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…

Elizabeth Bishop / Events (Midlands) & Social Media 24/08/2021 Elizabeth Bishop / Events (Midlands) & Social Media 24/08/2021

[Film Review] Fantasia Film Festival 2021 - The Last Thing Mary Saw

Mary (Stefanie Scott) and Eleanor (Isabelle Fuhrman) are young and in love. Both beautiful, enigmatic, intelligent women… and therein lies the problem…

Elizabeth Bishop / Events (Midlands) & Social Media 24/08/2021 Elizabeth Bishop / Events (Midlands) & Social Media 24/08/2021

[Film Review] Fantasia Film Festival 2021 - Midnight

When discussing foreign horror/thrillers, South Korea is almost instantly most genre-fans first thought. In the last 20 years, they have arguably produced some of the greatest…

Mae Murray / Contributor 24/08/2021 Mae Murray / Contributor 24/08/2021

[Book Review] Velvet Was the Night (2021)

Velvet Was the Night by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Mexican Gothic) transports readers to Mexico City on June 10, 1971, the day of the Corpus Christi Massacre…

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…

Liz DeGregorio / Senior Contributor 19/08/2021 Liz DeGregorio / Senior Contributor 19/08/2021

[Book Review] Tinfoil Butterfly (2019)

Emma is on a mission to see the Badlands, a mountainous stretch of rocky terrain in South Dakota. Along the way, she must contend with both murderous strangers and the ghosts of her own past…

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…

Lakkaya Palmer / Contributor 14/08/2021 Lakkaya Palmer / Contributor 14/08/2021

[Book Review] Love Sickness (2021)

Lovesickness is one of Junji Ito’s lesser-known titles - Tomie and Uzamaki are the most famous - but Lovesickness certainly rivals them in terms of storytelling…

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…

Ariel Powers-Schaub / Brand Manager & Admin Assistant 10/08/2021 Ariel Powers-Schaub / Brand Manager & Admin Assistant 10/08/2021

[Film Review] Bleed With Me (2020)

How does it feel to be in a position to help others? How does it feel when you need to accept help?

Liz DeGregorio / Senior Contributor 09/08/2021 Liz DeGregorio / Senior Contributor 09/08/2021

[Film Review] False Positive (2021)

American comedian and actress Ilana Glazer is best known as the co-creator of Broad City, a web series that grew into a popular American comedy…

Zoë Rose Smith / Editor-in-Chief 08/08/2021 Zoë Rose Smith / Editor-in-Chief 08/08/2021

[Film Review] Sundance Film Festival 2021 - Censor

The debate surrounding censorship has been prominent, relevant and frankly always notoriously difficult, especially when looking at censorship through the lens of the horror film…

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…

Jenn Adams / Contributor 07/08/2021 Jenn Adams / Contributor 07/08/2021

[Film Review] A Good Woman is Hard to Find (2019)

Sarah (Sarah Bolger) is a grieving widow struggling to raise her two young children in the wake of her husband’s murder…

Ariel Powers-Schaub / Brand Manager & Admin Assistant 06/08/2021 Ariel Powers-Schaub / Brand Manager & Admin Assistant 06/08/2021

[Film Review] The Cured (2017)

“For years, the Maze virus spread across Europe, causing a violent psychosis in the infected. While most of the continent managed to control the contagion, the virus devastated Ireland…