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 […]
By Tristan Bishop At the dawn of the 1980s John Carpenter was riding high on the success of Halloween, which had been released in 1978, and had, after many months and much word of mouth, become an enormous success, making upwards of $65,000,000 on a budget of just over $300,000. Nowadays of course the major […]
Review by Ben Bussey Okay, so we really shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, nor make our minds up about what looks like an absolutely appalling microbudget horror movie within the first 15 minutes – but sometimes you just know. Sometimes all the signs are there from the word go, and there can be […]
By Tristan Bishop Those of us who have been horror fans for a number of years tend to be immune to most attempted ‘scares’, mostly because we know the tropes all too well and can read the signposts to the next shock moment. So whilst the average viewer might be jumping out of their chair […]
By Stephanie Scaife This is a story that I’ve told before, but it bears repeating. When we first got a VHS player in the mid-80s and I started frequenting the local video store, I was quickly seduced by the lurid covers of the horror section and the age restrictions that applied to these titles. I […]
By Guest Contributor Claire Waddingham About three weeks ago, in that dreary post Christmas period, I found a copy of Ghostwatch in one of the local charity shops. It was only a quid, and as it was Sunday, and I wanted a bit of nostalgia, I decided to fork out to watch it. I figured […]
By Quin I must admit, when it was decided that we would be doing a series of special features dedicated to our own childhood terrors, I felt a bit perplexed and the anxiety came flooding in. Not because I didn’t want to revisit all of the things that scared me as a kid. I’m perfectly […]
Review by Tristan Bishop Stellan Skarsgard’s 40 year plus career has taken in a lot of different work, from his long-running collaborations with eternal enfant terrible of art-house cinema Lars Von Trier (so far he has appeared in six of the director’s films), to his roles in the recent Marvel Thor and Avengers films, to […]
By Keri O’Shea As I alluded to in the introduction to our Childhood Terrors series, the bookshelf has long been (and hopefully still is) a formidable presence in children’s lives – a rich seam of ideas at the threshold of a room, teeming with characters and forces which command real power. A book is, all […]