By Ben Bussey I’ve already taken a swipe at the posters and DVD covers of the last 12 months that got it wrong. Now it’s time to celebrate those that got it right, and I’ll admit that’s actually a thornier prospect. Pointing out flaws and mocking them isn’t too challenging, as countless billions of school […]
By Ben Bussey As we’re getting close to the end of 2012 – and, depending on who you talk to, the end of all life on Earth as we know it – now’s about the right time to reflect on what kind of year it’s been for the horror/cult/trash/insert preferred term here movies that we […]
Review by Annie Riordan So, on Saturday morning, having nothing better to do, I stripped completely naked except for a pink tutu, popped a handful of NoDoz and washed it down with a bottle of Nyquil, lowered the disco ball, tuned into the All Calliope All the Time radio station, ran a YouTube recording of […]
Review by Oliver Longden Southern Comfort is a re-release of a 1981 survival thriller by Walter Hill, best known for the cult classic The Warriors in which a street gang must fight their way home across a surreal gang-haunted vision of New York. Southern Comfort tells a similar story of violence and struggle. A group […]
By Keri O’Shea The Czech Republic is famous for being the setting of The Golem, which became one of the first horror movies ever filmed – but, excepting the possibility that we’re just not getting to see them, we haven’t seen much horror coming out of that part of Europe. That is, until director Robin […]
Review by Ben Bussey Short stories have quite a role in horror history, don’t they? While often the format is regarded perhaps a little dismissively as simply an entry point into the field for fledgling wordsmiths, for many writers they’re an end unto themselves. Plenty of the horror masters have done some of their best and most […]
By Keri O’Shea I don’t tend to go on conventional holidays, but for four years now I’ve been making a yearly pilgrimage to a picturesque seaside town in mid-Wales…and, hand on heart, I wouldn’t have it any other way. I first became aware of this unique horror film festival via FAB Press all those years […]
Review by Ben Bussey It might raise some eyebrows that director Ben Wheatley has chosen to follow up his widely praised hitman/Satanic panic chiller Kill List with a black comedy about a couple on a British caravan holiday. Those who rate Wheatley’s last to be one of the best horror films of recent years might initially […]
By Kit Rathenar There can’t be a horror fan alive who doesn’t know the legend of Dracula. The vampire Count with his black cape, his crumbling castle, his numerous brides and his insatiable thirst for the blood of the living may be the single most iconic figure in all of Western horror. Even people who’ve […]
Review by Tristan Bishop When non-horror fans ask me why I am so besotted with my favourite genre, I tend to give them the following reason: I believe that even bad horror films are interesting as they reflect, more so than any other genre, the changing fears and obsessions of different cultures over the years. […]
Review by Ben Bussey When setting out to assess a film which deals with the nature of time, space, psychic phenomena, and the role that drug use might play in our perception of these matters, all from a detached, tongue-in-cheek perspective, it’s immediately apparent how easily a film of this nature might not work. From […]