By Keri O’Shea Whatever happened to the ‘new wave of French horror’, then? I guess the wave just broke. After dominating the horror scene just shy of a decade ago, turning everything, everywhere into a blue-filtered torture fest overlaid with religious anxiety and women in very functional underwear (okay, I’m paraphrasing, but still…) it seems […]
By Ben Bussey Taking a real-life location which – in living memory – has been the site of numerous suicides, and then using it as the setting for a horror movie, always felt like a very risky proposition. Had a Hollywood movie opted to produce a similar treatment of the English town of Brigend*, which infamously […]
In Keri’s earlier review of writer-director Jason Lei Howden’s headbanging horror comedy (consider hers an insider account of sorts, given Keri’s a lifelong metalhead and I’m not), Keri contemplates the ‘special relationship’ between heavy metal music and black magic. It’s fair to say there are similar links between heavy metal and horror cinema. Again, my […]
By Dustin Hall Going into The Corpse of Anna Fritz, I had my loins securely girded. The film is distributed by Invincible Pictures, who recently released the uncut Serbian Film to the public, and its plot is centered around necrophilia. I expected, from that selling point, and from the trailer, to find a supremely depraved […]
By Nia Edwards-Behi It’s hard to believe that the end of The X-Files is here, so soon, again. Even if this episode’s ‘the truth is out there’ is replaced with a sombre ‘this is the end’, it’s hard to believe that that’s truly the case. Continuing where the first episode of this series left over, […]
By Karolina Gruschka As the title of the publication implies, The Monsters’ Almanac is a calendar that contains important dates and facts about monsters. The ‘monsters’ authors Nige Burton and Jamie Jones refer to are the fictional villains and notorious abjects within the horror universe. The guide is part of a larger printed and electronic resource, […]
By Keri O’Shea A couple of years ago, I was fortunate enough to catch a theatre performance which made a sizable impression on me; this was an adaptation of a lesser-known H P Lovecraft story, ‘The Temple’, and the writer & performer behind this one-man show was Michael Sabbaton. I reviewed the show at the […]
By Karolina Gruschka “I really shouldn’t be telling you this…” Set in the late 1960s, an introverted young girl (Lauren Ashley Carter) takes up service as a house-sitter in the oldest mansion of the city. Before departing, the lady of the house (Sean Young) discloses the building’s bad reputation and admits that not many people […]
By Keri O’Shea (For the first part of Keri’s article on the historical basis of this film, please click here. As with Part 1, please note that you should read this article after seeing the film.) Those observant Christians who began to arrive in New England during the middle decades of the 1600s had – […]
Just so there’s no misunderstanding as to which side of the fence I stand, I’m one of those who has never understood why Eli Roth is held up as a modern master of horror. Okay, so he’s a good looking and charismatic man, who comes off as genuinely knowledgeable and enthusiastic about the genre; I’ve […]
By Keri O’Shea Editor’s note: this article discusses The Witch in detail, and as such contains some spoilers. Please read it after you’ve seen the film. For a spoiler-free review, click here. One of the most unusual and atmospheric films to hit the festival circuit late last year, The Witch – a claustrophobic tale of […]