Midsommar – Review Katy Moon July 9, 2019 Reviews If anyone was worried that burgeoning horror auteur Ari Aster was going to mellow out after his disturbing debut, you can sleep easy. Aster’s latest (which shares more than a passing resemblance to...
Can Horror Franchises Keep the Scares Fresh? Katy Moon July 9, 2019 Analysis, Features, Opinion Since the early days of horror cinema, franchising has had the tendency to dull the sharper edges of our favourite horror icons. Twenty-five years after they emerged from the shadows, Universal’s stable of...
Patrick Wilson: The Everyman Scream King Katy Moon July 8, 2019 Analysis, Features, Spotlight There is a moment in The Conjuring 2 in which Patrick Wilson's ghostbuster Ed Warren, hoping to cheer a group of frightened kids, serenades them all with croony Elvis song 'Can’t Help Falling in Love'. With...
Child’s Play – Review Jack King June 21, 2019 Reviews "A white guy murdered in the middle of a watermelon patch. Poetic." This isn't a line from Jordan Peele's latest horror-infused racial satire Us, nor does it come from the atrocious reboot of Shaft. This is a...
Brightburn – Review Phil W. Bayles June 20, 2019 Reviews There’s a whole subgenre of superhero comics that came about from asking ‘what if?’ As in, what if Batman was a vampire? What if the Avengers had been around in Elizabethan England? Now David...
Pet Sematary – Review Stephanie Watts April 5, 2019 Reviews After the success of It, it’s no wonder studios are scrambling to re-adapt more of Stephen King’s work. Pet Sematary has enough gruesome, dark content to potentially have audiences hiding under the covers...
Us – Review Alex Goldstein March 21, 2019 Reviews In compelling horror-thriller Us, Jordan Peele turns his forensic eye on the ways in which humans are their own worst enemies – packing in home invasion, zombies and high concept sci-fi tropes on the...
Escape Room – Review Sophie Maxwell February 2, 2019 Reviews In recent years, horror and thriller fans have seen a wave of unusual and original films, confronting vital political themes (Get Out, 2017) and kicking back against tired generic tropes (Hereditary, 2018)....
The Most Dangerous Games: Cinema’s Best Puzzles Sophie Maxwell January 29, 2019 Analysis, Features, Top 10 For some, the thought of being trapped in a small room with a limited time to solve puzzles and escape is sheer nightmare fuel. Maybe your boss thinks such activities are the perfect team-building exercises....
The Thing – Horror Cinema’s Greatest Remake Katy Moon November 13, 2018 Analysis, Features, Love Letter, Nostalgia, One Off Creating horror remakes is often a thankless job. Taking familiar intellectual properties with built-in audience recognition and repackaging them with a little more sex or violence than the originals were...
Slaughterhouse Rulez – Review James Andrews November 2, 2018 Reviews A British comedy horror with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost in? (And the debut for their production firm Stolen Picture?) The Shaun of the Dead comparisons are inevitable, but Slaughterhouse Rulez is a different...
Ghoul Britannia: The Best British Horror Movies Katy Moon October 30, 2018 Analysis, Features, Top 10 It has never been a better time to be a fan of scary movies. With Get Out, A Quiet Place, The Conjuring cinematic universe and the latest Halloween setting the box office alight, it is clear that we're hungry...
The Final Girl: How Crimson Peak Became a Victorian Slasher Movie David Brake October 25, 2018 Analysis, Features, One Off Buffy: Everyone gets horribly killed except the blonde girl in the nightie, who finally kills the monster with a machete. But it's not really dead. Jennifer: Oh, my God, is that true? Buffy: Probably. What...
In Fabric – Review Rhys Handley October 18, 2018 Reviews This review was originally published as part of our London Film Festival coverage on 18/10/2018. The red dress of Peter Strickland’s In Fabric could represent anything: the toxic lure of consumerism, the...
What’s the Meta? How The Cabin in the Woods Subverted Horror James Andrews October 11, 2018 Features, Love Letter, Nostalgia Screenwriter extraordinaire Drew Goddard (Cloverfield, World War Z, The Martian) is back with his second feature as a director, Bad Times at the El Royale. His latest finds a group of strangers unravelling a...