Tag: pascal laugier

21st Century Horror: the First Twenty Years (Part 1)

Posted on December 31, 2019December 31, 2019 by Keri O'Shea

It’s hard to believe that two decades of the new millennium have already passed. It seems like only yesterday that we were complaining about ticket prices for Millennium Eve, whilst simultaneously fearing a computer glitch which would potentially mean the end of the world as we know it. Well, it didn’t quite happen that way […]

Martyrs for a Decade

Posted on September 4, 2018November 1, 2019 by Keri O'Shea

Spoiler warning. It certainly doesn’t feel like ten years has passed since Pascal Laugier’s divisive horror film Martyrs first arrived, but the more I reflect on the state of horror cinema at the time of its release, the more I feel inclined to agree that ‘the past is a foreign country’. In 2008, horror cinema […]