Interested in promoting or otherwise supporting filmmakers who are aged 24 or under? You really should be: it’s a jungle out there, and we need that emerging talent coming through. With that in mind – it’s been one of their core aims since their inception – The National Film Festival for Talented Youth is about […]
Is it too soon to talk about go-to themes and styles where director Robert Eggers is concerned? He has, after all, only made three features to date; who knows, he could head somewhere very different next time he works. A comedy musical perhaps. But, let’s indulge ourselves here and look at what he does seem […]
Funny how it’s turned out, but zombie horror has been with us so long and appeared so often now, that it all feels oddly comforting. For the most part, tropes which are maddening from other genres seem more than acceptable when there are zombies in tow: it doesn’t even really seem to matter that much […]
Based on a Japanese novel, partly produced by a Japanese team, you’d be forgiven for expecting Room 203 to contain a fair amount of J-horror elements – but that’s not how it primarily comes across. It’s far more rooted in the Western tradition of haunted houses, though it balances its use of tropes with its […]
Now here’s a risky idea: returning to a short film, around seventeen years or so after making it, hoping to expand the universe of that film into a feature-length. A big ask at the best of times, no? Whilst it’s certainly not the first time this has been done, The Cellar (2022) was always going […]
Director and writer George Popov’s low-key but effective supernatural horror The Droving (2020) is an excellent example of the use of folklore in cinema – and though the folklore in the film is original, it feels linked to pre-existing storytelling, particular through the importance of the English landscape. Sideworld: Haunted Forests of England (2022) is […]
It should be no surprise to anyone that the pervasive world of social media is finding its way into more and more horror cinema: as for the new breed of influencers which inhabit this world, their pursuit of ‘likes’, the drive for more and more content, the fight for revenue generation – of course this […]
From its very earliest moments, as the camera oh-so slowly approaches a baby’s buggy parked in the middle of a street – it’s clear that You Are Not My Mother is a film which will allow itself ample time, not rushing through anything it wants to show. And, as it segues almost straight away into […]
A piece of vertical ordeal horror, if you will, The Ledge certainly hops around between ordeal and a couple of other genres too – though it remains resolutely two-dimensional. That being said, there is enough here – enough tension, enough clout – to just about hold it together, and it does enough overall to keep […]
Time flies, and it certainly doesn’t seem like three decades since I scored the poster for Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth from the local video shop, back when you could ask nicely for posters at the end of their release run and – if the member of staff took mercy on you – you could […]
A film which the site covered after its screening at Celluloid Screams in Sheffield, UK last year, Offeason (2021) is about to land on VOD and digital release on Monday 11th, 2022 thanks to the folks at Shudder and RLJE Films. Is it worth checking out? Well, to help make up your minds, you could […]