Elizabeth Bishop / Events (Midlands) & Social Media 04/04/2023 Elizabeth Bishop / Events (Midlands) & Social Media 04/04/2023

[Editorial] 9 Modern Horror Characters Who Deserved Better

Whether it's taking one for the team to distract the killers, being used as leverage, or making a noble self-sacrifice - it's often the case that the nicest of the nice guys do, in fact, finish last.

Zoë Rose Smith / Editor-in-Chief 02/04/2023 Zoë Rose Smith / Editor-in-Chief 02/04/2023

[Editorial] Editor’s Note: Puberty, But Make it Horror

Someone once told me that they were first introduced to horror when they watched Tobe Hooper’s classic The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, at the age of four!

Val Pullin / Contributor 01/04/2023 Val Pullin / Contributor 01/04/2023

[Editorial] Desire and Identity in Possession (1981)

My first reaction to the title of Possession was to assume that this will be an occult film, maybe along the lines of The Exorcist.

Caitlyn Downs / Contributor 31/03/2023 Caitlyn Downs / Contributor 31/03/2023

[Editorial] I’ve Never Been a Muse Before…’ Female Agency in Sightseers (2012)

The film follows Tina as she leaves her mother, Carol (Eileen Davies) behind to embark on an ‘erotic odyssey’ with her new boyfriend Chris (Steve Oram)

Kitty Hurst / Contributor 30/03/2023 Kitty Hurst / Contributor 30/03/2023

[Film Review] The Falling (2014)

In The Falling, writer/director Carol Morley further explores ideas formed in her 2006 short film Madness of the Dance

Vannah Taylor / Contributor 29/03/2023 Vannah Taylor / Contributor 29/03/2023

[Editorial] Is Rape Revenge Dead?

One of the most controversial subjects in horror has continued to return to the screen time and time again.

Sarah Miles / Events (London) & Contributor 28/03/2023 Sarah Miles / Events (London) & Contributor 28/03/2023

[Event Review] Heathers The Musical

This recorded performance of Heathers: The Musical from London’s The Other Palace will show for one night only in cinemas on 28th March bringing the show back to the big screen and making for some Big Fun as an experience, but with some variations that might be jarring for hardcore fans of the original.

Melissa Cox / Contributor 28/03/2023 Melissa Cox / Contributor 28/03/2023

[Editorial] Good For Her Shorts

“Good for her” horror is a term that’s sprung up in recent years to describe a certain type of revenge movie.

Rebecca McCallum / Contributor 28/03/2023 Rebecca McCallum / Contributor 28/03/2023

[Film Review] Fredheads the Documentary (2022)

I believe there is a Fredhead inside all of us and for fans of the Nightmare on Elm Street series..

Sarah Miles / Events (London) & Contributor 27/03/2023 Sarah Miles / Events (London) & Contributor 27/03/2023

[Film Review] Ox Head Village (2022)

Kanon is an average girl living her life when one day her friend Ren shows her a video of three girls who went into a supposedly haunted location, one of whom went missing

Kim Morrison / Senior Contributor 26/03/2023 Kim Morrison / Senior Contributor 26/03/2023

[Mother of Fears] The Search for True Love in Maleficent

Maleficent (2014) may be a live-action Disney movie, but it also has the makings of an ideal gateway horror movie.

Zoë Rose Smith / Editor-in-Chief 25/03/2023 Zoë Rose Smith / Editor-in-Chief 25/03/2023

[Ghouls Podcast] Psychotic Women in Horror with Zoë Rose Smith & Mary Wild

In March we exploring the topic of women in horror, not only because we focus on looking at horror through the female, female-identifying & non-binary lense, but also because it’s officially Women in Horror Month! So for that reason, our theme is ‘Good For Her’ horror, and anything that might feature complex, complicated and resonating women characters.

Laurence Boag-Matthews / Contributor 24/03/2023 Laurence Boag-Matthews / Contributor 24/03/2023

[Editorial] How Repulsion (1965) Interacts with the Good for Her Genre

When I first watched Repulsion (1965) I found it to be a mixture of fascinating, horrifying, refreshing, and confusing.

Courtney Mills / Contributor 23/03/2023 Courtney Mills / Contributor 23/03/2023

[Film Review] Scream 5 (2022)

25 years after the hit classic slasher film, Ghostface returns to torment the town of Woodsboro once again in a gruesome, gory bloodbath.

Iona Walling-Smith / Events Manager (London) 22/03/2023 Iona Walling-Smith / Events Manager (London) 22/03/2023

[Editorial] Creature Features: Best 15 Horror Films with Animals

Throughout the horror genre, animals are used as a tool for fear (and occasionally humour), some more effectively than others

Sophie Raine / Contributor 21/03/2023 Sophie Raine / Contributor 21/03/2023

[Film Review] Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon (2006)

The self-conscious horror film, i.e. the horror film about horror films, is something we have seen time and time again

Kat Hughes / Contributor 20/03/2023 Kat Hughes / Contributor 20/03/2023

[Film Review] Lullaby (2022)

Written by duo Alex Greenfield and Ben Powell, Lullaby stars Oona Chaplin as Rachel, a new mother, who unknowingly summons Lilith after singing a song from an old book.

Zoë Rose Smith / Editor-in-Chief 19/03/2023 Zoë Rose Smith / Editor-in-Chief 19/03/2023

[Editorial] 9 Frightening, Ferocious and Dangerous Women in Horror

So to celebrate seeing more frightening, ferocious and dangerous villains on screen, I’m looking at some of the ones that make my skin crawl.

Natasha O'Neill / Contributor 19/03/2023 Natasha O'Neill / Contributor 19/03/2023

[Editorial] The Extremes of Motherhood

Depictions of mothers in horror vary but when it comes to the more extreme and disturbing side of the genre however, this is when the role of the mother is shown in a different way as the following examples show.

Iona Walling-Smith / Events Manager (London) 17/03/2023 Iona Walling-Smith / Events Manager (London) 17/03/2023

[Film Review] Pearl (2022)

Ti West has once again gifted us with a film that harks back to a very specific period of iconic cinema with Pearl