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Woken (2024) is a dystopian sci-fi thriller arriving on UK digital on 25 May via 101 Films. Written by Alan Friel (Cake) and Rebecca Pollock (Stolen Girl), and directed by Friel in his feature-length directorial debut, the film follows Anna (Erin Kellyman), a pregnant woman who wakes on a remote island with complete amnesia, surrounded by strangers claiming to be her loved ones. As she struggles to piece together her fractured memories, she discovers a horrifying truth: humanity is on the brink of extinction, and nothing on this island is what it seems.
30 May 2026
King Futile is the new project from Scotland-based Lea Cummings( Kylie Minoise, Official Music Team, etc), and it’s a big departure from his normal noise or retro sample & electronica sound. It's lo-fi acoustic music, with an outsider feel, and often quite tongue-in-cheek/ sharply sarcastic tone to the lyrics. So far, the project has put out three albums- Casual Misery, How To Have Fun, and Zen As Fuck. I tracked down Lea for an email interview.
7 Apr 2026
51926 is an example of eerie, atmospheric, and low-key industrial-toned walled noise from Wisconsin’s Vacant Align. This is a single forty-five-minute track release.
XXX severs up two tautly textured walls from this Czech project. Each runs around the ten-minute mark, and each is as tense/ airless as the other.
Tribe is a sci-fi/horror found footage film regarding a retired professor clawing back his sanity, when he finds himself stuck in the California mountains, unable to drive with his body altered & his mind frazzled. The 2025 film blends elements of unfolding mystery, body horror, and cosmic horror- with moments of glitching dark surrealism. Here from GrimmVision is a VOD release of the film.
Brazilian filmmaker Paulo Nascimento, best known for the dramas A Oeste do Fim do Mundo and Em Teu Nome, makes his English-language debut in 2026 with the supernatural horror film 13 Souls. Dripping in heavy-handed atmosphere, it joins the legacy of young-girl-possessed films. But while it adds a mighty mythological twist, it’s let down by an overearnest approach and an underworked script.
Children’s Film Foundation Bumper Box Vol 6 — Children’s Film Foundation Bumper Box Vol 6( DVD boxset)
27 May 2026Fungicide — Fungicide( Blu Ray)
27 May 2026The Shroud — The Shroud (Blu Ray)
27 May 2026Defiled — Altered State
27 May 2026Vidna Obmana — Twilight Of Perception Redux Volume Three 1996- 2006
26 May 2026Atonauer — Ocean In A
26 May 2026Matador — Matador( Blu Ray & UHD)
25 May 2026Ard Bit — Juxtaposed
25 May 2026
Cliff Twemlow On Severin
One of last year’s real big surprises in the world of Blu-ray box sets was Bloody Legend: The Complete Twemlow Collection, as it was a wholly entertaining, fascinating, and at times heart-warming set. The Severin released boxset brought together the work of one of the UK’s unlikeliest movie moguls- Cliff Twemlow, a Mancunian bouncer/ body builder, who went on to write/star in/produce a series of low-budget/ largely SOV films in the early 80s to early 90s- these moved between action, thriller, sci-fi, and horror. His most notable/notorious film was 1983’s G.B.H., which landed on the video nasty list, though he was connected to other ten feature films, many of which got their first real full/proper release on the boxset. Opening up the set was the excellent 2023 documentary Mancunian Man: The Legendary Life of Cliff Twemlow, which really pulls you into the set. I caught up with Severn’s David Gregory and Jake West, director of Mancunian Man, to discuss the boxset and all things cliff.
The Fall
MES( Mark E Smith- The Falls main creator) possessed the ability to cram phrases into impossible spaces - “I’m hunting and I’m trying to find” delivered as “hut’na tryna find”; the eight-syllable “mere pseud mag editor’s father” hastily squeezed into a manipulation of time and space, heralded by the prior line “twice each at least”, the latter naturally repeated thrice.
Crude ‘n’ Hope-corroding Walled Noise
Back in 2024, I got my first taste of Absurd Reality, and I was so impressed by how crude and nasty its take on walled noise was. Behind the project is South Carolina-based Krys Marshall, who also runs the Filthy Sounds Recording label. He’s since gone on to form No Fun HNW, which pushes the levels of nasty crudeness even more. Krys kindly agreed to an email interview.
Creepy Images Books
Of all the cult/exploitation genres, Giallo stands as one of the more visually & art-based- be it with the grand/ dramatic location, choreographed murder scenes, or great poster art. The focus of this interview is on the last of these three- looking at the two classy/ glossy full colour Giallo Posters books put out by Germany's Creepy Images. Below is an interview with Thorsten Benzel, one of the key minds behind the books. To date, there are two volumes, with a third coming next year.