Sunrise (2024)

A moody, atmospheric tale of retribution stained with blood and grief, Sunrise is a tense horror thriller overflowing with drama. Brought to you from Lionsgate, the same studio that gave us last year’s creepy crawling feature Cobweb, comes a distinctive, entertaining and sometimes ruthless take on vampires. Sunrise delivers action and tragedy in even doses […]

“Time is an abyss.” 40 years of Werner Herzog’s Nosferatu

They’ve been regularly made since the very first film of the kind in the 1920s, but perhaps the 1970s were particularly unusual for the sheer volume of vampire horror films which emerged. Many different varieties of vampire horror appeared, too: Hammer Studios toyed with classic stories and folklore to create their own lurid, luxuriant spin, […]

Lost Girls: the Phantasmagorical Cinema of Jean Rollin

I first encountered the cinema of Jean Rollin via the UK’s Redemption Films, whose founder, Nigel Wingrove, became good friends with Rollin over the years; the film company deserves far more awareness of the great service they did by bringing so many of these films into the common consciousness in the Nineties, making the films […]

Bram Stoker’s Dracula: a Retrospective

The vampire – at least as we used to know it – seems to have fallen out of favour in recent years. By no means has it disappeared, but certainly, as on-screen monsters go, it’s no longer in its ascendant. Terrific, spellbinding horrors continue to be made, sure, even if more often than not as […]