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  • Night of the Living SCUFF – August 2019

    Sword of the Stranger A young boy and his dog find themselves the target of the Ming: a foreign dynasty that will stop at nothing. One day, a

  • Night of the Living SCUFF – June 2019

    24 x 36: A Movie about Movie Posters The art of the movie poster has become something of a dying breed in the age of blockbusters and studio

  • Night of the Living SCUFF – April 2019

    This April, SCUM is paying tribute to one of the Masters of Horror, Tobe Hooper! We will be screening two of his unforgettable classics, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

  • Night of the Living SCUFF – Feb 2019

    The most excellent film to watch in 2019! Kicking off the new year, we are very excited to screen one of the most well-loved buddy comedy of all

  • Night of the Living SCUFF 2

    Night of the Living SCUFF is back! We will be featuring The Prodigal Son, widely touted as one of the best Kungfu movies ever made. It features two

February 2014 Screening – The Warriors

SCUM CINEMA PRESENTS: The Warriors VENUE: The Arts House Screening Room DATE & TIME: 28 February 2014, 8:30pm RATING: M18 (Violence) COST: Free admission – This film is rated M18, therefore all patrons need to be at least 18 years [...]

January 28, 2014 Events

R.I.P., Toh Hai Leong, 58

Best known for his legendary mockumentary Zombie Dogs (a.k.a. Eat Shit Fuck & Die), Singaporean film-maker Toh Hai Leong died yesterday at the age of 58. According to The Straits Times, he succumbed to ‘diabetes-related pneumonia‘. Hai Leong was a one-of-a-kind [...]

January 16, 2014 News

Review: Merantau (2009)

Review by: Monkey Fist SCUM Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ I’ve been a fan of action/kung-fu films for a while now and I’m glad that aside from Tony Jaa and Jeeja Yanin, we have another action star in-the-making from [...]

January 7, 2014 Reviews

Review: Lifeforce (1985)

Review by: Monkey Fist SCUM Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 28 Days Later was not the first film to feature running zombies. That honour belongs to Lifeforce, which is, of course, one of the greatest, if not the greatest [...]

December 18, 2013 Reviews

Review: The Fury (1978)

Review by: Mountain Monkey SCUM Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ Brian De Palma’s The Fury (1978) gets the high definition treatment with not one but two Blu-ray releases this year. Back in March, Twilight Time released their Blu-ray of The Fury for [...]

November 29, 2013 Reviews

Review: Special ID (2013)

  Review by: Monkey Fist SCUM Rating: ★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆ During the 80s and 90s, Donnie Yen’s had some hits and misses with the movies he’s  starred in. Over the last couple of years, I was glad that he was [...]

November 16, 2013 Reviews

Review: ‘The Story of Kong Ngee’ retrospective

Review by: Mountain Monkey Hong Kong film fans in Singapore were offered a rare treat last month, when the National Museum of Singapore presented ‘The Story of Kong Ngee’ retrospective. Presented in conjunction with the Hong Kong Film Archive, 15 Cantonese [...]

November 15, 2013 Reviews

December 2013 Screening – Kungfu Double Bill

SCUM CINEMA PRESENTS: The 36th Chamber of Shaolin + 5 Deadly Venoms VENUE: The Arts House Screening Room DATE & TIME: 13 December 2013, 7:30pm RATING: NC16 COST: Free admission Kicking-off a series of bi-monthly, free screenings of cult classics, [...]

November 13, 2013 Events

Top 10 Hong Kong Horror Classics on YouTube

These days, we are bombarded with so many reel gems sitting around in YouTube that we decided to start a new feature (where we spend hours) sifting out the best in class, so you dont have to. Whenever possible, we [...]

November 8, 2013 Features

Review: The Mighty Peking Man (1977)

Review by: Mountain Monkey SCUM Rating: ★ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ Available on DVD as part of Quentin Tarantino’s Rolling Thunder Pictures Triple Feature, and also on Blu-ray from Japan (warning, no English subtitles available with the Japanese release), I finally [...]

November 1, 2013 Reviews