Welcome to - The Science Fiction, Horror and Fantasy Film Review
The Science Fiction, Horror and Fantasy Film Review is an attempt to provide an exhaustive online resource and an intelligent and well-reasoned review guide to fantastic cinema. It is hoped that the site will provide visitors with informed and well-reasoned criticism, as well as direct people toward less well-known genre material.
Fantastic Cinema is an umbrella label that covers material of great diversity. Here you will find coverage of films as far apart as The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Bambi, of directors that range from Ingmar Bergman to Edward D. Wood Jr – all are represented here and each discussed in terms of their own merits. Fantastic Cinema is not always easy to define in terms of thematic boundaries and a deliberately broad interpretation of what constitutes genre material has been taken in the hope that it will provide interesting discussion.
This site has been set up firstly because of the author’s lifelong passion for the subject matter and a desire to expound forth and, secondly, because it fills a gap. There is a disappointing lack of online sites offering worthwhile genre criticism and an even more disappointing lack of general sites offering historical and archival material. It is hoped that the site will eventually become the most comprehensive and authoritative site on the subject.
We hope you enjoy your stay. The site is constantly being updated and expanded so please bookmark the site and return again. Please feel free to contact the author and say what you think. Differing opinions are always welcomed.
The site has been divided into several different destinations. Clearly there are some fields that will be of interest to some but not others. So one can browse the pages that list SF, Horror or Fantasy separately. There is also an alphabetical list of all titles.
Enormously charming stop-motion animation from cult indie director Wes Anderson ... imagine the suave cool of Ocean's Eleven enacted by Beatrix Potter talking animals
TV movie about the onset of an Ice Age that uncannily prefigures The Day After Tomorrow, although a low budget gives little scope to depiction of the disaster
Sequel to the vampire romance Twilight where the original's modest naturalism is supplanted by constant pin-up posturing for the teenage girl audiences
Incredibly lame romcom featuring Eva Longoria as an interfering ghostly ex ... despite a veteran sitcom writer at the helm, neither the comedy nor the romance work
Amiably enjoyable animated effort that is premised around a single gag - an alien invader film where the alien is a human astronaut stranded on an alien world
Welcome anathema to the giddy spectacle of 2012, post-holocaust tale that paints a human face on all the mass destruction in the bleakest possible terms
Made at the height of the popularity of tv's The X Files, an ungainly attempt to create an alien invasion conspiracy film crossbred with an action film
The Three Stooges' usual inanity is watered down as they play second-fiddle in a fairytale - with ice-skating sequences! - and looking uncomfortable about it
Based on the story of a fascinatingly perverse true-life British killer of the 1940s, a classic that far surpasses the modern true life serial killer stories
Space exploration film made in Soviet-occupied Czechoslovakia ... has a reasonable reputation but its depiction of the mundanity of an expedition tends to come across as dull
