Comedy + genre (Fantasy, Horror, and Science-fiction)

In Time Addicts, best friends Denise and Johnny are in desperate debt to their volatile drug dealer and agree to a sketchy job to pay off their last hit – breaking into a decrepit stash house to steal a bag of mysterious drugs. But whilst getting into the house may be easy, escape proves more troublesome, as the pair find themselves trapped inside with a mysterious figure.

With no way out and not one to miss an opportunity, Johnny smokes the new drug and promptly travels into the past, triggering alarming new events in the future. Separated through time, Denise is left alone to confront her past, their dealer Kane’s real identity, and her very own existence.

Horror fans have said they were still laughing a week after watching a film that’s been described as the “funniest horror film ever”. The horror-comedy Deadstream was released in 2022, but a host of new fans have just discovered it over the Halloween period.

The outlandish film follows a disgraced content creator who attempts to win back his followers by livestreaming one night alone in a haunted house. But when he accidentally angers a vengeful spirit, his big comeback event becomes a real-time fight for his life.

The low-budget horror is presented as found-footage of the livestream in the style popularised by 1999’s The Blair Witch Project, with some fans arguing it is a cross between that and Sam Raimi’s 1981 classic The Evil Dead. Deadstream is a collaboration from husband and wife filmmaking team Joseph and Vanessa Winter, who directed, wrote, produced and edited the film, in which Joseph also starred.

Adaptation of a 1991 short story by Terry Bisson, that can be read here. This short won the Grand Prize at the Seattle Science Fiction Museum's film festival.

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edit: There are other adaptations:

• Directed by Jeff Frumess (2010). IMDb
• Directed by Safiyya Lea (2015). IMDb
• Directed by Jason Housecroft (2017) on Amazon Prime. IMDb
• Directed by Thomas Soper (uploaded 2018)

Splatter slapstick? One of Peter Jackson's (yes, that Peter Jackson) first movies. Think a milquetoast Ash Williams and the undead.

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During an unfortunate series of events a friend of Kung Fury is assassinated by the most dangerous kung fu master criminal of all time; Adolf Hitler, a.k.a Kung Führer. Kung Fury decides to travel back in time, to Nazi Germany, in order to kill Hitler and end the Nazi empire once and for all.

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When her high-school crush dies, a lonely teen digs him up and reanimates him—what could go wrong? The neon-soaked, blood-splattered, very hairspray-filled first trailer for Lisa Frankenstein (written by Jennifer’s Body scribe Diablo Cody, who won an Oscar for Juno) promises ghoulish hijinks galore.

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"Wickedly Evil" teases a blend of boisterous humor, blood-curdling monstrous mayhem, and a totally twisted narrative.

You can watch the trailer for "Wickedly Evil" here:

Marking the directorial debut of Garry Walsh ("Older Than Ireland"), the film is set for its UK digital release this November, courtesy of 101 Films.

The aftermath of a zombie onslaught being unleashed on the British city of Birmingham. Sisters Kat and Jo, together with unlikely travel companions Sunny and Amar, flee for their lives by canal boat.

Here's the link to watch for free on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMzuOaATy9w&list=PLAGuPX8AizeQnOSXGIU6kErsW0SHr4jHj&index=6

Paramount Pictures has officially changed the release date for actor-director John Krasinski‘s forthcoming fantasy comedy If (formerly titled as Imaginary Friends), which will be led by Krasinski and Ryan Reynolds. Originally scheduled for a May 24, 2024 theatrical release, the star-studded movie will now arrive in theaters a week earlier on May 17, 2024.

IF is written and directed by John Krasinski, based on his original idea about a child’s journey in rediscovering their imagination. Joining him and Reynolds are Steve Carell, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Fiona Shaw, Alan Kim, Cailey Fleming, Bobby Moynihan, Louis Gossett Jr., Matt Damon, Jon Stewart, Emily Blunt, Sam Rockwell, Richard Jenkins, Maya Rudolph, Awkwafina, Christopher Meloni, Sebastian Maniscalco, and Vince Vaughn.

During Paramount Pictures’ panel at the 2023 CinemaCon, Krasinski revealed that the film will center around a young girl who has the ability to see people’s imaginary friends who have been left behind after their real-life pals grew up.

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Peter (Scott Haran) is a former child chess prodigy who these days excels at nothing much in particular, except perhaps his ability to blend into the background. A birthday card at his office is handed to him to sign – for his own birthday. None of his colleagues know who he is, and the card is crammed with polite, anodyne messages. But he discovers that there’s one arena in which his anonymity might be a boon rather than a liability: he is recruited into the world of Bystanding, a parallel universe filled with invisible guardian types whose job is to imperceptibly guide or nudge their charges into making better life choices. They are all, in their own ways, as unremarkable as Peter, hence their selection for bystander duty.

There’s a scrappy energy to this British sci-fi comedy that offsets its micro-budget limitations. The premise is part of a cinematic family tree of quirky, metaphysical science fiction that includes the likes of Cold Souls, The Adjustment Bureau and Another Earth. There’s also a strong strand of UK comedy in the DNA, recalling material like Red Dwarf and The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy in its desire to juxtapose the mundane, trivial annoyances of life with a more expansive sense of the universe. There’s something neat too about the film’s focus on life’s quiet losers, in an era when the loudest “main character energy” personalities seem predestined for rewards in the attention economy. It almost feels like a throwback to the loose mumblecore movement of the early 2000s.

Filmed mainly on location in and around east London, this modest film clearly doesn’t have a lot of cash to splash, but sets out to prove that you don’t need much money to have a reasonably interesting idea and make a diverting film. Sci-fi is often thought of as an expensive genre, but it doesn’t have to be; this micro-budget effort proves that leaning in to charmingly cheap SFX can prove just as engaging – or even more so – than throwing billions at the screen to create a soulless churn of random pixels in the service of the latest cookie cutter superhero adventure.

Set in Los Angeles in the late 1990s, the comedy-horror-romance movie follows a struggling writer named James Bishop, who is dealing with a messy breakup with the help of his best friend while trying to finish his latest book before the impending nuclear zombie apocalypse.

Josh Monkarsh wrote and directed “As We Know It.” He says the story reflects the misadventures, friendships and heartbreak of his childhood as he grew up in ’90s-era Los Angeles. Two big sources of inspiration were John Carpenter’s sci-fi action film “They Live” and John Hughes’ coming-of-age favorite “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.”