Welcome to Critical Hit’s 31 days of horror! It’s the month of spookiness, of frights and jump scares and we’re ready to celebrate! Over the decades, movies have managed to create eerie atmospheres, scenes of terror that can’t be contained within a single genre and we’re looking back at the films and the movie maniac moments that had us squirming in our seats. Starting today, with a look back at one of the most hideously horrifying scenes from one of the greatest action films of the 1980s…

Load up your prime directives, as no criminal is above the law of Robocop when the mechanised police officer returns to comic books in April.

Part man, part machine and all cop way back in 1987. Thirty years on, and Robocop is still a landmark movie. Director Peter Verhoeven was at his best here, crafting a tale of revenge and resurrection inside of a Hollywood spectacle that was satire mixed with explosions. You throw that story onto a cast of brilliant actors and a visual design that gave birth to a hero who was the living embodiment of law enforcement and Detroit’s reputation as Motor City, and the results spoke for themselves.

In the immortal words of  Sergeant Rasczak: “Come on you apes, you wanna live forever?” Paul Verhoeven’s 1997 satirical sci-fi war movie Starship Troopers may not have been a smash hit at the time, critical response was all over the place, but it’s certainly developed a cult following over the years. It’s a movie I’m definitely quite fond of, and …

Paul Verhoeven figured out why remakes of his films didn't fly.

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You’d think that today was Valentine’s Day given the number of romances that are hitting the big screen in one go. However, the big release of the week is more about bullets and broken limbs than broken hearts. RoboCop: Also screening at IMAX is this sci-fi actioner that reboots the RoboCop film franchise. Joel Kinnaman is good cop and family …

Robocop! A walking tank of justice, ready to apply cutting edge science to your face if you dare to break a prime directive! But what if Robocop was more than just a lean mean, law-enforcing machine? What if he was actually…Jesus? Last Updated: February 19, 2013