horror

HALLOWEEN KILLS Delayed Until October 2021 – Watch The First Teaser Trailer

The good news – here’s the new teaser for David Gordon Green‘s Halloween Kills. The bad news is that anyone excited about the Halloween sequel is going to be disappointed because it has now been delayed a full year due to the [...]

July 9, 2020

Review: Cosmic Body Horror THE BEACH HOUSE Dares To Be Different

Jeffrey A. Brown’s The Beach House is a low key horror which offers up some interesting ideas and a fair amount squirmy body horror. It’s light on scares, but the film is more of an atmospheric mood piece with a focus on cosmic mystery than a [...]

July 8, 2020

Review: RELIC Is A Horror Film With Serious Emotional Heft

On the surface, Natalie Erika James’ Relic is a horror film – and for all intents and purposes it is. But there’s much more to unpack in this richly layered piece of genre cinema. Horror films always work best when they’re using the [...]

July 5, 2020

Ari Aster’s MIDSOMMAR Proves That Horror Is A Serious Business

Writer/director Ari Aster’s Midsommar is a mind-bending, genre-defying piece of cinema. Yes, superficially the 2019 release has all the traits of a horror film, but Aster’s movie is much more than that (I won’t use the phrase [...]

July 5, 2020

Trailer For Shudder’s Cosmic Horror THE BEACH HOUSE

Here’s the trailer for The Beach House, Shudder‘s forthcoming horror film, which drops on 9 July 2020. Written and directed by Jeffrey A. Brown, the pic is described as ‘a striking and timely eco-horror that offers up [...]

June 28, 2020

Review: AFTER MIDNIGHT Is A Low Budget Horror Delight

After Midnight is another wonderful example of a small movie achieving great things. This quirky romantic comedy/horror from directors Jeremy Gardner and Christian Stella delivers on almost every level. Not only did the pair direct After Midnight, [...]

June 22, 2020

Review: Horror Film THE LURING Wants To Be Stephen King – But It’s Not Even Dean Koontz

They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. It might be, but if you’re attempting to imitate something great and you don’t have the chops to match it, then you come across as a very poor imitation indeed. Sadly, that’s the case [...]

June 19, 2020

Acclaimed Horror-Drama RELIC Hits US Drive-In Screens For 4 July

Just before it hits US cinema and Digital/VOD on 10 July, IFC Films is bringing Relic to US drive-in screens in an advance one week-run starting on 3 July. Japanese-Australian director Natalie Erika James’ feature debut is a powerful [...]

June 18, 2020

Throwback Short Film: STRANGERS IN THE NIGHT

Conor McMahon’s Strangers In The Night is brilliant. This Irish short film is loaded with great comedy, as well as some tremendous special effects. This 12 minute long effort is about a Banshee looking for love in rural Ireland. It’s as [...]

June 14, 2020

Review: Bloody Horror/Thriller THE DINNER PARTY Is Infuriatingly Undercooked

Director Miles Doleac’s deliciously gory The Dinner Party gets a few things right, but ultimately this horror/thriller fails to serve-up the requisite amount of tension to deliver the goods. It’s a shame because the film is a rather good-looking [...]

June 11, 2020

Remembering THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT & How It Changed Cinema

Horror cinema was taken to a whole new sphere in 1999 when The Blair Witch Project came out of nowhere and singlehandedly ushered in the ‘found footage’ sub-genre. Blair Witch is a film which helped to change film marketing forever. It showed [...]

June 11, 2020

Cats Are Evil! Watch This Clip From Quirky Horror AFTER MIDNIGHT

Jeremy Gardner and Christian Stella’s After Midnight is a film which delivers on almost every level. The quirky comedy-horror follows the 10 year relationship between Hank (Jeremy Gardner) and Abby (Brea Grant) and the curious monster which [...]

June 9, 2020

Remembering Universal Pictures’ Ill-Fated DARK UNIVERSE

2017 was a much simpler time. It was a time when Universal Pictures decided to follow the Marvel route and attempted to create a shared universe for the classic Universal Monsters. The studio scored an A-list cast: Johnny Depp as the Invisible [...]

June 7, 2020

THE WOLFMAN: Ryan Gosling Set To The Iconic Universal Monster

Werewolf. There Wolf. Word on the street is that Ryan Gosling is the new Wolfman for Universal Pictures. There has been a serious under-appreciation of the werewolf on screen over the years. While the horror sub-genre has delivered some undeniable [...]

May 31, 2020

Review: GRIZZLY II: REVENGE Sees An Angry Bear Have George Clooney, Laura Dern and Charlie Sheen For Dinner!

Originally filmed in 1982, Grizzly II: Revenge hit a major stumbling block when one of the producers bailed during the first day of shooting on the film’s huge concert scenes in Hungary. Money issues saw the partially completed horror limp to the [...]

May 29, 2020

Throwback Short Film: SURGERY

The Clemens Bros Surgery is an eye-watering short about a kidnapped man waking-up during some pretty nasty torture. Starring Nicholas Ball, Jamie Lee, Sam Clemens and Lara Lemon this ten minute film from 2015 is a nasty little piece which will stay [...]

May 24, 2020

When Movies Go Wrong: THE ISLAND OF DOCTOR MOREAU

HG Wells’ 1896 novel The Island Of Doctor Moreau was adapted for the screen in the troubled 1996 film starring Marlon Brando, Val Kilmer and David Thewlis. The now infamous film was originally set to be directed by Richard Stanley (Hardware), but [...]

May 23, 2020