By Keri O’Shea Amelia (Essie Davis) is a woman for whom the cliche ‘on the edge’ barely even covers it. A single mother whose partner died taking her to the hospital to give birth to their son, Samuel (Noah Wiseman), she has in the nearly-seven years since then barely really existed; she holds down a […]
By Keri O’Shea We humans seem oddly hardwired to believe in the presence of worlds separate to, but overlapping with, our own: this notion forms the bedrock of a whole wealth of folklore and ritual practice throughout history, and it has persisted, although the places and the means of admission have shifted over the centuries. […]
Review by Ben Bussey Let it never be said that we have run out of ways to do vampire movies. It has long seemed that just about every new movie that comes along which centres on the blood-drinking undead brings with it widespread grumbles from critics and fans alike about how we’ve seen it all […]
By Keri O’Shea The rape/revenge motif has been a staple in exploitation cinema for decades, and judging by the indie output of the last ten years or so, it’s not going anywhere anytime soon, either. I Spit On Your Grave has been blue-filtered and re-calibrated – more than once – for a younger generation, the […]
By Nia Edwards-Behi I was offered Wolves for review because somehow my esteemed editor knew that a film aimed at teens about werewolves and starring Jason Momoa would be appealing to me. He was certainly correct, and so cheerily I took on the task, expecting a slightly blood-and-sexed-up version of Twilight: New Moon, only without […]
By Keri O’Shea The marriage of horror and comedy is not only nothing new, but it seems to have been a decidedly less tricky pairing, back when the gore was less protracted and graphic and the laughs depended less on shocks to make viewers laugh-out-loud. The distance between the two was shorter, see, but not […]
By Nia Edwards-Behi Oh, Danger 5. I have some serious feelings about Danger 5. After the dizzyingly entertaining first series in 2012, 2014…er, I mean, 2015 has brought us an excessively wonderful second series. If I thought the first series was batshit, series two has laughed in my face as it tries to escape from […]
By Quin Hungarian found footage? Sure, why the hell not. As some of you know by now, I’m quite often still suckered in to a wide array of found footage films. I take full responsibility for my taste, or lack thereof. But I can’t help it. I appreciate a finely crafted horror film with a […]
By Tristan Bishop Right, whisper it, but it looks like low budget horror producers may finally have realised that found footage puts off more people than it excites, and not before time, either. The gimmick that was once the go-to for the monetarily-challenged production has finally been sunk by the deluge of filmed sewage which […]
By Nia Edwards-Behi Back in 2010, I put on an event to mark the first Women in Horror Recognition Month, the painfully punny Ghouls on Film. I’ve always wanted to do another, but that scarce modern commodity of ‘time’ always seems just a little bit too far out of my grasp. I mean, I was […]
By Ben Bussey What with the likes of Willow Creek and Exists, Bigfoot horror seems to be quite the in thing of late, so it’s small wonder that other cryptozoological legends from around the world would start making their presence felt. And so, representing Australia’s Bigfoot equivalent the Yowie, we have Throwback, the tale of […]