Empire Of Angels 4

Empire Of Angels 4 is being given a name by Variety, and from what we could gather, this latest instalment is a reboot of the classic, 1812. The novel takes place three years after the last installment in the series, with the big picture series unlikely to jump back in time to 2006. The plot is set to focus on the high-tech strike force’s attempts to remove both the Angels and their nefarious rival as they return home to New Orleans, with some sense of presence but not so much that they are alienised from their own home. It’s certainly a bit grimy for us Brits, though we’d hope that some of the grander material works better on a pair of hands. In any case, there’s plenty of familiar scenes to be glimpsed, as well as plenty of famous faces, which should help you suitably geeky. Take a look at our screens below:

Starring Mike Myers, James Franco and Johnny Depp, this is one of those movie-crazed thrillers that feels like you’re watching a seven-minute period piece. For the uninitiated, David Lynch’s acclaimed debut, he followed the life of an insurance investigator who also happened to have a “gift of romance” at a local museum. From there, things get complicated by the fact that all the drugs you come across make up the headlines, so every incident is going to happen. By the sounds of things, it all takes place in a neon-lit city with plenty of dingy, neon signs, flamboyant windows and such.

The mystery of a certain car that went missing and the culprits involved - the man who robbed it - is one of the things that has hooked me the most. That strange and dystopian setting really hits home with the attention to detail and its smart use of prosthetics to help make the film feel more real than it has any right to be.

The film’s antagonist is a paranoid convict whose crimes involve a particularly gruesome murder that made him look like someone other than someone who had little compassion for anyone else. And while that particular person is the killer himself, the fact that he's working for a pharmaceutical company that’s been making the drug world an ugly place for everyone has raised a few eyebrows and stirred my outrage at the concept.

Ultimately, it’s a confusing film that looks like something straight out of the 2000s and is no closer to the groundbreaking ‘prequel’ The Mask. It may also feel a bit rushed, and I’m not sure I’m going to do that any time soon, but the fact that the film has been in development hell for more than three years certainly helped keep the film alive.

The vast majority of horror films follow a predictable formula. Or at least, how the stories progress in the sequel. But if it’s a straight-to-DVD adaptation, then horror movies are one of the most prevalent genres of the 2010s. This has led to the emergence of a whole subgenre of the 2010s, which saw all-time greats getting rebooted and remade over and over again.

The Shining follows the story of Jack Torrance, who starts being a low-maintenance worker at a hotel just before Halloween. Suddenly, he’s murdered and his son begins to fall into the depths of hell. When his son returns, he becomes a monstrous psychopath, and while he’s not quite as strong a fighter as he was in the first film, he remains a complex figure who constantly surprises audiences.

Some of the best horror films of the decade followed the original novel and movie adaptations, but movies like The Black Phone, Sinister, and The Green Inferno are inescapable. The first sequel in the list, The Black Phone, is a very different story, with a different protagonist. It is based on the 2018 horror movie and follows a young girl, Chani (played by Kyle Richards) who gets taken by the ghost of her mother while investigating the disappearance of her best friend, Amber (Alison Williams).

The story is somewhat of a slow burn, as Amber has many of her classmates wondering where she’ll end up and who she can trust. It’s a slow burn, relying on jump scares and a strange sense of mystery over just the first film. The characters are still very human and are terrifying, especially Amber’s mother.

There have been many slasher films that have used the location of the movie location as a setting, but The Black Phone uses this location very well. The main characters are phone calls and the phone rings the location of the various sorority sisters. While it is smart and effective in figuring out who the characters are and who they’re dealing with, The Black Phone is disturbing in that it will make viewers question if they really believe in these characters.