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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

Review: Painless (aka Insensibles, 2012)

Review by: Topo Sanchez SCUM Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ Painless is the impressive directorial debut of Spanish director Juan Carlos Medina, and what a brave debut it is. Set in Catalonia, the film is essentially a double tale — one [...]

October 25, 2013 Reviews

Review: Martyrs (2008)

Review by: Topo Sanchez SCUM Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Every once in a while, the world at large is gifted with a piece of art that defies genre categorization and throws the rule books out the window. Its [...]

October 11, 2013 Reviews

Review: Grabbers (2012)

Review by: Monkey Fist SCUM Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ It’s been a while since I got really excited over a creature feature and I was indeed glad to have come across this gem whilst I was shopping at [...]

October 3, 2013 Reviews

Review: A Band Called Death (2013)

Review by: Mountain Monkey SCUM Rating: ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ Coming hot on the heels of last year’s Searching for Sugar Man (2012) is A Band Called Death, a rockumetary that treads a now familiar path about a long-forgotten star/band [...]

September 27, 2013 Reviews

Review: C.H.U.D (1984)

Review by Monkey Fist SCUM Rating: ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ C.H.U.D is one of those oddities that always stood out from the video shelves whenever I visited the rental outlet back in the mid-80s. After reading the synopsis on the [...]

September 13, 2013 Reviews

Review: Rubber (2010)

Review by: Topo Sanchez SCUM Rating: ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ A killer rubber tire on the loose – with a movie premise like that, my curiosity was definitely piqued. I could smell the potential of a cult classic in this [...]

September 7, 2013 Reviews

Star Wars cinematographer, Gilbert Taylor, dies at age 99

The cinematic world suffered a great loss with the passing of veteran cinematographer, Gilbert Taylor, on 23 August 2013.  He was 99. Taylor was involved with classics like Star Wars, Dr. Strangelove, Flash Gordon, The Omen and our favourite Polanski [...]

September 3, 2013 News

Review: Heavy Traffic (1973)

Review by: Mountain Monkey SCUM Rating: ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ To commemorate (cash-in on?) the 40th anniversary of Heavy Traffic‘s 1973 release, Shout! Factory recently released the movie on Blu-ray. The re-mastered picture and sound quality of the new disc [...]

August 30, 2013 Reviews

Review: Chocolate (2008)

Review by: Monkey Fist SCUM Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ I’ve been an avid fan of action flicks ever since I was first introduced to Bruce Lee’s Fist of Fury and Jackie Chan’s Drunken Master back in the late [...]

August 26, 2013 Reviews

Review: Strange Circus (2005)

Review by: Topo Sanchez SCUM Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ At SCUM Cinema, we have always been great fans of Sion Sono (Cold Fish, Suicide Club, Guilty of Romance, and most recently a film we reviewed, The Land of Hope). This [...]

August 21, 2013 Reviews