RIP, Julian Sands

After the actor went missing earlier this year whilst hiking in the San Gabriel mountains, it was always a slim-to-none chance that Julian Sands was going to turn up unharmed. Now, sadly, remains recently found in the area have been confirmed as him; whilst not a surprise, it also feels greatly sad to receive that […]

‘Vengeance is a human right’: examining Irreversible (2002)

Irreversible does, at least, warn us of what is coming. In its first few minutes, with its hammering soundtrack, its almost infrasonic hum, its extraordinary, pinballing camerawork and its first pitstop with two odious, broken men who warn us that ‘time destroys all things’, the film instils a kind of sensory fight-or-flight response. It sets […]

Don’t Open That Door! Gabby’s Favourite Horror Video Games

By guest contributor Gabby Foor Horror games provide a unique experience compared to film because they are directly engaging. The sound is in your headset, you control the character and make the life or death choices; it’s you who are directly experiencing jump scares and conducting bloody battles. You get to be a part of […]

Top 10 Films of 2022

Another year bites the dust… From the perspective of the kinds of independent films usually covered here at Warped Perspective, 2022 has, after everything, been a good year for film: lots of the big genre film festivals have boasted excellent, extensive line-ups, and after a run of virtual-only fests, most physical fests are back (though, […]

‘Tis the season: Brooklyn Horror Film Festival 2022

October is a busy month for genre film fans, and for folks on the East Coast it’s happily no exception as the Brooklyn Horror Film Festival prepares to launch this year’s event. Running from the 13th October to the 20th, it promises both a run of classic cinema and brand new titles. (Warped Perspective is […]

Hellraiser (2022) – the good and the bad…

The Hellraiser franchise is the thing that won’t die. Decades after its inception in the 80s, and since one excellent sequel in the form of Hellbound (1988), it has morphed and been sold on and changed and spoiled and (partly) redeemed down through the subsequent years. The original story’s Cenobites have walked the city streets, […]

Win Romero’s ‘The Amusement Park’ on Blu-ray!

We all know the late George A. Romero as the pioneer of the zombie in horror cinema – a cinematic monster which has sustained appropriate levels of longevity in modern culture. But there was far more to his career than that and he found far more ways to critique the society he lived in than […]

Societal Monsters: Social Commentary in 2010s Horror

By Guest Contributor Grace Anderson Have you noticed that horror movies have been becoming more political these days? With iconic filmmakers such as Jordan Peele and Eli Roth leading the trend, double meanings and social allegories have become more and more prevalent in the horror movies of the past decade. The 2010s were an extremely […]