horror

Uncovering Curiosities: Chelsea Stardust’s SATANIC PANIC

Director Chelsea Stardust’s 2019 release, Satanic Panic is a film which knows exactly what it wants to be. There’s no pretence or aspiration – Satanic Panic wants to be a fun horror-comedy which doesn’t skimp on gore or laughs. Grady [...]

April 13, 2021

Review: Charlotte Kirk Vs Sean Pertwee In Neil Marshall’s THE RECKONING

Neil Marshall’s The Reckoning isn’t the movie you’re expecting. You might think that this latest film from the Dog Soldiers and The Descent director is a supernatural revenge movie – and while it does feature those elements, [...]

April 13, 2021

Uncovering Curiosities: Joe Dante’s THE HOWLING

1981 was a wonderful year for werewolf films. The year saw the release of John Landis’ An American Werewolf In London, Michael Wadleigh’s Wolfen and Joe Dante’s The Howling. Landis’ film was the bigger hit of the three and Wolfen has [...]

April 9, 2021

Movies In Focus Joins The AT THE FLICKS Podcast To Talk Lewis Teague’s Adaptation Of Stephen King’s CUJO

Movies In Focus was once again thrilled to join Jeff and Graham from the At The Flicks Podcast to talk about Stephen King. This around the discussion was about Lewis Teague’s 1983 adaptation of Cujo. It’s not the finest King screen [...]

April 8, 2021

German Expressionism Classic THE HANDS OF ORLAC Gets A New Release & A Fantastic New Trailer

The 1924 chiller The Hands of Orlac (Orlac’s Hände) reunited the star (Conrad Veidt) and director (Robert Wiene) of The Cabinet Of Dr Caligari (Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari) for yet another silent German Expressionism horror. The film is [...]

March 31, 2021

Review: Jennifer Sheridan’s Slow-Burning Dramatic Horror ROSE – A LOVE STORY

A film about a couple self-isolating in the countryside because one of them has a virus. The need to wear masks and stay away from others – this is not the plot of a hastily shot COVID-19 drama, it’s the rough outline for Jennifer [...]

March 29, 2021

Review: THE BANISHING Is A Surprisingly Original Chiller With Great Performances

Over the decades there have been so many haunted house horror films that you have to wonder if a filmmaker can bring something unique to the over-used trope. However, director Christopher Smith (Severance, Black Death, Triangle) manages to take the [...]

March 26, 2021

Trailer & Poster: Irish Comedy-Horror BOYS FROM COUNTY HELL Looks To Have Gore Galore

Going by this trailer, there will be plenty of fun to be had from Boys From County Hell. This looks like an enjoyable comedy-horror with gore galore from Bad Day For The Cut director Chris Baugh. The plot sees a group of friends unlocking a vampire [...]

March 26, 2021

Review: HONEYDEW Is A Horror Highlight

Director Devereux Milburn’s Honeydew is a gloriously atmospheric horror. The film’s tension is taught and tense and it grips its viewer and drags them into is own special brand of drug-induced weirdness. It’s a slow burning, but [...]

March 26, 2021

Trailer For Jennifer Sheridan’s Timely Romantic Thriller ROSE: A LOVE STORY

Movies In Focus caught Rose: A Love Story at the last year’s London Film Festival. I liked it a lot, saying that the film ‘is a wonderfully crafted genre piece which has the potential to draw in an audience that isn’t normally [...]

March 25, 2021

Remembering Stuart Gordon

Iconic cult filmmaker Stuart Gordon was perhaps best known for 1985’s Re-Animator, but the wrier/director had a prolific career in the horror and science fiction genres. Across his career, Gordon took a lot of inspiration from H. P. [...]

March 24, 2021

Blu-ray Review: VIY Is A Stunning Soviet-Era Supernatural Fantasy

A Russian film from 1967, Viy is a supernatural horror set in the 19th Century which sees a young priest watching over the dead body of a supposed witch for three nights. It’s something which sounds much easier than it actually is, and the [...]

March 21, 2021

Review: THE COLUMNIST Is A Dutch Satire That Doesn’t Go Far Enough

The Columnist is a Dutch black comedy from director Ivo van Aart. It’s an enjoyable enough satirical thriller, which takes aim at social media platforms and the trolls lurking in their shadows. However, the film isn’t as dark or as [...]

March 21, 2021

Review: SACRIFICE Is A Meandering Scandi-Folk Horror

Andy Collier and Tor Mian’s Sacrifice is a Scandi-folk horror, which is obviously heavily inspired by Robin Hardy’s classic folk horror, The Wicker Man, Ari Aster’s recent Midsommar and the works of H.P. Lovecraft (he even gets [...]

March 21, 2021

Uncovering Curiosities: Stephen Rick’s THE SUPER

The great Val Kilmer takes on the title role in 2017’s The Super, a horror-mystery-thriller set in a high-rise New York apartment building. It’s great to see Kilmer back on form, offering-up a tremendously chilly performance as the [...]

March 17, 2021

Uncovering Curiosities: Elliot Goldner’s THE BORDERLANDS/FINAL PRAYER

Movies In Focus is pretty tired of the found footage sub genre which has permeated the horror scene over the last several years. With a few exceptions, this has a pretty atrocious track record. Low budget filmmakers have used the gimmick as a way of [...]

March 9, 2021