RDKPL — XXX

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 — Tribe(VOD)

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.

13 Souls — 13 souls( VOD)

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)

Here from the BFI here is the 6th in their CFF bumper boxset series, which collects together British children's films from between the 50’s and the 80’s. All the films here were produced by The Children's Film Foundation (CFF)- a non-profit organisation that, between the late 1940s & 1980s, made one hundred and seventy-plus films, each running just under the hour mark. This three-DVD set brings together nine films & five shorts, and once again it’s an entertaining & fun set

Mancunian low-budget Movie Mogul

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.

Repetitious History - A Quick Trip Into The World Of The Fall

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.