horror

Blu-ray Review: Vincent Price Just Can’t Wait To Be King In Roger Corman’s TOWER OF LONDON

Tower Of London is a Shakespeare mash-up woven through the horror genre. This 1962 Roger Corman film takes elements of Richard III, Hamlet and Macbeth and crafts the tale of Richard of Gloucester (Vincent Price), the brother of a dying king who will [...]

February 18, 2017

David Gordon Green & Danny McBride Team With John Carpenter For New HALLOWEEN Movie

In 2016 is was announced that horror specialists Blumhouse Productions and John Carpenter were joining forces to produce a new Halloween movie (read about that here). It was exciting – but things then went quiet. Now Carpenter has dropped [...]

February 11, 2017

DVD Review: BLAIR WITCH Goes Back Into The Woods

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. Many believed Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez’s low budget fright pic was [...]

January 29, 2017

Blu-Ray & DVD Review Round-Up: FRIGHT NIGHT, JULIETA, DEEPWATER HORIZON, THE GIRL WITH ALL THE GIFTS & More

A selection of new blu-ray and DVD releases. This time around: Rediscover Tom Holland’s ’80s horror Fright Night, see Pedro Almodovar turn life into a Hitchcockian thriller in Julieta, get rigged with Mark Wahlberg and Kurt Russell in [...]

January 25, 2017

DVD Review: BLOOD PUNCH Is Hard To Define – But That Doesn’t Stop It Being Great

Sometimes little movies come along and knock your socks off. That happened to Movies In Focus with Blood Punch, an energetic little genre movie. Madellaine Paxson’s film almost defies classification, a sci-fi-comedy-horror-romance which feels as [...]

January 22, 2017

Nosferatu Is Back! Behind The Scenes Images Of MIMESIS: SYMPHONY OF HORROR

Movies In Focus was a big fan of Douglas Schulze’s Mimesis: Night of the Living Dead when I saw it back in 2012 (God, was that really five years ago?). The film riffed on horror movies, particularly Night of the Living Dead and it cleverly used [...]

January 21, 2017

New Featurette For M. Night Shyamalan’s SPLIT

Split might be great. I get the feeling it could be M.Night Shyamalan‘s best film since his hugely under-rated The Village in 2004 (jeez, is that really 13 years ago?). Last year’s The Visit was a step towards that type of cinematic [...]

January 16, 2017

Get Your Velvet Out: Trailer for HAMMER HORROR: THE WARNER BROS YEARS

Movies In Focus is a huge aficionado of Hammer Films‘ luscious horror films. If it wasn’t for the studio then it’s highly unlikely that the site would have a major focus on the horror genre. I love the acting in those films, the [...]

January 11, 2017

The Mayhem Film Festival Announces 2017 Dates

Nottingham’s Mayhem Film Festival will be back in 2017 – the 13th year for the ever-growing genre festival. So, get out your brand-spanking new 2017 diary (the one you got for Christmas) and mark out the 12 – 15 October. Mayhem [...]

January 10, 2017

Review: Irish Horror BEYOND THE WOODS Is Rich In Characterisation

When you’ve seen as many horror films as Movies In Focus, then you’re always hoping that you’ll dig into something that’s a little fresher which offers up something different rather than more of the same. I found that in Sean Breathnach’s [...]

January 9, 2017

You Can’t Keep A Good Horror Franchise Down: CULT OF CHUCKY Teaser Trailer

Iconic monsters of horror may appear to die, but they always come back when you least expect them. Friday the 13th‘s Jason Voorhees and Halloween‘s Michael Myers are set to return, along with the Saw franchise’s Jigsaw and even [...]

January 7, 2017

The Devil Rides Out: Trailer For Brit Horror A DARK SONG

Movies In Focus loves a good horror film, however they can often be hard to find. Writer-director Liam Gavin’s chiller A Dark Song shows promise. Maybe it’s just me, but I’m getting a strong The Devil Rides Out (1968) vibe. Steve [...]

January 5, 2017

Review: Festive Fright Flick GOOD TIDINGS Delivers Some Solid Christmas Carnage

Good Tidings is a down and dirty low budget horror from director Stuart W. Bedford. This British has high aspirations, taking elements of classic horror movies like Halloween and Texas Chainsaw Massacre, John Carpenter’s classic siege movie [...]

December 10, 2016

Show Me THE MUMMY: New Footage In Featurette For Tom Cruise Adventure

The first trailer rocked (check it out) – and now this behind-the-scenes piece for The Mummy continues to make the Tom Cruise starrer look great. I’m excited to see Cruise and Russell Crowe play-off each other and I’m curious to [...]

December 9, 2016

Mummy Impossible: First Full Trailer For Universal’s THE MUMMY Starring Tom Cruise

I don’t think anyone would have ever imagined that Tom Cruise would topline a reboot of Universal Pictures’ The Mummy. But he is – and it looks bloody fantastic. Russell Crowe is along for the ride, while Sofia Boutella plays the [...]

December 5, 2016

Teaser & Poster: Movies In Focus Really Wants Tom Cruise’s MUMMY

Movies In Focus spends a lot of time slamming big budget movies and talking about how we don’t get enough quality. I know that, you know that – but deep, deep down I really do enjoy a good old-fashioned balls-out blockbuster. The Mummy looks [...]

December 3, 2016

Interview: DON’T KILL IT Director Mike Mendez

Mike Mendez is a director who understands the horror genre. He knows how to embrace its tropes and create films which incorporate plenty of humour alongside the darker aspects, understanding the ridiculous without ever losing sight of what [...]

November 28, 2016

Movies In Focus’ Top 20 Horror Films

It’s very difficult to distill something into a list of ‘bests’. However, sometimes it’s good to take stock of something and evaluate the quality, trying to understand what it should or shouldn’t be. I’ve been writing about films for a [...]

October 30, 2016

DVD Review: Fantasy-Horror THE CURSE OF SLEEPING BEAUTY Looks And Sounds Great!

The Curse Of Sleeping Beauty was a pleasant surprise. Yes, Pearry Reginald Teo’s film is incredibly silly, but it’s wonderfully made and visually inventive. It plays with the Brothers Grimm Fairy tale, creating a Guillermo del Toro type [...]

October 30, 2016

DVD Review: DARLING Could Have Been A Hipster Homage – It’s Not

Writer-director Mickey Keating’s Darling is an impressive little psychological horror/thriller with a lot to recommend. Shot in stark black and white, Keating’s film has been compared to Hitchcock and early Polanski, however I feel that it’s [...]

October 28, 2016

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