By Keri O’Shea In former times, people thought of diseases and afflictions as evidence of God’s wrath, or even evidence of the intervention of malign forces – namely demons, entities which could infiltrate and possess the human body, given the opportunity. In modern times, we have (mostly) disposed of these ideas, and now view afflictions […]
By Ben Bussey I’m not sure I need to open on a disclaimer, but I really feel the need to emphasise straight away that I am not in any way biased against mainstream horror. There does tend to be this default ‘mainstream bad, indie good’ mentality that comes up among self-professed serious genre fans, but […]
By Svetlana Fedotov European comics are a bit of a mystery lot. Whilst there is plenty of American and Japanese work for fans to pick through, those across the pond are having a hard time breaking into the US comic scene. For every Tin-Tin and 2000 AD that does breach the bloated shores of comic […]
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 […]