horror

First Trailer For Jordan Peele’s Horror US

Jordan Peele came out as a major voice in genre cinema with 2017’s Oscar-winning Get Out. His follow-up, Us seems also appears to be a punchy socio-political fright flick with plenty of tension and some very strong visual elements. Check out [...]

December 27, 2018

Blu-ray Review: WHEN A STRANGER CALLS & WHEN A STRANGER CALLS BACK

/ The opening twenty minutes of Fred Walton’s When A Stranger Calls is as tense and edge-of-seat thrilling as cinema can get. The now iconic scene sees a young babysitter (Carol Kane) harassed by a series of mysterious telephone calls. It’s [...]

December 16, 2018

Trailer For Horror Parody CAMP DEATH III IN 2D!

Camp Death III In 2D hits Amazon Prime on 15 February 2019 and here’s the trailer for the Matt Frame directed horror spoof. The low budget flick takes aim Friday the 13th Part III 3D and it looks to offer-up a selection of genre related [...]

December 15, 2018

Review: Horror Anthology TERROR TALES

Horror anthology movies are often tiny surprises, collections of morality tales wrapped up as genre vignettes. I take great pleasure in watching these movies and always look forward to them when I get the opportunity to view one. I was therefore [...]

December 13, 2018

Review: Sparks Fly Between Barbara Crampton and Michael Paré In Horror REBORN

A refreshingly straightforward horror film, Reborn ticks all the right boxes and delivers a fun eighty-ish minutes of mayhem. Director Julian Richards’ film opens with a stillborn child being brought back to life following an electrical storm. [...]

November 21, 2018

Clips From J.J. Abrams Produced WWII Horror OVERLORD

The J.J. Abrams produced Overlord blends WWII actioner with zombie horror. That’s a combination that just might work (if any one can pull it off it’s Abrams). Here are a three clips to give you a feel for the Julius Avery directed [...]

November 7, 2018

Director Rob Savage’s SALT Is A Well Seasoned Horror Short

Rob Savage’s horror short, Salt packs a hell of a punch in the space of just two minutes. The set-up is simple: Alice Lowe is the mother protecting her daughter (Beau Gadsdon) from an evil, salt-hating demon. The film plays out like the [...]

October 29, 2018

Review: Michael Myer’s Returns To Haddonfield In David Gordon Green’s Follow-Up To John Carpenter’s HALLOWEEN

John Carpenter’s Halloween is as near to perfect as any slasher film can be and the 1978 horror is a masterful exercise in suspense, augmented by come exceptional camera work (the opening is still stunning) and a wonderful score. A multitude of [...]

October 27, 2018

It’s HAMMER Time This November On The Horror Channel

This November the UK’s Horror Channel is celebrating horror cinema at its finest with a Hammer Classics Seasons. The channel is embracing the best of horror by showing The Abominable Snowman, The Curse of Frankenstein, Dracula and The Mummy [...]

October 23, 2018

Blu-ray Review: Fred Dekker’s Horror Homage NIGHT OF THE CREEPS Is Gloriously Bonkers

Fred Dekker’s 1986 directorial debut, Night Of The Creeps is a gloriously bonkers horror-comedy which blends 1950s B-movie/sci-fi with 1980s frat-boy comedy. You’d think the whole thing would buckle under the silliness of it all, but Dekker [...]

October 20, 2018

Review: Andy Mitton’s THE WITCH IN THE WINDOW Is a Horror Masterpiece

Andy Mitton’s The Witch In The Window is one of the most beautifully crafted horror films to hit screens in many years. Mitton’s film is a perfectly precise piece of genre cinema, filled with wonderful character moments as [...]

October 20, 2018

Mayhem Film Festival 2018: Days Three & Four

After getting off to a stunning start, the 2018 Mayhem Film Festival continued to impress over the course of its final two days. Day Three The third day of Mayhem 2018 began with the wonderfully bonkers One Cut Of The Dead. We were told by Chris [...]

October 15, 2018

Review: ANNA AND THE APOCALYPSE Is A Christmas-Horror-Teen-Musical-Comedy That Works

As a Christmas-zombie-musical-teen-comedy, the multi-genre straddling Anna And The Apocalypse could have gone either way (with the odds on totally disastrous). However, director John McPhail has managed to overcome these odds to deliver a charming [...]

October 14, 2018

Mayhem Film Festival 2018: Days One & Two

Kicking-off in Nottingham’s Broadway Cinema, the first two days of the 14th Mayhem Film Festival brought together a wonderful selection of genre films introduced by Chris Cook and Steven Sheil. Movies In Focus was once again on-hand to bring [...]

October 13, 2018

Trailer: Stephen King’s PET SEMATARY Gets A New Lease Of Life

Stephen King has alway been big bank, but it’s likely that the horror writer has never been as popular as he is now. That’s because the kids who grew up reading his novels and watching his earlier adaptations are now making movies and [...]

October 10, 2018

Ho-Ho-Horror: Festive Fright Pic ANNA AND THE APOCALYPSE

Anna and the Apocalypse hits cinema screens across the UK on 30 November. The film got its debut at the Edinburgh International Film Festival – and I’ll be catching it at the Mayhem Film Festival in Nottingham’s Broadway on Cinema [...]

October 9, 2018

Review: Horror Short HEARTLESS Makes The Apprentice Look Like Child’s Play

Loosely inspired by Edgar Allan Poe‘s The Tell-Tale Heart, writer-director Kevin Sluder’s directorial debut, Heartless might only last 12 minutes but it packs enough visceral punch to make each of those minutes count. Stacy [...]

October 8, 2018

Competition: Win A 3 Disc Horror DVD Bundle

Halloween is approaching and to celebrate Movies In Focus is giving away a horror movie 3-disc DVD bundle to a lucky reader of the site. The Sony Pictures horror bundle includes UFO starring Gillian Anderson and David Strathairn, Patient Zero with [...]

October 7, 2018

Review: Val Kilmer Dials Up The Creepy In Horror-Mystery THE SUPER

Val Kilmer returns to the screen in 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 superintendent who appears to be [...]

October 6, 2018

Review: John Carpenter’s Horror Classic HALLOWEEN Is Still Great 40 Years Later

The horror genre can often (rightfully) be maligned. Many of the films within the genre are cheap exploitation films, whose filmmakers care more about monetary return than crafting a great movie. However, John Carpenter constructed an instant [...]

October 3, 2018

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