By guest contributor Adam Page I want to start by addressing something that may seem like a ludicrous claim on its surface. I want to argue that Sam Neill, the charming New Zealander who played Alan Grant in Jurassic Park and whose default facial expression is a sort of warm, self-deprecating amusement, is arguably the […]
Editor’s note: please be aware that this special feature discusses Sinners and Beloved in detail, so be mindful of potential spoilers. Perhaps, on first pass, it might not feel like the most obvious move to write about both Ryan Cooglan’s smash hit horror Sinners and the more oblique, though no less devastating horrors of Toni […]
By guest contributor Adam Page Let’s talk about dread. That particular kind which doesn’t make a fuss slamming doors or leaping out from closets. This one seeps. A feeling you get rereading the fine print on a contract you’ve already signed. That sense, creeping up your spine at 2am when you realise the map you’re […]
By guest contributor Adam Page There is a very particular type of genius which gets buried alive by success, and Christopher Lee probably knew this better than most. For decades, if we thought of Christopher Lee, we thought of a cape, a set of fangs, and two puncture wounds on a trembling ingenue’s neck. Dracula. […]
By guest contributor Adam Page There is a certain kind of dread, and it’s one that has nothing to do with jump scares or monsters or chainsaws. It doesn’t announce itself; it quietly seeps in, until suddenly things are very wrong. Roger Corman knew this in 1963, probably by accident, the way most great things […]
Hard as it is to believe, today marks ten whole years since the very first post from Warped Perspective! By anyone’s reckoning, that’s a good stint: Warped Perspective was also a relaunch, following the closure of the earlier, US-based Brutal as Hell (which was founded by Marc Patterson back in 2009). So that’s a decade […]
By guest contributor Chris Ward So here we have two parts of a trilogy originally released during the past three-or-four years getting a boutique 4K UHD re-release by Second Sight Films, and why not, because Second Sight have also put out the bulk of the director’s back-catalogue in a similarly lavish fashion over the past […]
Freddy (Thom Mathews) is a new employee at the Uneeda Medical Supply Warehouse in Louisville, Kentucky. Supervisor Frank (James Karen) attempts to give this thoroughly unglamourous form of employment some umph by taking Freddy to the basement, where drums of a toxic gas called 2-4-5 Trioxin have been stashed by the military. Frank accidentally breaks […]
For those of you who still have affection for print media – and why on earth wouldn’t you? – Darkest Margins: 24 Essays on Liminality and Liminal Spaces in the Horror Genre is a completed and upcoming project to watch. Cards on the table: I’m fortunate enough to have a chapter included in the book, […]
Rob Zombie’s very first foray into cinema is, and was, everything you’d expect a Rob Zombie feature to be. House of 1000 Corpses (2003) is somewhere between an homage to the weirdest low-budget horror of the Sixties, Seventies and Eighties that Zombie clearly loves, and a Rob Zombie promo video – heavy on the aesthetics […]
The Fantasia International Film Festival – now in its 29th year – has long since established itself as a world-beating event, and it hardly needs saying that it’s one of the real highlights of the year for genre film fans, whether those lucky enough to be in attendance or those of us watching and reviewing […]