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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

Top 10 Favourite Films of All Time 2016

It’s that time of the year again when we compile Top 10 lists for 2016 and as usual, we can’t seem to agree on a theme. So naturally, we did what any good b-grade film critic would do – revisit our Top 10 Favourite Films [...]

December 21, 2016 Features

Review: The Scapegoat (2012)

Review by: MoonCroaker SCUM Rating: ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ It was grownup family movie night at the homestead as my mother, wife and sat down to watch something we could all like. With very different tastes running from murder mysteries, to sci-fi [...]

August 19, 2016 Reviews

SCUFF 2016

SINGAPORE CULT & UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL (SCUFF) 2016 After the overwhelming response to our experimental mini film festival (SCUMSCOPE) last year, we are happy to announce the return of the film festival for 2016, under the new name of SCUFF! This [...]

March 3, 2016 Events

10 Movie Trends That Defined 2015

Mid-decade; Notable movie trends in 2015 as observed by Menstrual Bazin.   1. The Medium of Film Strikes Back: In 2014, there were 2 major 70mm releases: Interstellar and Inherent Vice (35mm blow-up). Both were released on film ahead of [...]

January 15, 2016 Features

Top 10 Favourite Films of All Time

Every year end, all of us at SCUM will get together to discuss the best movies we have watched for that year, and try to come up with a Top 10 list of sorts. But somehow or other, said list has never [...]

December 31, 2015 Features

December 2015 Screening: Deathgasm + Death Race 2000

Til Death Do Us Part! End the year with a double dose of deadly dynamites – from a 70s Roger Corman cult classic, to the most talked-about surprise hit of 2015, the awesomely titled Deathgasm! You’d be better off dead if you miss these…. DEATHGASM — [...]

December 2, 2015 Events

Top 10 Cinephile Destinations

  Love Film, Will Travel. Foodies will fly halfway across the world to eat raw brains off a live donkey, while animal lovers fly to Germany to make sweet love to one. If you can pry a cinephile off their local [...]

November 18, 2015 Features

October 2015 Screening: SCUMScope – Singapore’s First Alternative Film Festival

ANNOUNCING SCUMSCOPE: SINGAPORE’S FIRST ALTERNATIVE FILM FESTIVAL After months of preparation and negotiations, we are proud to launch SCUMSCOPE – Singapore’s First Alternative Film Festival! It’s been a long and hard road, but we are glad to announce that it’s [...]

September 30, 2015 Events

12 Most Outrageous Dance Scenes

So you enjoyed those classic moves from Pulp Fiction, Napoleon Dynamite and Van Damme’s “cheesier-than-7-cheese-pizza” gooeyness in Kickboxer. Well, we dug through our SCUM archive to compile a dozen more to stir your loins…   12. Donga A 1985 Telugu [...]

September 1, 2015 Features

10 Commonly Misused Terms in Cinema

Countdown of top 10 common Cine faux pas to avoid for any self-respecting movie buff or cinephile: 10. Silent Film Usually accompanied by anything from a guitar, piano, to an entire orchestra. The term “silent film” is a retronym, coined [...]

August 15, 2015 Features