Mat Colegate

From Death Race 2000 to GTA: Celebrating Half a Century of Violent Future Sports

To celebrate the 50th birthday of Death Race 2000, Mat Colegate charts a multimedia genre which would spawn Mad Max, Alita: Battle Angel and Grand Theft Auto, and makes more sense today than it did in 1975

This Land is Death: Tobe Hooper’s Texas Chain Saw Massacre at 50

On the 50th anniversary of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Mat Colegate pushes back against the common consensus that its director Tobe Hooper spent the rest of his career merely failing to escape its shadow, and argues that he deserves just as much acclaim for the misunderstood filmography that was to follow

Organic Intelligence XXXVI: Under-the-Radar Italian Pulp Film Soundtracks

In this month’s antidote to the algorithm, Mat Colegate goes deep into the bloody realm of Italian schlock scores – Goblin! Libra! Daniele Pattuchi! The soundtrack to that film about PCP maddened animals attacking Frankfurt!

Raising The Dead: An Interview With The American Genre Film Archive

The American Genre Film Archive exhumes obscure genre movies from the past to restore and release them for posterity – Mat Colegate interviews Joe Ziemba about the process of choosing what to keep

Warping The Landscape: Laurie Anderson’s Big Science Revisited

40 years on from Big Science, Mat Colegate recalls his teenage misunderstanding that Laurie Anderson was a West Country folk singer, and the discovery of a record that only rewarded that mistake

What Is Best In Life: Why Sword And Sorcery Films Deserve Your Respect

Long derided as fantasy's young, dumb, full of cum idiot brother, at its best, this supercharged, supernatural cinema is sublime

Curiosity, Community, Cacophony: Helm’s Baker’s Dozen

Helm, aka Luke Younger, takes us through the 13 records that shaped his prolific career, from a teenage love of Manic Street Preachers and Therapy? to chance encounters with Bob Tilton and John Luther Adams

Haunted House: 40 Years Of ‘The Changeling’

Peter Medak's seminal horror film The Changeling turns 40 this year. With the anniversary comes an occasion to reappraise the film's influential subversion of a genre, finds Mat Colegate

The Star Wars Of Horror: 30 Years Of Nightbreed

Clive Barker changed the face of horror in a curious way with the release of Nightbreed in 1990. From Guillermo Del Toro to Alejandro Jodorowsky, his fanbase remains strong, finds Mat Colegate

2019 In Film: Do Things Still Go Bump In The Night?

With more Kubrick, Myers, and King than ever before, the landscape of horror cinema is moving forward in circles – but where do we go beyond 2019? Mat Colegate reflects on the year behind us

Why 2018 Could Be The Best Year For Horror So Far…

Horror buff Mat Colegate asks if 2018 has simply been a landmark year for horror movies... or if it can actually be regarded the best year so far

Playing Possum: Matthew Holness’s Other Dark Places

Mat Colegate interviews Matthew Holness about his film debut Possum, out this weekend. Learn about how Holness was introduced to the world of horror fiction, the funniness of failure, and then click through to hear Holness talk about his favourite examples of the genre

Chaotic Good: Lower Slaughter Interviewed

Sinead and Barney from high-octane UK choogle unit Lower Slaughter talk to Mat Colegate about their debut album and the roll of the D20...

LISTEN: Gum Takes Tooth Mix & New LP

London psychedelic dance unit announce new album and discuss this weekend's show at the Lex. Band photo by Marie Valognes

Pain & Pleasure, Indivisible: Stephen Thrower Of Coil On Clive Barker

With Clive Barker's Hellraiser celebrating its 30th anniversary this month, Mat Colegate talks to Coil and Cylobe member and horror afficionado Stephen Thrower about Barker's legacy, and the unreleased Coil soundtrack to Hellraiser

‘Ave A Go If You Think You’re Dekkard Enough: Blade Runner 2049 Reviewed

Dennis Villeneuve's sequel to Ridley Scott's sci-fi masterpiece is in cinemas now, Mat Colegate takes a look for The Quietus

Time For Acting: Oneohtrix Point Never On The Good Time Soundtrack

Daniel Lopatin - AKA Oneohtrix Point Never - talks to Mat Colegate about his award winning soundtrack to the Safdie Brother's grimy New York crime thriller Good Time.

Two Blokes Talk About Death: Director David Lowery On A Ghost Story

Director David Lowery's latest film, A Ghost Story, is a subtle and moving examination of all the big questions. Mat Colegate sat down to ask him some slightly smaller ones.

Mat Colegate On Man Forever’s Play What They Want

In John Colpitts' latest outing as Man Forever, Mat Colegate finds a record invoking a fading – or altogether faded – vision of bohemian New York, but one which does so through power and innovation, rather than nostalgia

Crawl Of The Wild: Free Fire Reviewed

Mat Colegate reviews director Ben Wheatley's latest, the action comedy Free Fire

Into The Fire: Rollo Smallcombe On Scoring Clouzot’s Inferno

This weekend The Barbican is presenting a specially re-edited and re-scored presentation of Henri-Georges Clouzot's great lost film The Inferno. We talk to Rollo Smallcombe about the challenges of re-framing one of the great missing movies

INTERVIEW: Adam Curtis At The BBC Arabic Festival

The film maker offers The Quietus details of his involvement with The BBC Arabic Film Festival

WATCH: An Exclusive Clip From Paul Verhoeven’s Elle

Understand The Feeling: Fenriz Of Darkthrone’s Favourite House Records

As well as being the core of black metal masters Darkthrone, Fenriz is a massive house head and regular DJ. Here, he guides us through the 13 records that are never out of his crate

Director Alice Lowe Picks Her Favourite Horror Films For Shudder

LIVE REPORT: Semibreve Festival

At the sixth edition of Portugal's Semibreve — with performances from Laurel Halo, Kara-Lis Coverdale and Jonathan Saldanha — Mat Colegate finds a festival not without its cathartic frenzy, but with a unique and refined focus, inviting its audience to really experience what's in front of them

Interview: HHY On Tunnel Vision And Semibreve Festival

The Saddest Sound In The World: Incubate Festival Reviewed

Mat Colegate travels to Tilburg for the 2016 edition of the famously eclectic Incubate festival and reflects on the varieties and mysteries of the human voice

Satanic Blahnik: The Neon Demon Reviewed

Mat Colegate reviews Nicolas Winding Refn's curdled fashion world fantasy, The Neon Demon

PLAYLIST: Meatpacking District

Mat Colegate selects a number of classics and new favourites for the Meatpacking District night ahead of its one-year anniversary this Saturday at the Redchurch Brewery

KINOTEKA Polish Film Festival This Month

Event showcases best of Polish cinema new and old; screening of 1978 classic The Shout set for tomorrow

Zack’s The Way To Screw It: Batman V Superman Dawn Of Justice Reviewed

Mat Colegate is completely unprepared for the madness of Zack Snyder's kickstart to the DC cinematic universe