined by Romero’s Martin! Second Sight has acquired the UK Home Video and VOD rights to the two films. Following a licensing deal with producer Richard P […]...

Fred Walton’s classic thriller When a Stranger Calls is a mini-classic of the slasher genre and sports one of the scariest opening scenes of all-time. And today we hear British label Second Sight is bringing us an all-new Limited Edition Blu-ray this December. Not only that, but this new Blu-ray edition will also sport the film’s lackluster […]

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Wild Eye Releasing presents Blessed are the Children!? in the vein of an old-school '80s slasher hits DVD and VOD this month. Also: Xtro Hi-Def version release details, The Church teaser trailer / release details, and Kevin Doherty's Horrormania '79: Memoirs of a Ten Year Old Horror Fan novel details.

Watch a Blessed are the Children Exclusive Clip: "In the classic tradition of the 1980’s slasher film” (Horror News), Wild Eye Releasing deliver Blessed are the Children, a Reagan-era slasher throwback that’s part Halloween, part Black Christmas, and all frights, premiering on DVD and VOD October 23.

Something sinister is following Traci and her friends – who are behind the masks!?

Traci Patterson (Kaley Ball), an adrift 20-something who's still reeling from the death of her father and her breakup with an abusive fiancé (Jordan Boyd), discovers that she's pregnant. With the help of her friends, Erin and Mandy,...

Deep Silver acquired the rights to the “TimeSplitters IP,” it announced on Wednesday.

“It is with great pleasure that we today announce the acquisition of the cherished video games series ‘TimeSplitters’ and ‘Second Sight,’ the publisher said on Twitter. “Full details will be revealed in due course.”

It is with great pleasure that we today announce the acquisition of the cherished video games series Timesplitters and Second Sight. Full details will be revealed in due course.

— Official Deep Silver (@deepsilver) August 15, 2018

“TimeSplitters” is a trio of first-person shooter titles developed by Free Radical Design in the early 2000s. Critics at the time praised its art style, humor, and strong multiplayer mode, comparing it favorably to the classic 1997 shooter “Goldeneye.”

“Second Sight” was also created by Free Radical Design. It’s a science fiction-themed stealth game released in 2004. Although it’s not as well-known as “TimeSplitters,” it was also well-received by...

Nope, this isn’t Et, The Extraterrestrial, not by a long shot. Guest reviewer Lee Broughton offers an assessment of Harry Bromley Davenport’s British cult sci-fi shocker of modest means, a show that would be pure exploitation if not for some creditable performances. It’s nasty but has a basic competence and is not just more cynical grist for the mill. ‘Phone Home,’ my Aunt Fannie: sometimes the difference between a thriller like this and a higher-profile classic is just pretension.

Xtro

Region Free Blu-ray + CD

Second Sight (UK)

1982 / Color / 1.85 widescreen / 86 min. / Street Date, 18 June 2018 / £29.99

Starring: Philip Sayer, Bernice Stegers, Danny Brainin, Maryam d’Abo, Simon Nash, Susie Silvey, Peter Mandell, Anna Wing, Tim Dry, Sean Crawford, Robert Pereno, David Cardy.

Cinematography: John Metcalfe

Film Editor: Nicolas Gaster

Production Designer: Andrew Mollo

Original Music: Harry Bromley Davenport

Written by Iain Cassie, Robert Smith, Michel Parry, Harry Bromley Davenport, Jo Ann Kaplan...

Guest reviewer Lee Broughton assesses the Armenian director Sergei Parajanov’s poetic and metaphor-filled biopic about his countryman Sayat Nova, the Armenian poet-troubadour. This new disc edition offers both versions of the picture, Parajanov’s original and the Soviet-approved version cut by seven minutes. As we learn, if a Soviet film director found favor internationally, they often landed in trouble back home.

The Colour of Pomegranates

Region B Blu-ray

Second Sight (UK)

1969 / Color / 1.33 flat full frame / 79 min. / Sayat Nova, Nran Guyne / Street Date, 19 Feb 2018 / £29.99

Starring: Sofiko Chiaureli, Melkon Alekyan, Vilen Galstyan, Gogi Gegechkori, Spartak Bagashvili, Medea Japaridze, Hovhannes Minasyan.

Cinematography: Suren Shakhbazyan

Film Editor: Marfa Ponomarenko

Production Designer: Stepan Andranikyan

Original Music: Tigran Mansuryan

Written and Directed by Sergei Parajanov

Reviewed by Lee Broughton

Sergei Parajanov’s The Colour of Pomegranates is a film with a troubled release history. The Russian censor ruled that Parajanov’s initial cut of the...

Space-travelling truckers, deathly machines and evil pirates crash the cosmos in Space Truckers, the action packed intergalactic adventure from famed director Stuart Gordon (Re-Animator). This sci-fi cult favourite comes to UK Blu-ray for the first time ever in this newly restored edition complete with brand new bonus features, courtesy of Second Sight.

Award winning Hollywood star Dennis Hopper (Blue Velvet, True Romance) is John Canyon, a long in the tooth space trucker whose latest assignment is to carry a top-secret shipment and ask no questions. Joined by his girlfriend (Debi Mazar – Entourage, Empire Records) and a new rookie apprentice (Stephen Dorff – Blade, Leatherface), the trio runs into trouble when they cross paths with ruthless pirate Captain Macanudo (Charles Dance – The Imitation Game, Game of Thrones) who discovers the mysterious cargo – an army of invincible killing machines that are headed for earth.

This bumper Blu-ray edition of Space Truckers arrives on...

An unexpected side effect of the recently lowered barrier to entry into game development is that it dilutes the amount of infamy available for individual titles. While there were plenty of bad games in the pre-App Store and pre-Greenlight eras, the true disasters are known far and wide for their lack of quality alone. These days, true disasters are everywhere, and externalities like dishonest or litigious developers are required to leave the kind of impression that Superman 64 left just by existing. Take Past Cure, for example. It’s a terrible game that will disappoint anyone drawn in by its striking screenshots and somewhat promising description, but it will be immediately forgotten, because it’s at least exactly what was advertised, albeit the worst possible form of it.

If I had to pin down the root cause of the game’s woes, I’d point to its minimal understanding of its own identity.

Brought to you by the Lorimar Film Entertainment, the company responsible for such unforgettable motion pictures as “Action Jackson”, “The Last Starfighter”, and “The Boy Who Could Fly”, director Joel “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” Zwick’s tepid 1989 comedy “Second Sight” probably has more in common with Lorimar’s wonky television output than their aforementioned cinematic efforts. This may have something to do with the presence of both John Larroquette (“Night Court”) and Bronson Pinchot (“Perfect Strangers”), two actors whose talents are probably better suited to the small screen. And while I wouldn’t necessarily call this flick an action movie, it employs just enough “buddy cop” conventions to qualify as such in my book. The film follows the exploits of the Second Sight Detective agency, a private investigate firm that comes packaged with an amazing gimmick: Bobby (Pinchot) is a certified psychic with a host of powers at his disposable,...

Stargate: Universe: Seasons 1 & 2

DVD, 20th Century Fox

There's no shame in being a cancelled TV show these days. Where science fiction is concerned, it can almost be considered a badge of honour, as in cases such as Joss Whedon's Firefly or the dark X-Files follow-up Millennium. Let's not forget that Star Trek got yanked off the air, too. One of many spinoff series from the silly but entertaining 1994 Kurt Russell blockbuster, Stargate: Universe took on a darker, more serious tone, marooning a large group of explorers (including Robert Carlyle as the resident angry genius) on a huge and ancient spacecraft of unknown origin in a distant part of the universe. After a shaky start, the show developed into something much better than expected, with the unwilling and unprepared crew regularly at risk from internal power struggles, alien attacks and mysterious forces. Unfortunately, it wasn't quite the weekly...