50 Years of Night of the Living Dead Katy Moon October 1, 2018 Analysis, Close-Up, Features You’re trapped in a secluded farmhouse, surrounded by a growing horde of the ravenous undead. Do you hole up in the secure but inescapable cellar? Or do you stay above ground and try to fortify the...
The Secret of Marrowbone – Review James Andrews July 16, 2018 Reviews In the wake of the sensational Hereditary, another psychological horror about a tormented, seemingly cursed family was always going to struggle in comparison. And while it ultimately goes in a wholly different...
Hereditary – Review Stephanie Watts June 15, 2018 Reviews This film was previously reviewed on 31/05/2018 as part of Sundance London 2018. The confident, lean and mean directorial horror debut from Ari Aster, Hereditary, sees a family turn in on itself in...
Hereditary – Sundance London 2018 Review Stephanie Watts May 31, 2018 Reviews The confident, lean and mean directorial horror debut from Ari Aster, Hereditary, sees a family turn in on itself in unimaginable ways. After the death of her mother, diorama artist Annie (Toni Collette) must...
Ghost Stories – Review James Andrews April 7, 2018 Reviews Based on the Olivier Award-nominated play, Ghost Stories is at once an old-fashioned British horror flick and yet very much not what you expect. The premise sees professional debunker Professor Phillip Goodman...
A Quiet Place – Review Stephanie Watts April 6, 2018 Reviews A Quiet Place is, believe it or not, a quiet movie (not for fans of bringing loud movie snacks to the cinema). Following a family surviving in a world overrun with monsters with highly sensitive hearing –...
A Love Letter To…Attack The Block Stephanie Watts March 20, 2018 Features, Love Letter, Nostalgia A concrete estate in London, a gang of teenagers roaming the streets, and…aliens from outer space? Yes, it’s the surprising sci-fi comedy Attack The Block, in which a group of inner city kids must defend...
Top 20 Films of 2017: #1 – Get Out Kambole Campbell December 31, 2017 Analysis, Features Spoilers ahead. This isn’t the best made film on the list. Just to get the acknowledgement out of the way early – Get Out is Jordan Peele’s first solo film as writer and director, and it occasionally...
American Horror Story: Stephen King’s It and Bigotry Cathy Brennan September 13, 2017 Analysis, Features, One Off In the run-up to the release of the latest Stephen King adaptation, It, Scott Wampler of Birth Movies Death would regularly upload a publicity still of Pennywise the Dancing Clown poking his head out of a...
It – Review James Andrews September 9, 2017 Reviews After the much-loved, yet much-feared, 1986 Stephen King source novel and classic 1990 TV miniseries, arguably the most famous work of coulrophobia-inducing fiction hits the big screen awash with hype. What a...
ORWAV’s Scariest Movie Moments Phil W. Bayles September 6, 2017 Analysis, Features, One Off Though audiences are most familiar with Pennywise the Dancing Clown, the eponymous monster in Stephen King's It actually takes on many forms, changing its shape to reflect the deepest fears of its victims....
It Comes at Night – Review Kambole Campbell July 9, 2017 Reviews Trey Edward Shults' second feature is one that comes from a place of deep anguish. As the director himself has previously pointed out, the film was made following the death of a relative, and the first thing...
Why Shaun of the Dead is Edgar Wright’s Best Film Sinead McCausland June 20, 2017 Analysis, Features, Opinion Fans often underestimate the staying power of Shaun of the Dead, the first of Edgar Wright's "Three Flavours Cornetto" trilogy. When held up against Wright's more recent films like Hot Fuzz, The World's End,...
Best Films Never Made #40: George A. Romero’s The Mummy Tom Bond June 6, 2017 Behind The Curtain, Best Films Never Made, Features The Mummy returns. Again and again. It was first created in 1932 by screenwriter John L. Balderston with Boris Karloff as the bandaged baddie; then reanimated in 1999 in a more blockbuster version directed by...
The Bye Bye Man – Review Alex Flood January 17, 2017 Reviews What is it with scary movies and Friday the 13th? Every year a glut of cheaply-made trash is dumped onto our screens in an attempt to cash in on the 'unluckiest day'. Take 2015's zombie flick Condemned....