Tagged horror

It’s tough being a teenager. Dealing with your parents, bullies and the opposite sex are all stressful enough on their own. One issue most teenagers don’t struggle with is the urge to kill. John (Max...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VDvgL58h_Y A truly great parody is the one that doesn't require the audience to be familiar with any particular thing that it's mocking. It's why Airplane! remains one...

You know a film has really got under your skin when halfway through you notice one hand is numb from being clenched so tightly. You know it’s pushing you to the edge when you consider breaking your own rule...

There’s nothing wrong with ambiguity per se. In horror it can be a powerful tool with which to disarm and unsettle the audience. All we ask is that your plot makes some sense. Please. Gilles Marchand and...

Under the Shadow comes from a dark place. Firmly in the shade of the Cultural Revolution and deep into the Iran-Iraq War, the spectre of war and threat of tragedy looms large over what is, in essence, a...

It seems something is up with Detroit. First there was Jim Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive, then David Robert Mitchell’s It Follows; now Fede Alvarez’s supremely effective Don’t Breathe can join...

Who hasn't turned off a light and thought, if only for a split second, that they saw a silhouette out of the corner of their eye? It's an instantly relatable premise, but sadly Lights Out switches off for much...

Everyone has at least one film they saw as a child that has stuck with them ever since. In most cases it's because they brought you so much enjoyment (and you probably watched them far too many times). But in...

“Do sit down, Sergeant. Shocks are so much better absorbed with the knees bent.” Even now, 43 years after its release, shocks are something Robin Hardy's The Wicker Man certainly provides. Speaking...

It’s quite possible that The Conjuring 2 is the most sentimental horror film of recent years. The Conjuring films set out to create a horrifying experience without almost any bloodshed or death; the first...

https://vimeo.com/user21763231/thegoblinbaby From Ellen Ripley protecting Newt in Aliens to the relationship between an exasperated mother and her tearaway son in The Babadook, the maternal bond is...

Dr Hannibal Lecter is without doubt the most terrifying villain ever to grace the big screen. FACT. The AFI has voted him the Number One villain of the last 100 years, out-villaining even the murderous loner...

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When December hits, cinemas are annually awash with gushy rom-coms and nauseating morality tales, but with 2015 comes a breath of fresh, yet ghoulish air with the decidedly creepy Krampus. Combining...

https://vimeo.com/mdsnz/escargore Beheaded. Flambéed to death. Exposed to lethal amounts of radiation. These are just a few of the macabre fates of the stars in this short. But if you’ve overdone...