Mae Murray / Contributor 31/08/2021 Mae Murray / Contributor 31/08/2021

[Book Review] My Heart Is a Chainsaw (2021)

Stephen Graham Jones made a big splash last year when his award-winning novel The Only Good Indians hit shelves…

Tiffany Aleman / Contributor 30/08/2021 Tiffany Aleman / Contributor 30/08/2021

[Film Review] Night of the Living Dicks at the Fantasia International Film Festival is a Fun Horror-Comedy About Misogyny

There's a lot of dicks in the Night of the Living Dicks (2021). They come in all shades and sizes: the harassers, the hateful, the patriarchal, the underhanded, the blowhards…

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

[Film Review] Hall (2020)

Hall (2020) follows a group of strangers in a hotel, all with their own lives and problems, taken unawares by an unnamed virus…

Jerry Sampson / Senior Contributor 30/08/2021 Jerry Sampson / Senior Contributor 30/08/2021

[Film Review] Demonic (2021)

Neill Blomkamp crashed onto the scene with his 2009 sci-fi horror film District 9, a found footage style dystopic nightmare that examined the effects of xenophobia and societal disintegration through insectoid invasion…

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…

Lakkaya Palmer / Contributor 28/08/2021 Lakkaya Palmer / Contributor 28/08/2021

[Book Review] Tomie (1987)

Manga artist Junji Ito, one of the pioneers of modern horror in manga, kick started his career with Tomie…

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…

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…

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

[Film Review] Jakob’s Wife (2021)

Anne Fedder (Barbara Crampton) simmers in a pew, quietly disdainful of her husband. When Reverend Jakob Fedder (Larry Fessenden) proselytizes, “He who loves his wife loves himself,” it reeks of hypocrisy…

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…

Liz DeGregorio / Senior Contributor 26/08/2021 Liz DeGregorio / Senior Contributor 26/08/2021

[Film Review] Don't Look Now (1973)

Some of the most memorable modern horror movies (including À l'intérieur, The Invitation, The Babadook and Hereditary) bloom around characters' grief. ..

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…

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