horror

Review: George A. Romero’s Cult Vampire Horror MARTIN

Writer/Director George A. Romero will forever be associated with zombie films. After all, he did kick-start the never-dying horror sub-genre with 1968’s The Night Of The Living Dead before cementing his status as the ‘Dad of The Dead’ [...]

March 19, 2023

Review: GATEWAY Is A Mysterious Metaphysical Horror Film

Writer/director Niall Owens’ Gateway is an Irish horror film which gives a new and intriguing spin on the traditional haunted house trope. Starting off as a gritty crime film, Gateway then segues into a metaphysical horror that delivers well-honed [...]

February 19, 2023

Review: PENNYWISE: THE STORY OF IT

The character of Pennywise has transcended Stephen King’s novel, It and effectively become its own entity. One of the reasons the monstrous clown achieved this infamy is because of Tim Curry’s gnarly performance in the 1990 TV [...]

October 2, 2022

100 Years Of Christopher Lee

Few actors have had an impact on so many generations in the way that Christopher Lee did. The tall, dark and enigmatic actor’s deep baritone voice meant that he sounded as iconic as he looked and he had a career which saw him enter the Guinness [...]

May 27, 2022

Remembering Sam Raimi’s CRIMEWAVE

Long before Doctor Strange and Spider-Man, Sam Raimi followed-up the success of 1981’s The Evil Dead with Crimewave. Co-written by Raimi along with Joel and Ethan Coen, the 1985 release mixes slapstick, noir and horror to deliver a film which [...]

May 3, 2022

*CLOSED* Competition: Win Irish Horror Film CAVEAT On DVD

Acorn Media International will release Damian McCarthy’s Caveat on Blu-ray, DVD and digital on 28th February 2022. To celebrate, Movies In Focus is giving away a copy of the film on DVD to one lucky reader.  Amnesiac drifter Isaac (Jonathan [...]

February 19, 2022

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