horror

Artwork of shark's mouth for the film Chum.

Review: Shark Thriller CHUM Doesn’t Have The Chops

If you’re a reader of Movies In Focus, then you’ll know that a good shark thriller is very popular around these parts. In the least year we’ve had some exceptionally good ones – Kiah Roache-Turner’s World War II themed Beast Of War and [...]

August 5, 2026

Fantasia Festival Review: Zombie Horror Comedy UNHOLY NIGHT Doesn’t Work

Sometimes you go into a film with the whole-hearted expectation that you are going to love it. This happens when the trailer seems to have delivered the goods and got you hooked on the concept and visuals. However, when it eventually comes to [...]

August 1, 2026

Fantasia Festival Review: BIG BREAK Delivers Laughs, Thrills & Kills

There’s plenty of fun to be had with Big Break, the new comedy-horror which has its debut at the Fantasia International Film Festival. This is a loose and relaxed genre effort from New York based comedy troupe, Simple Town and it sees a group of [...]

July 21, 2026

Review: FACES OF DEATH – A Horror Remake With A Difference

If you’re going to dust-off an old movie and give it the remake treatment, then it’s always good to try and do something a little different with the material. Slavishly following the original invites comparisons and it makes it so much easier to [...]

July 11, 2026

artwork for Fantasia International Film Festival 2026

Get Ready For Fantasia International Film Festival 2026

The 30th edition of the Fantasia International Film Festival will kick-off on July 16 and run through to August 2, 2026. The physical festival takes place in Montreal, Canada – but Movies In Focus will be covering things remotely. Who says [...]

July 7, 2026

Review: Curry Barker’s OBSESSION Captures The Horror Zeitgeist

Nothing quite captures the zeitgeist like a horror film. The Exorcist, The Blair Witch Project and The Sixth Sense (to name but a few) were all monumentally successful and enthralled audiences with huge box office grosses. Curry Barker’s Obsession [...]

July 3, 2026

Review: SEND HELP – Don’t Bother

I didn’t like Sam Raimi’s Send Help. It tries too hard and ultimately doesn’t go far enough in its excesses. Rami is a director who can be deliciously subversive when he wants to be (see Drag Me To Hell) and he used to be a down and dirty [...]

June 28, 2026

Joan Collins in Empire of The Ants artwork

Review: It’s Joan Collins Vs Giant Insects In EMPIRE OF THE ANTS

Look, I don’t know if you can call Empire Of The Ants a good film in the traditional sense. Well, actually – scratch that – I’m positively certain that you wouldn’t call it a good film in the traditional sense. However, I’m also [...]

June 19, 2026

Artwork for Madhouse starring Vincent Price

Review: Vincent Price & Peter Cushing Enter The MADHOUSE

Madhouse brings together two of the most well known Masters of the Macabre. Not only do you get the mighty Vincent Price in the lead role, but you also get able support from the great Peter Cushing. It might not be either of the pair’s finest [...]

June 18, 2026

Katharine Isabelle and Emily Perkins in Ginger Snaps

Blu-ray Review: THE GINGER SNAPS TRILOGY Is A Finely Honed Horror Franchise

I remember Ginger Snaps coming out 25 years ago and getting good reviews. For whatever reason, I never engaged with the film, I might have lumped it in with the many post-Scream, ironic horror films of the time, or maybe I found the title a little [...]

June 5, 2026

Review: THE THING EXPANDED Is The Final Word On John Carpenter’s Classic Sci-Fi Horror

I was probably far too young when I was introduced to John Carpenter’s The Thing. My dad let me watch it when I was around 10 years old (maybe a year or two on either side) – a huge Kurt Russell fan thanks to Big Trouble In Little China [...]

May 11, 2026

Podcast Episode 101: Paul Bunnell Talks About A BLIND BARGAIN, Cult Movies & Shooting On Film

Filmmaker Paul Bunnell – the man behind The Ghastly Love of Johnny X – joins this episode of the Movies In Focus podcast to talk about his new film, an offbeat reimagining of the now lost Lon Chaney horror film, A Blind Bargain. Shot [...]

May 6, 2026

The cast of the horror westerm The Wolf and The Lamb

Podcast Episode 100: Cassandra Scerbo, Adrianne Palicki, Zach McGowan, James Landry Hébert On THE WOLF AND THE LAMB

Michael Schilf’s The Wolf And The Lamb is a real curio of a western-horror hybrid with a stacked cast that includes Cassandra Scerbo, Adrianne Palicki, Zach McGowan, James Landry Hébert, Q’orianka Kilcher and Clint Howard. A strange [...]

April 29, 2026

Review: Renny Harlin’s DEEP WATER – A Gloriously Entertaining Shark Thriller

There used to be a time when films just came out. Yes, they would have reviews that were good, bad or indifferent, but they would play simply as entertainment. Today there’s so much noise – maybe it’s devised by marketing teams as a way to [...]

April 28, 2026

Review: THE YETI Gives You Exactly What You Want From A Monster Movie

A film called The Yeti sets up a certain amount of expectations – and filmmakers can either embrace those expectations or totally ignore them. That can lead to a very happy audience, or an audience that’s ultimately disappointed by the bait [...]

April 7, 2026

Podcast Episode 99: THE YETI Filmmakers Gene Gallerano & William Pisciotta

You might have certain expectations when going into a film called The Yeti. However, filmmakers Gene Gallerano and William Pisciotta blow those expectations out of the water with their surprising new monster film. A horror pic with a difference, [...]

April 6, 2026