Ariel Powers-Schaub / Brand Manager & Admin Assistant 30/08/2021 Ariel Powers-Schaub / Brand Manager & Admin Assistant 30/08/2021

[Editorial] Horrible Imaginings Film Festival interview with Jay Kay

In anticipation of the Horrible Imaginings Film Festival (HIFF), I had the opportunity to chat with Jay Kay, filmmaker and member of the fest’s operations team…

Jerry Sampson / Senior Contributor 28/08/2021 Jerry Sampson / Senior Contributor 28/08/2021

[Editorial] Extreme Horror Films Most Likely to Haunt Your Dreams

It’s downright infuriating to hear people blather on about how a film can – nay will – cause someone to go off the deep end…

Ariel Baska / Contributor 27/08/2021 Ariel Baska / Contributor 27/08/2021

[Editorial] Disability and Horror: A Quiet Place Part 2 (2021)

I eagerly looked forward to this follow-up from John Krasinski’s A Quiet Place, which introduced a different vision of the apocalypse…

Melissa Cox / Contributor 27/08/2021 Melissa Cox / Contributor 27/08/2021

[Editorial] American Psycho (2000)

Mary Harron’s American Psycho has had a strange and convoluted path to its current position as a lauded part of the American horror canon…

Marisa Mercurio / Contributor 26/08/2021 Marisa Mercurio / Contributor 26/08/2021

[Editorial] Interview with Barbara Crampton about Jakob’s Wife

I sat down with Barbara Crampton to chat about female friendship, vampirism as life after death, and sexuality on screen in Jakob’s Wife…

Kim Morrison / Senior Contributor 26/08/2021 Kim Morrison / Senior Contributor 26/08/2021

[Mother of Fears] This House Needs a Family in We Are Still Here

In We Are Still Here (2015), we are plunged right into the middle of Anne’s grief just a couple of months after losing her son, Bobby, in a car crash…

Jessica Scott / Contributor 25/08/2021 Jessica Scott / Contributor 25/08/2021

[Editorial] You Can Hear Me: Navigating the Aural Gaze in Carnival of Souls (1962)

When engaging critically with a film, we often talk about its gaze. Film is, after all, a visual medium, and how we look at the objects and characters on the screen shapes our relationship with the story…

Caitlyn Downs / Contributor 24/08/2021 Caitlyn Downs / Contributor 24/08/2021

[Editorial] “How do girls know how to do that?”: Female Adaptation and Evolution in Spring (2014) Part 1

The time spent under lockdown due to the pandemic has meant audiences often turned to films and television for comfort, escapism or even challenge…

Melissa Cox / Contributor 20/08/2021 Melissa Cox / Contributor 20/08/2021

[Editorial] 20 Years Later: The Others (2001)

Released 20 years ago in 2001, Alejandro Amenábar’s The Others was part of a short cycle of slow, supernatural horror films with twists…

Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana / Senior Contributor 16/08/2021 Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana / Senior Contributor 16/08/2021

[Editorial] Five Films About Necrophilia That You May Love To Death

Necrophilia, aka, the sexual attraction towards dead bodies, or a sexual act involving dead bodies is probably one of the biggest taboos not only in real life…

Ariel Powers-Schaub / Brand Manager & Admin Assistant 13/08/2021 Ariel Powers-Schaub / Brand Manager & Admin Assistant 13/08/2021

[Editorial] 10 Years Later: The Cabin in the Woods (2011)

A meta-slasher-comedy that executes being scary, funny and thoughtful, and manages to both reward horror fans for their insider knowledge…

Ariel Baska / Contributor 12/08/2021 Ariel Baska / Contributor 12/08/2021

[Editorial] Disability and Horror: Don’t Breathe (2016)

Fede Alvarez’s Don’t Breathe was a break-out indie horror hit upon its release in 2016, a fact somewhat remarkable given its premise, an old blind vet who is both victim and villain defending his home from good-looking burglars…

Kelly Gredner / Contributor 10/08/2021 Kelly Gredner / Contributor 10/08/2021

[Editorial] Medusa’s Man: Examining Brad in Teeth (2007)

Teeth (2007) is a refreshing coming of age tale starring the underrated Jess Weixler as the virginal Dawn who has been cursed (or blessed, based on your perceptions) with the folkloric vagina dentata…

Alix Turner / Contributor 07/08/2021 Alix Turner / Contributor 07/08/2021

[Editorial] Director Julien Maury Talks All Things Kandisha

Having watched and reviewed Kandisha recently, it was a real pleasure and privilege to talk to Julien Maury, one of the minds behind the film…

Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana / Senior Contributor 03/08/2021 Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana / Senior Contributor 03/08/2021

[Editorial] North Bend Film Festival 2021

This year’s North Bend Film Festival brought the fantastical, eclectic and surreal to the big screen and it’s audiences…

Kim Morrison / Senior Contributor 03/08/2021 Kim Morrison / Senior Contributor 03/08/2021

[Editorial] Sorority Sister and Seasonal Slayings-Comparing Black Christmas (1974, 2006 and 2019)

While slashers are commonplace in the horror genre now, back in the ‘70s the sub-genre was on the brink of an explosion…

Elizabeth Bishop / Events (Midlands) & Social Media 31/07/2021 Elizabeth Bishop / Events (Midlands) & Social Media 31/07/2021

[Editorial] Preview: Fantasia International Film Festival 2021

Quentin Tarantino dubs it “the most important and prestigious genre film festival in the world” and Guillermo Del Toro calls it “a shrine”

Ariel Baska / Contributor 27/07/2021 Ariel Baska / Contributor 27/07/2021

[Editorial] Disability and Horror: Introduction

Within the world of horror films, disability representation has had a fraught history, but one I’ve paid careful attention to all my life. I was born with a rare disease that took half my hearing, half my vision, and half my face…

Lakkaya Palmer / Contributor 27/07/2021 Lakkaya Palmer / Contributor 27/07/2021

[Editorial] Top 10 British Horror Films

One of the only ‘historic’ films on the list occurs in eighteenth century, rural England. Fearing their community has been taken over by witchcraft…

Sam Vargas / Contributor 26/07/2021 Sam Vargas / Contributor 26/07/2021

[Editorial] Director Daeil Kim Talks Capturing American Culture

To those living outside of the United States, the looming threat of constant mass shootings may parallel the fear felt while watching a modern day horror film…

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