horror

Mia Goth on the Blu-ray covers of Pearl and MaXXXine

4K Blu-ray Review: Ti West’s PEARL & MAXXXINE Get The Second Sight Films Treatment

With the X film franchise, filmmaker Ti West has started to dig deep into the horror genre and play around with its many tropes. He’s been able to use one narrative thread and deliver three distinct films which all tackle a different aspect of [...]

December 7, 2025

Podcast Episode 89: Talking British Cinema With Film Producer Jonathan Sothcott

British film producer and the man behind Shogun Films, Jonathan Sothcott joins this episode of the Movies In Focus podcast to discuss his impressive and varied career in the film industry. One of the most prolific figures in British genre [...]

October 26, 2025

Review: HELLOWEEN Offers A Killer Clown Horror Mash-Up

Reviewing horror movies can be difficult. The genre has its own rules, and it can work on two different levels. Some films exist purely to entertain, while others serve as allegories for current events. Both approaches are totally valid, but it’s [...]

October 15, 2025

Podcast Episode 88: Talking Music With Film Composer Tom Schraeder

Film composer and singer-songwriter Tom Schraeder joins this episode of the Movies In Focus podcast for an in-depth conversation. Known for his emotionally charged music, Schraeder has built a career that bridges the worlds of songwriting and film [...]

October 14, 2025

Hayley McFarland and Sharmita Bhattacharya in We're Not Safe Here

Podcast Episode 84: Hayley McFarland & Sharmita Bhattacharya Talk WE’RE NOT SAFE HERE

Actors Hayley McFarland and Sharmita Bhattacharya, the captivating leads of writer/director Solomon Gray’s quietly unnerving horror We’re Not Safe Here, join this episode of Movies In Focus podcast. We’re Not Safe Here is a horror film [...]

September 23, 2025

Renny Harlin and the masked killers from The Strangers

Podcast Episode 83: Action Auteur Renny Harlin On THE STRANGERS: CHAPTER 2

Action Auteur, Renny Harlin joins this special bite-sized episode of the Movies In Focus podcast. In the 1990s, Harlin delivered some of the decade’s most memorable and entertaining films like Die Hard 2, Cliffhanger, The Long Kiss Goodnight [...]

September 23, 2025

Podcast Episode 81: Solomon Gray Discusses His Offbeat Horror WE’RE NOT SAFE HERE

Solomon Gray, writer and director of the quietly unsettling horror film, We’re Not Safe Here, joins the Movies In Focus podcast for an in-depth conversation. We’re Not Safe Here is deft little chiller that is notable for its ability to [...]

September 14, 2025

Review: WE’RE NOT SAFE HERE Is A Deftly Handled Chiller

: We’re Not Safe Here is a deftly handled little chiller. It gets under your skin, offering up quiet scares rather than cheap shocks. It’s the type of film I really enjoy – an offbeat horror that pays dividends for those willing to [...]

September 4, 2025

Four men standing in masks with a fiery torch.

Review: Help Yourself & Seek Out Erik Bloomquist’s SELF-HELP

I’ve been following Erik Bloomquist’s career for a few years now. He’s an intriguing filmmaker, taking genre movies and adding his own special twist to them, filtering them through an arthouse sensibility. Films like Long Lost and Ten Minutes [...]

August 15, 2025

Blu-ray Review: TALK TO ME Is A Gripping Horror Film – In More Ways Than One!

Danny and Michael Philippou’s Talk To Me is an astute film debut from the directing brothers. It’s a mean, lean piece of Aussie genre filmmaking that knows precisely when to shock and when to sucker punch the emotions. It’s a grisly [...]

August 8, 2025

Podcast Episode 79: Megan Tremethick On THE REIGN OF QUEEN GINNARRA & The World Of Genre Filmmaking

Actress and filmmaker, Megan Tremethick joins this episode of the Movies In Focus podcast to discuss her acclaimed low-budget epic, The Reign Of Queen Ginnarra (read the Movies In Focus review). Megan explores the inspiration behind the Roger [...]

July 31, 2025

Drawing of a young girl and a pit-bull dog.

Blu-ray Review: WHEN EVIL LURKS – A Bleak Look At Demonic Possession

Look, I don’t know how many demonic possession movies have been made since William Friedkin unleashed The Exorcist into the world way back in 1973 – but I’m guessing that the number is probably in the thousands by now. You know the drill: [...]

July 26, 2025

Review: CLOWN IN A CORNFIELD Delivers Tongue-In-Cheek Hack-In-Slash

Slasher movies essentially kicked-off way back in the 1970s when John Carpenter unleashed Halloween in 1978. Slashers flourished throughout the 1980s, before dying a painful and slow death by the time the 1990s rolled around. The Scream franchise [...]

July 21, 2025

Podcast Episode 76: Adam Cesare On The Film Adaptation Of CLOWN IN A CORNFIELD

Acclaimed horror author Adam Cesare joins this bite-sized episode of the Movies In Focus podcast to talk about the recording breaking film adaptation of his novel Clown In A Cornfield. Known for his mastery of slasher thrills and sharp social [...]

May 12, 2025

A Symphony Of Horror: The Legacy Of F.W. Murnau’s NOSFERATU

Released in December 2024, Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu has been a break-out hit, garnering not only art-house critical acclaim but also strong box office – where it has made over $90 million in the U.S. and more than $140 million worldwide. [...]

January 19, 2025

Notebook Reviews: THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE

Tobe Hooper – 1974. Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a low budget and quite horrific horror pic that set the template for a plethora of other fright films. The set-up is a slow burn, but once things kick-0ff, it becomes [...]

November 3, 2024

Podcast Episode 70: Daniel Myrick & Eduardo Sanchez On THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT’s Enduring Horror Legacy

Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez, the directors of the iconic horror film The Blair Witch Project join this episode of the Movies In Focus podcast. Released in 1999, The Blair Witch Project not only essentially created the found-footage genre but [...]

November 2, 2024

Blu-ray Review: THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT – Still Great 25 Years On

Horror cinema was taken to a whole new level 25 years ago when The Blair Witch Project came out of nowhere, broke box office records – and for better or for worse – single-handedly ushered in the ‘found footage’ sub-genre. The set-up [...]

November 2, 2024

Blu-ray Review: LATE NIGHT WITH THE DEVIL Is 1970s TV Hell

Get ready for some late-night horror as Australian filmmakers Colin Cairnes and Cameron Cairnes deliver the 1970s set fright pic, Late Night With The Devil. This is a pseudo-found footage film framed around a live television broadcast in which David [...]

October 26, 2024

Podcast Episode 68: Kevin Smith Talks THE 4:30 MOVIE & Euros Lyn Discusses THE RADLEYS

Two very different directors talk about two very different films on this episode of the Movies In Focus podcast. First-up, Kevin Smith talks about his 1980s set comedy, The 4:30 Movie and then later in the episode Euros Lyn discusses his [...]

October 14, 2024

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