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Yesterday, we mentioned the website Fancast, which offers a variety of free movies and television epsidoes, including writer-director Brian DePalma’s 1980 giallo-style thriller, DRESSED TO KILL, starring Michael Caine, Nancy Allen, and Keith Gordon. Since Fancast has an embed function, we thought we would give you a chance to enjoy the film here at Cinefantastique [...]

Fancast, which describes itself as the “top entertainment site dedicated to celebrating television,” offers free episodes of television shows like THE INCREDIBLE HULK, THE TWLIGHT ZONE, THE ADDAMS FAMILY, STAR TREK, BATTLESTAR GALACTICA, and TWIN PEAKS, and such movies as CARNIVAL OF SOULS, DR. PHIBES RISES AGAIN, and DRESSED TO KILL.

Earlier this week, I mentioned that you could now view free science fiction, fantasy, and horor movies on YouTube, since Sony Entertainment’s Crackle.com had made their catalogue of free movies available on their very own YouTube channel. What I did not mention is that Crackle is by no means the first or only company to give away their [...]

We have just added several categories to the Video on Demand section of Cinefantastique Online. Clicking on Videon on Demand takes you to the first page of the section, which features an Amazon.com widget highlighting the latest, popular science fiction, fantasy, and horror titles available to rent or own via download. The currently featured item is [...]

[ April 24, 2009 to April 26, 2009. ] In what must be the strangest distribution strategy ever devised, MUTANT CHRONICLES opens today in exclusive engagements in New York and Hollywood – even though you can already view it here on Video on Demand. Directed by Simon Hunter, working from a script by Philip Eisner, MUTANT CHRONICLES stars Thomas Jane (THE MIST), Ron Perlman (HELLBOY [...]

Last month I mentioned that Sony Entertainment had made many of its full-length movies – including several science fiction titles – available for free on Crackle.com. Now comes word that Crackle has a YouTube channel, featuring some of the same content. Some of the science fiction, fantasy, and horror films available are STARMAN,  SON OF GODZILLA, [...]

Last month, we mentioned the problem with the home video release of LET THE RIGHT ONE IN, which substituted some dumbed down subtitles on the DVD instead of the more accurate subtitling of the theatrical prints. A yew days ago, I happened to notice that the film was available on Netflix Instant Viewing, so I [...]

The remake of THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL comes out on home video this week, and one of the nice features of the 3-disc Blu-ray set is that the third disc contains the 1951 original, widely regarded as one of the greatest science fiction flms ever made (a reputation in no way threatened by [...]

The Vault of Horror objects to Time-Warner Cable’s recent decision to drop FEARnet’s on-demand service. Brian Solomon notes that the denise of Monster HD began in a similar fashion, with the channel being dropped by one provider at a time until nothing was left. Solomon exorts angered fans to speak up, suggesting they dial 1-877-FEAR-247 [...]

A couple days ago we offered up free viewing of 20,000 MILLION MILES TO EARTH. Now, with ALIEN TRESPASS opening in theatres today, it seems like a good time to offer INVADERS FROM MARS. ALIEN TRESPASS, of course, is a spoof of old sci-fi films about aliens invading Earth, so why not return to the [...]

20,000 MILLION MILES TO EARTH (1957) is one of the early black-and-white science fiction films from Ray Harryhausen, the special effects expert who used stop-motion techniques to bring numerous monsters to life throughout his long career. Thanks to Google Video, you can watch this classic example of his work for free. It’s all about an [...]

Sci Fi Japan points us to Crackle, a new online “multi-platform next-generation video entertainment network” that is loaded with movies, television episodes, and original videos. Because Crackle is a division of Sony Pictures Entertainment Company, the have a load of titles from Columbia-TriStar, which owns the distribution rights to Toho’s giant monster movies. The current feature movie [...]

This dismal direct-to-video anthology of nine short subjects is almost guaranteed to provoke howls of outrage from disappointed viewers demanding their money back. The low-budget production values show a certain technical competence, suggesting reasonably well-made student films, but the stories are so flimsy and the pay-offs so weak your reaction is less likely to be [...]