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…

Jerry Sampson / Senior Contributor 26/08/2021 Jerry Sampson / Senior Contributor 26/08/2021

[Film Review] Mosquito State (2020)

In the tradition of providing social commentary through horror cinema, director Filip Jan Rymsza tackles Wall Street and the U.S. financial crisis of 2008 through body horror and aural assault in the upcoming Shudder release Mosquito State…

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. ..

Rabia Sitabi / Contributor 25/08/2021 Rabia Sitabi / Contributor 25/08/2021

[Film Review] Fantasia Film Festival 2021 - Tokyo Revengers

Tokyo Revengers or Tōkyō Ribenjāzu (東京リベンジャーズ’) brings the newest craze in manga to the big screen in full-throated live-action…

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…

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…

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…

Sam Vargas / Contributor 13/08/2021 Sam Vargas / Contributor 13/08/2021

[Film Review] Midnight in the Switchgrass (2021)

While ghost stories, possessions, and acts of supernatural wrath might dominate the horror genre, there’s something especially chilling about films…

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…

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…

Ariel Baska / Contributor 06/08/2021 Ariel Baska / Contributor 06/08/2021

[Film Review] Mai-chan's Daily Life (まいちゃんの日常, Mai-chan no Nichijō)

Mai-chan no Nichijō, or Mai-chan’s Daily Life, the newest release from Tetrofilms, begins by looking more like a highly experimental…

Hannah Ogilvie / Contributor 05/08/2021 Hannah Ogilvie / Contributor 05/08/2021

[Film Review] The Forever Purge (2021)

I wonder if James DeMonaco realised he was building a horror franchise which will be a vehicle for representing the political, classist and racial tensions in the USA…

Kim Morrison / Senior Contributor 05/08/2021 Kim Morrison / Senior Contributor 05/08/2021

[TV Review] Inside No.9 (2014)

Unlike The League of Gentlemen and Psychoville, each episode of Inside No. 9 is a self-contained tale…

Zoë Rose Smith / Editor-in-Chief 05/08/2021 Zoë Rose Smith / Editor-in-Chief 05/08/2021

[Film Review] Debris Documentar (2003)

As a lover of extreme horror films, there are times when you must see past the merits of traditional filmmaking to look into the ‘extremity’ of what is being depicted on-screen…

Caitlyn Downs / Contributor 04/08/2021 Caitlyn Downs / Contributor 04/08/2021

[Film Review] Sadistic Intentions (2018)

A solid entry into the ‘horror hangout’ subgenre that takes interpersonal tensions and a love of metal to some very dark places.

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