Fantasia 2025: The Woman

Small in scale, unusual in approach, The Woman (2025) is an intriguing one. It begins with some apparently random events, moving from a chance meeting to a sequence of increasingly alarming follow-ups – and as it goes, it gets increasingly psychologically dark. Its oblique approach may not be for everyone, but it’s in that oblique […]

RIP Jack Ketchum: Remembering a Horror Master

We are deeply saddened by the news that Dallas Mayr, the American horror novelist who worked under the pen name Jack Ketchum, has died at the age of 71. While his name has never been as well known as, say, Stephen King, Clive Barker or James Herbert, Ketchum was without question one of the most […]

FrightFest 2011 Review: The Woman

The Woman (2011) Directed by: Lucky McKee Starring: Pollyanna McIntosh, Sean Bridgers, Angela Bettis Review by: Ben Bussey Within a suprisingly short distance of one another exist what would appear to be two polar opposites of human life. The Cleek family live an affluent and comfortable existence in their beautiful ranch home, whilst in the […]