Hannah Ogilvie / Contributor 07/09/2021 Hannah Ogilvie / Contributor 07/09/2021

[Editorial] Fat as a Death Sentence in Horror

Trigger warning of fat-phobia. I use the word “fat” as a descriptor rather than a derogatory term.

Alix Turner / Contributor 06/09/2021 Alix Turner / Contributor 06/09/2021

[Film Review] Nightdrive (2021)

Ever since Ida Lupino’s The Hitch-Hiker, films have taught us over the years that getting into a car with a stranger is a bad idea…

Elizabeth Bishop / Events (Midlands) & Social Media 06/09/2021 Elizabeth Bishop / Events (Midlands) & Social Media 06/09/2021

[Film Review] Fantasia Film Festival 2021 - #Blue_Whale

In 2015, the Blue Whale Challenge became worldwide news when a string of young suicides were linked to the online game…

Liz DeGregorio / Senior Contributor 06/09/2021 Liz DeGregorio / Senior Contributor 06/09/2021

[Book Review] Beyond the Pale Motel (2014)

Francesca Lia Block's books are always a mix of light and dark, magic and brutality. Best known for her Weetzie Bat young adult series, her work often illuminates both the grimness and glitter of Los Angeles…

Jerry Sampson / Senior Contributor 06/09/2021 Jerry Sampson / Senior Contributor 06/09/2021

[Film Review] Bloodthirsty (2020)

The independent horror scene is rife with new concepts and explorations of old lore, from vampires to werewolves…

Elizabeth Bishop / Events (Midlands) & Social Media 02/09/2021 Elizabeth Bishop / Events (Midlands) & Social Media 02/09/2021

[Film Review] Lake Mungo (2008)

The Book of Horror: The Anatomy of Fear in Film by Matt Glasby picked out Lake Mungo as one of the scariest movies ever…

Alix Turner / Contributor 02/09/2021 Alix Turner / Contributor 02/09/2021

[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…

Ariel Powers-Schaub / Brand Manager & Admin Assistant 31/08/2021 Ariel Powers-Schaub / Brand Manager & Admin Assistant 31/08/2021

[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…

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. ..

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