STACK #143 Sept 2016

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Apocalypse by name and nature. X-MEN: APOCALYPSE

Release Date: 28/09/16 Format:

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Audio Commentary by Bryan Singer and Simon Kinberg Gag reel Easter Egg Image Gallery 12 Deleted/Extended scenes X-Men: Apocalypse Unearthed Documentary: - En Sabah Nur: Setting the Stage for Apocalypse - Clan of Akkaba: Apocalypse and His Horsemen - Answering the Call: Assembling the New X-Men Team - The End of Times: Creating a New Age of Apocalypse - Unlimited Powers: VFX, Stunts

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The biggest X-Men movie to date opens in Ancient Egypt, where we are introduced to the very first mutant, Apocalypse (Oscar Isaac), an all-powerful being with the ability to transfer his mind into a new body. Then it’s off to the 1980s to meet the younger incarnations of existing X-Men – including

Nightcrawler (Kodi Smit-McPhee), Cyclops (Tye Sheridan) and Jean Grey (Sophie Turner) – who together with the First Class gang must attempt to stop the recently awakened Apocalypse, whose intentions reflect his name. An interesting sideline involves Magneto (Michael Fassbender), who’s living as a family man in Poland, before a personal tragedy sees him reverting to his wicked ways and

predictably siding with the enemy. Look out, too, for a cameo from a favourite X-member. The mutants’ ongoing battle for tolerance and acceptance has always been at the heart of the franchise, but given the scale of destruction unleashed here (it’s not called Apocalypse for nothing), it won’t be long before the UN are regulating the X-Men just like their Avengers counterparts. SH (See page 34)

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X-Men: Days of Future Past

Amityville in England. THE CONJURING 2

Release Date: 28/09/16

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The Enfield Poltergeist: Living the Horror The Conjuring 2: Elevating the Genre Recording at Abbey Road The Haunted Stage Deleted Scenes The “Enfield poltergeist” incident drew multiple teams of investigators, and Maurice Grosse and Guy Lyon Playfair’s investigation was fictionalised in the television series The Enfield Haunting (2015). Some have claimed that the real Janet is a gifted ventriloquist and she admitted faking some events. She revealed that around two per cent of the haunting was phony during an interview with The Telegraph .

James Wan’s 2013 supernatural shocker became one of the highest grossing horror movies of all time, and this equally successful sequel reunites us with paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren (Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga) for another “true” tale from their files – the much documented case of the Enfield Poltergeist, which made

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Meanwhile Stateside, the Warrens have just wrapped up the Amityville case and Lorraine is being haunted by a demonic nun (that looks like Marilyn Manson) and premonitions of her husband’s death. Before long, the ghostbusting duo receive the call to look into “England’s own Amityville”. The Conjuring 2 marks Wan’s return to horror turf following Fast & Furious 7 , and fans of the original can expect all the requisite jump scares and malevolent entities – but no Annabelle this time. SH

headlines in London in 1977. Single mum Peggy Hodgson (Francis O’Connor) and her four children live in a rundown council house in North London that’s seemingly inhabited by the ghost of a former resident – an old geezer who died in the crusty brown armchair that sits in the corner of their living room. When neighbours and police officers witness the poltergeist activity that’s targeting 11-year- old Janet (Madison Wolfe), it becomes front-page news.

FURTHER VIEWING

The Amityville Horror

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