[Editorial] Interview with cast & crew of Night Drive (2019)
After reviewing the mischievous thriller Night Drive recently, I had the pleasure of interviewing the team involved…
[Editorial] “The Blood Ceiling”: Women in Horror and the Fight for Recognition Behind the Camera
Hannah Macpherson’s frustration grew as she sat in the lobby of Blumhouse Productions and took in the black and white photographs adorning the wall…
[Editorial] Consenting to Fear
As a horror fan, I opt into fear, and I am always chasing a good scare…
[Editorial] Horrible Imaginings Film Festival interview with Rabia Sitabi
Ahead of the Horrible Imaginings Film Festival (HIFF), I got to sit down with Project Director Rabia Sitabi and chat about the upcoming fest…
[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…
[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…
[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…
[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…
[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…
[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…
[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…
[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…
[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…
[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…
[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…
[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…
[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…
[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…
[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…
[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…
