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FANG GIRL
ABIGAIL The Scream team is back with a heist/vampire movie full of biting twists and turns.
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HOPELESSLY DEVOTED TO CULT CINEMA
Deep within a radiator, a woman sings songs about heaven. Over at the Frankenstein place, frisky libertines do the Time Warp. In a wood cabin, teenagers stir demons. Two failing actors endure an accidental holiday. An enduring Dude disses The Eagles. And a death-fixated young man crushes on a morbid OAP… Welcome to the wonderfully weird world of cult cinema
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HOT RIGHT NOW
JOHN BOYEGA IS ALL BOOKED UP.
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THE GREATEST CULT MOVIES OF ALL TIME
Weird creatures, unlikely heroes, black-and-white curios and, erm, a human centipede. Total Film celebrates cinema's glorious mavericks and mould-breakers.
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SATANIC PANIC
THE FIRST OMEN Turns out that before the birth of Satan's son, things were really scary…
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CULT LEADERS
The niche filmmakers who've become cult icons.
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SO CULT IT'S NOT
The cult hits which exploded into the mainstream…
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NOA'S ARC
KINGDOM OF THE PLANET OF THE APES New hairy hero Noa heads up a fresh chapter in the apocalyptic primate saga, as past and future begin to converge…
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FRIDAY THE 13TH
Forty years ago, a small independently made shocker did for summer camps what Jaws had done for the ocean and Halloween had done for closets. Total Film makes a date with director Sean Cunningham and producer Steve Miner for some FRIDAY THE 13TH flashbacks…
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DYNAMIC DUO
DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE The Merc with a Mouth has a claws to join the MCU…
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FLASH GORDON
FLASH GORDON APPROACHING! AS THE SCI-FI CLASSIC TURNS 40, TOTAL FILM DISPATCHES WAR ROCKET AJAX TO GET THE BEHINDTHE-SCENES STORY FROM THE DIRECTOR AND STARS.
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JEEPERS KEEPERS
HOARD British newcomer Luna Carmoon's distinctive debut comes straight from the heart…
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SUSPIRIA
As Luca Guadagnino's star-studded remake of Suspiria prepares to pirouette into cinemas, TF rounds up original director Dario Argento and his cast to look back on the mad making of a scarily inventive, exquisitely gory game-changer that's both bonkers and brilliant…
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THE LL WORD
Contributing editor LEILA LATIF has something to say…
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BLUE VELVET
The opening of Lynch's American Dream…
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auto eroticism
As sex-and-wrecks classic Crash hurtles towards its 25th birthday, director David Cronenberg buckles up to guide Total Film through its hazardous journey.
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YAS QUEEN
SEIZE THEM! Aimee Lou Wood and Nicola Coughlan go to war in this medieval satire…
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The Warr iors
Celebrating the revolutionary film The Warriors, Total Film joins director Walter Hill and star Michael Beck to look back at the making of the controversial cult hit forged on the streets of New York.
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SOUND BYTES
The month in dialogue and digits.
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KING FOR A DAY
JEANNE DU BARRY Actor-director Maïwenn confronts controversy with Johnny Depp…
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AKIRA
On your bikes…
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BILL & TED'S BOGUS JOURNEY
A matter of life, Death and Twister…
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AIRPLANE!
Making a lasting impact on both spoofs and disaster movies, Airplane! still has an unbeatable gag-per-minute rate that continues to inspire more than 40 years on. Total Film meets writer/director Jim Abrahams to discuss the serious business of comedy.
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AMERICAN NIGHTMARE
CIVIL WAR Alex Garland looks into a nearfuture where the States are far from united…
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CLOSE-UP
Jim Abraham on what's surely the comedy's most memorable one-liner…
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THE GREEK ESCAPE
DRIFT Anthony Chen's refugee drama features Cynthia Erivo like you've never seen her before…
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SHORT CUTS
The latest happenings in movieland…
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WHAT HAPPENED NEXT…
All that ZAZ… What Abrahams and the Zu did after sticking the landing.
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WAYNE'S WORLD
The clue is in the title. If cult films often create worlds bent to slanted rules of their own, Wayne's World proclaims its candidacy upfront. With the cult qualities of vivid outsider characters and quotable dialogue factored in, this party was on. Even if no one saw it coming…
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NEXT BIG THING
SOFIA OXENHAM IS STEPPING INTO HER POWER.
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RETROSPECTIVE Austin powers INTERNATIONAL MAN OF MYSTERY
As Mike Myers returned to the big screen in Bohemian Rhapsody, Total Film caught up with him to reflect on the grief that inspired the swinging super-spy who defined his career
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ALL ABOUT STEVE
STEVE! (MARTIN) A DOCUMENTARY IN 2 PIECES Apple gets to the core of a crazy guy…
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MOTHER SUPERIOR
IMMACULATE You can't conceive of what happens in Sydney Sweeney's biblical horror.
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CRYSTAL VISIONS
As Jim Henson's muppet masterpiece The Dark Crystal celebrates its 39th birthday (yes, we feel old), Total Film dives into the archives to uncover exclusive concept art and behind-the-scenes imagery from a cult classic…
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the Witches at 30
Nicolas Roeg's adaptation of Roald Dahl's The Witches terrified a generation of children. As the film turned 30 in 2020, Total Film reflected with star Anjelica Huston on the making of a kid-friendly creepfest.
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ESSEX GIRLS
SILVER HAZE Sacha Polak reunites with Vicky Knight for a tale of revenge and reconciliation…
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BETWEEN TAKES
LUKE EVANS ON INDIE SETS, FRESH UNDERWEAR AND SWIMMING WITH SNAKES…
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TRON
Adored by sci-fi fans, snubbed by the Academy, Tron's cutting-edge special effects made it a pixel pioneer 39 years ago. Total Film dialled up director Steven Lisberger and his team of FX sorcerers to talk about ushering in the Age of CGI.
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ROYALLY SCREWED
SCOOP Philip Martin brings one of TV's most spectacular car crashes back to our screens.
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CAMP CLASSICS
A nudge, a wink, a heightened feel for the theatrical. Cinema and camp go together like mirrorballs and disco in these movies, all closely tied to LGBTQ+ culture and fuelled by witty reserves of irreverent, pointed genre subversion. And if they look fabulous in the process, so much the better…
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DOGME DAYS
Twenty-six years ago, Lars von Trier and fellow Danes launched the radical Dogme 95 movement. In celebration – festen! – Total Film picks 20 things that made it great…
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NORTHERN FRIGHTS
PASSENGER A close-knit community is torn apart by mysterious disappearances.
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SOLDIER OF FORTUNE
DISCO BOY Giacomo Abbruzzese's debut digs into the mystery of the French Foreign Legion…
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HAMMER TIME
For a decade or so, small British outfit Hammer Films ruled the world by shocking viewers senseless. Then they faded like a vampire in the sunlight. Here's how it came to be… and pass.
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BOUT TIME
JAKE GYLLENHAAL IS THE NEW BOUNCER IN TOWN AS A UFC-FLAVOURED REMAKE OF 80S FAVOURITE ROAD HOUSE FINALLY HITS SCREENS – AND HE'S GOT MMA STAR CONOR McGREGOR TO GRAPPLE WITH. TOTAL FILM TAKES IT OUTSIDE WITH THE STARS TO TALK REINVENTING FILM FIGHTS, PATRICK SWAYZE AND OFF-SCREEN BATTLES…
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FIGHTING FIT
HOW JAKE GYLLENHAAL GOT INTO DALTON SHAPE…
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VHS FROM nasties TO nostalgia
IN 1976, A NEW TECHNOLOGY BEGAN TO APPROACH OUR HOUSES. TODAY, 45 YEARS ON, VHS IS THE STUFF OF CHERISHED MEMORIES, ITS TRANSFORMATIVE EFFECTS ON HOW WE WATCH MOVIES STILL FELT. TOTAL FILM REWINDS BACK TO THE START OF THE FUTURE OF HOME CINEMA…
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rewind
THE TF TEAM REFLECT ON A FORMAT…
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FAVOURITE SWAYZE
THE CAST'S FAVOURITE FILMS STARRING THE OG DALTON…
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DOCTOR'S ORDERS
DANIELA MELCHIOR TALKS BARS AND SEEING STARS
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GIALLO
Bloody beautiful…
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THE BIG CHILL
Slimer, the Ecto-1 and the mini Stay Puft marshmallows make a welcome return to New York City in Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire. Director Gil Kenan and the cast of new and returning ‘busters tell Total Film about the latest chilling sequel.
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THE TF BRAIN CULT CLASSICS
David Lynch! Donnie Darko! Peter Duncan! Test your cult-movie knowledge…
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JOHN CARPENTER CELEBRATING THE MASTER OF HORROR
Total Film meets the man behind Michael Myers, R.J. MacReady and most of your favourite ‘80s movies to discuss his illustrious and often tumultuous career, and how he's happier than ever making music…
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CARRIE COON
Egon's daughter on embracing ‘busting…
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BEST IN SHOW
Doing a JC top 10 was impossible. So here's 12…
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ERNIE HUDSON
The OG ‘buster answers the call
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SULTAN OF SYNTHS
The foremost DIY punk-synth pioneer of pulp cinema, John Carpenter has composed influential scores for most of his movies. He picked the right man for the jobs…
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PAUL RUDD
The Marvel star on proton packs and KitKats
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RESIDENT EVIL
The day HE was home…
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THE LONG GAME
AFTER DAVID BENIOFF AND D.B. WEISS ENDED GAME OF THRONES, THERE WAS ONLY ONE WAY TO GO: UP. AS THEY UNVEIL THE GENRE-SPLICING, CHINESEPENNED SCI-FI 3 BODY PROBLEM, TOTAL FILM MEETS THE SHOWRUNNERS AND CAST TO TALK ABOUT THE MOST BONKERS, BRAZEN SERIES OF THE YEAR.
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VIRTUAL INSANITY
The best on-screen VR
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JOHN CARPENTER FAN CLUB
Cult directors and collaborators celebrate the Master of Horror
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NUKE WORLD ORDER
IN VIDEO-GAME ADAPTATION FALLOUT, THE END OF THE WORLD IS ONLY THE START OF THE FUN. AS THE GONZO POST-APOCALYPTIC SERIES MAKES THE LEAP TO LIVE ACTION, TOTAL FILM STRAPS ON A PIP-BOY AND VENTURES INTO THE WASTELAND WITH THE CAST AND CREATORS OF THE NEXT IRRADIATED-WATER-COOLER SHOW.
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TRASH FLOW THE CAREER OF JOHN WATERS
No account of John Waters’ career is complete without an affectionate sobriquet or two. The Prince of Puke, Duke of Dirt, Pope of Trash… Waters has been dubbed all these and more. Whichever you choose, the man who put the ‘more’ in Baltimore gives cult cinema a good name.
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SUIT CASE
How Fallout's practical Power Armour was made.
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KATHRYN BIGELOW LIFE IN PICTURES
Before becoming the first woman in history to win Best Director at the Academy Awards in 2009, Kathryn Bigelow was best known as the director of cult gems like Near Dark and Point Break. It was this adventurous, genre-agnostic approach to picking projects that made Bigelow a filmmaker of note long before the Academy caught on.
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my life in pictures William Friedkin
As one of the most controversial auteurs of the New Hollywood era, William Friedkin rewrote the rulebook with films such as The French Connection, The Exorcist and Sorcerer. Now returning with a new homeentertainment release for his most divisive film, ruising, cinema's great outsider talks TF through his career.
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AMER MUS ICAN CLE
After a scorching debut with Saint Maud, filmmaker Rose Glass returns with a horny, brawny, magical-realist tale of romance, regret and ‘raids with Love Lies Bleeding. She and her cast tell Total Film about making a ‘strong woman’ story with a twist…
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Fantastic tales
JEAN-PIERRE JEUNET | The outspoken director shares his experiences on the brilliantly bizarre movies that have shaped his career.
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STRONG FEMALE CHARACTERS
Five deliciously ‘monstrous’ girlfriends
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JACK O'CONNELL
Since finding fame as one of Skins’ breakout graduates, Jack O'Connell has been renowned for bringing a raw intensity to his roles. Next up, he's channelling that charisma in Amy Winehouse biopic Back to Black, playing the legendary singer's troubled partner Blake Fielder-Civil. ‘I don't think you stop learning,’ he tells Total Film. ‘New challenges are always welcome.’
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JANE CAMPION
Desire, dysfunction and deep waters…
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TAKASHI MIIKE
Extreme treasures…
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Heads you lose
SCANNERS | Cronenberg plays mind games…
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ROBOT DREAMS PG
There are no words…
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SPACEMAN 15
Into the talking-spider-verse…
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LISA FRANKENSTEIN 15
Bo(d)y meets girl…
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DO NOT EXPECT TOO MUCH FROM THE END OF THE WORLD 18
Safety-video games…
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DRIVE-AWAY DOLLS 15
It's all Coen south…
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SHAYDA 15
Taking shelter…
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LATE NIGHT WITH THE DEVIL TBC
Fright entertainment…
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SHOWING UP 12
Seize the clay…
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BOB MARLEY: ONE LOVE 12A
There's a lot to jam in…
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MONSTER 12A
Points of view…
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COPA 71 PG
Goal power…
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DOGMAN 15
Arf-decent…
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MONOLITH 15
A tale to make you brick it…
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DAZED AND CONFUSED 15
Sweeeeet emotion picture…
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BEVERLY HILLS COP TRILOGY 15
Foley order…
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PATHS OF GLORY PG
Kubrick goes forth…
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OZ
Blood and porridge…
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FRESH SPINS
Ones from the heart and art…
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LIKE A DRAGON: INFINITE WEALTH
So money…
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