Review by Kit Rathenar Having been impressed by Thai director Piyapan Choopetch’s ghost revenge horror My Ex last year, I was hoping for more of the same from My Ex 2: Haunted Lover. Not quite a sequel, though very much in the spirit of the first film, Haunted Lover instead hooks to its predecessor by […]
By Keri O’Shea It’s a strange phenomenon when you think of it, but in recent years we have had such a glut of ordeal movies that we now require stronger, more numerous shocks in order that we may maintain interest in the proceedings. Otherwise, all we have is someone being tormented or tortured with very […]
By Oliver Longden April 2013 marks 70 years of Jack Tourneur’s psychological horror film I Walked With a Zombie. Underneath the layers of 1940s reserve and casual racism, there’s quite a charming little movie that probably deserves to be better remembered. Back in 1943, zombies weren’t the horde of shambling undead cannibals we know today: […]
By Keri O’Shea The idea of destiny – the inescapability of some event or course of action, come what may – is an ambiguous one at best, and on one distinct level, it is downright terrifying. If any way in which you try to exercise your personal volition is pointless, or worse still, messes with […]
By Keri O’Shea Well, let’s see: my body aches, I am having to wean myself back onto solid food after giving this up completely by early on Saturday and the sunlight hurts my eyes. Yep, it can only have been a horror movie festival which has wreaked such havoc upon my mortal frame. Horror fests […]
Review by Nia Edwards-Behi Back in 2010, I saw The Collector in the screening room of the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival, and almost immediately dismissed it. The film which started life as a Saw prequel came across as nothing more than a dull rip-off, Saw and its several sequels making it seem derivative and […]
Review by Ben Bussey Ideas: those little sparks of inspiration that are the backbone of all creative acts, yet so often seem painfully thin on the ground. All movies need at least one big idea to bounce off, and to a certain extent it doesn’t really matter whether it’s good or bad, new or old, incredibly smart or […]
By Comix Every comic company has one: some strange creature forever creeping in the back issues of long forgotten comics, popping up occasionally in an obscure reference only to sink back down into the depths of imagination. A creation that demands unflinching dedication to its story, a reflection not only of the worlds ills, but […]
By Stephanie Scaife Although Cronenberg had made a name for himself in the 70’s as the master of low budget gross-out body horror with the release of Shivers (1975), Rabid (1977) and The Brood (1979) it wasn’t until the release of the slightly more accessible sci-fi action flick Scanners (1981) that he really hit the […]
Review by Tristan Bishop Do you remember the J-horror boom of the early noughties? My first experience was The Ring, on an Asian VCD purchased in London’s Chinatown after reading about the buzz it (and the subsequent sequels) were generating in Japan. This was sometime in 2000 – by then the film had been out […]
By Kit Rathenar John Carpenters Vampires (hereafter just “Vampires”, for simplicity’s sake) is a film I feel a little odd writing about. It’s a film that I absolutely love, but I’ve got the strangest feeling that if it could speak to me it would ask me “What the fuck are you doing here?” I don’t […]