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 […]
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 […]
By contributing writer Adam Page Would you like to try a party trick? Say “Trilogy of Terror” to anybody over, let’s say 50, who grew up with a television in the house and an aerial bent and twisted into some superstitious angle, and watch their face. It’s not exactly recognition, it’s more like a full-body […]
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 […]
By Adam Page There is something about Stephen King that, I think, he himself would probably concede after a few coffees and the right provocation: he can’t always see the wood for the trees. There is no question that he is one of the most instinctive and devastating horror writers of the twentieth century, an […]
What kind of place is this? Backrooms (2026) is another of those break-out indie horror films from a young director unburdened by the weight of a legacy, whilst still benefitting from the ever-growing wealth of horror cinema which operates like its own microculture, cross-pollinating titles, genres, ideas and styles. Alongside Obsession, it picks up its […]