A pinballing, weaving camera which eventually ends up giving us a cadaver’s eye view, straight through the zipper of a body bag, is a pretty sizeable clue that Suitable Flesh (2023) is going to be an unashamed piece of horror, and to its credit, this turns out to abundantly be the case. Based around H […]
The cinematic monsters made famous by Universal nearly a century ago continue to appear on our screens today, though often now imbued with much more modern symbolism; the vampire, Frankenstein’s creature (or versions of it) and of course the werewolf are used to represent current predilections, anxieties and fears. You could even say the werewolf […]
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 […]
Horror fans, at their best, are a very open-minded but also fiercely loyal bunch. Make one great movie and we’ll make damn sure to see your next; make a bunch of them and we’ll show up every time. Even more so, put together a cast with a string of genre favourites to their name, and […]
When a new horror movie lands with a painfully generic title and reports of a troubled journey to the final cut, this tends to leave you with pretty low expectations going in. Dead Night premiered at 2017’s Fantastic Fest, then known as Applecart; a title I’m glad they ditched, as a) it could easily be […]