John Carter (2012)
Mar 9, 2012Planetary Adventure/Edgar Rice Burroughs Adaptation
While the film bombed, it emerges as a fairly good and faithful, lavishly produced adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ swashbuckling planetary adventure
Nicholas Woodeson
The Limehouse Golem (2016)
Sep 25, 2017Victorian Serial Killer
This comes with a captivating tagline "Before The Ripper, fear had another name" and misleadingly suggests it is based on another true-life Victorian serial killer. This refuses to be the police procedural you expect
The Living and the Dead (2016)
May 9, 2023Ghost Story
One of the best and most original ghost stories in some time, a mini-series for the BBC set in the 1890s, this does remarkable things in entirely turning the genre on its head
Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare (2025)
Apr 18, 2025Horror Version of Peter Pan
From the people behind Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey, this is the horror version of Peter Pan. And good grief, does this go dark with Peter as a child abductor and Tinkerbell who shoots up ‘fairy dust’ through a needle