If you went down to the woods today, you’ll have been in for a big surprise as the dead have risen in Hampshire for “Day 66”. Surely it can’t be the apocalypse? Now?

If you went down to the woods today, you’ll have been in for a big surprise as the dead have risen in Hampshire for “Day 66”. Surely it can’t be the apocalypse? Now?

With the popularity of the zombie genre simply – heh – refusing to die, when thecraggus.com heard about “Day 66”, a new independent horror movie filming practically in our own backyard (or, more accurately, literally in the backyard of a friend of the family), we weren’t going to sleep through the end of the world. ..

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The Joy Of Six: What The Craggus Saw’s 6th Anniversary 1,214 posts 781,005 words And a lot of fun and stress along the way. There’s still plenty more to come from What The Craggus Saw as we head towards our Magnificent Seventh Anniversary next year, including:   and so much more. So, whether you’re reading ..

Godzilla: King Of The Monsters (2019) Review

Godzilla: King Of The Monsters (2019) Review

They mostly come out in murky light. Mostly. Typical. You wait five years for a monster to show up and then four come at once. Following the events of “Godzilla”, secretive megacryptid management organisation Monarch has been working diligently to discover, catalogue and contain the various Titans which slumber across the globe but when eco-mercenary ..

Men In Black: International (2019) Review

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Men In Black: International offers self-neuralyzing entertainment For a franchise which has often been plagued with a sense of déjà vu (indeed its first sequel was an almost note for note remake of the first film and its second was themed around the redoing historic events), the most disappointing aspect of “Men In Black: International” ..

Ma (2019) Review

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Ma doesn’t need to spike your drink to put you to sleep The most horrifying thing about this lukewarm all-filler, no-killer thriller “Ma” is how much on-screen talent is wasted in telling its flaccid, predictable and profoundly stupid story. When Maggie (Diana Silvers) is moved back to her mum’s hometown, she’s quick to make new ..

Amicus Doctor Who Review

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Canon to the left of us, non-canon to the right, here we are stuck in the middle with…Who? Looking back at Peter Cushing’s Amicus Doctor Who for the2nd Great Hammer-Amicus Blogathon If you thought Sony’s plan to create a viable cinematic franchise based around a popular recurring villain from another franchise with “Venom” was a ..

X-Men: Dark Phoenix (2019) Review

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X-Men: Dark Phoenix offers us the chance to dine on ashes while flipping us the bird To the surprise of literally nobody, rising with an entirely unmerited sense of entitlement from the ashes of “X-Men: Apocalypse”, writer/ director Simon Kinberg has only managed to conjure a turkey from the flames. In the 1990s, the X-Men ..

Catch-22 Review

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