By contributor Adam Page I’ll start at the service station, as that’s where everything starts and everything ends, and because there’s no more honest place in the Western world than a motorway rest stop in high summer. You know the kind; somewhere in the south of France, which sounds romantic until you’re there: a big […]
By Contributing Writer Adam Page A lot of spoilers ahead, so tread carefully… I’ll start by being completely honest and telling you that the first time I watched Don’t Look Now, I thought I’d worked it out. I was young and very pleased with myself; the sort of viewer who sits through a movie with […]
By contributor Adam Page This was the first time I understood that a movie could get inside you. Not just frighten you, as any hack with a violin section and a cat in the cupboard can make you jump. The Exorcist gets in, sets up camp, and starts rearranging the furniture of your soul without […]
By contributing writer Adam Page Every now and then, a piece of art is created that the machinery simply hasn’t been designed to process. It isn’t banned, exactly, as banning at least implies someone in a position of authority looked at the thing and made a decision. What happened here was worse. This was a […]
A brief preface… When I was writing my book on witchcraft in horror cinema, Celluloid Hex, I originally wrote an additional chapter on a fairly-obscure Italian occult horror mash-up, Baba Yaga (1973). It was a lot of fun to research, and yielded a lot of interesting material, but when I was doing layouts for Celluloid […]
(And yes, I can rightly say that, because I live in York…) In many respects, it’s strange that a city like York – professedly the most haunted city in England – went for so many years without hosting a horror film festival of its own, but since 2020, Dead Northern has been steadily growing in […]
In a day and age when we’re being told that no one wants to go and watch films at the cinema anymore, it’s heartening that here in the UK – and of course, elsewhere in the world – independent film festivals persist in springing up and being (whisper it) a popular, fun way to spend […]
By contributing writer Adam Page I’m going to start this with a confession, as that’s really what this movie is about; confession and the horrible possibility that confession changes nothing. I’ve seen Martyrs more times than is probably good for my, or anyone’s, mental health, and each time I left the cinema, or more often […]
In 1983, the Director Of Public Prosecutions published its first list of movies which were tagged with the tabloid-friendly label of Video Nasties. These cinematic outliers were deemed to have to power to deprave and corrupt and, if the title in question had been successfully prosecuted under the Obscene Publications Act of 1959, any dealer […]
In 1983, the Director Of Public Prosecutions published its first list of movies which were tagged with the tabloid-friendly label of Video Nasties. These cinematic outliers were deemed to have to power to deprave and corrupt and, if the title in question had been successfully prosecuted under the Obscene Publications Act of 1959, any dealer […]
In 1983, the Director Of Public Prosecutions published its first list of movies which were tagged with the tabloid-friendly label of Video Nasties. These cinematic outliers were deemed to have to power to deprave and corrupt and, if the title in question had been successfully prosecuted under the Obscene Publications Act of 1959, any dealer […]