horror

Here’s The New Mask For MTV’s SCREAM – The Producers Don’t Know What They Have

Scream is coming to MTV (remember when that stood for Music Television?). Here’s the new Ghostface mask that’ll have Edvard Munch screaming in his grave. I supposed they had to change it from the movies because… “The [original] mask is so [...]

June 6, 2015

The Writers Of John Carpenter’s The Ward Launch An Indiegogo Campaign For THE INHABITANTS

Michael and Shawn Rasmussen penned the script to John Carpenter’s last cinematic effort The Ward and the directed the interesting horror Dark Feed, which Movies In Focus called ‘an old-fashioned chiller that puts tension before gore‘. [...]

May 30, 2015

Interview: Director Nick Willing On THE HAUNTING OF RADCLIFFE HOUSE And How To Make Genre Movies

Nick Willing is a writer-director-producer who has directed numerous television mini-series that have tackled many famous tales. From the likes of Alice In Wonderland (1999) and Jason And the Argonauts (2000) to Tin Man (2007) and Neverland (2011), [...]

May 25, 2015

WORLD WAR Z 2 Is On The way And A Title With A Colon Is A Necessity

World War Z was 1000 times better than it should have been. The Brad Pitt zombie movie had a troubled production but it turned out to be a highly entertaining flick. Who cares if it had little resemblance to Max Brooks novel. The 2013 movie scored [...]

May 23, 2015

Build Your Horror High Hopes For THE GALLOWS With This Trailer

Movies In Focus covers a lot of horror. That’s a double-edged sword because a lot of horror movies are terrible. When done right, horror can be cinema at its most primalm however when it’s done wrong it can be downright laughable. I’m not [...]

May 22, 2015

Great Trailer For Brit Werewolf Horror HOWL: Could It Be The New Dog Soldiers?

Movies In Focus loves a good werewolf movie – and Howl looks like an absolute corker. There’s a strong Dog Soldiers vibe to this trailer for Paul Hyett’s film – and that’s totally okay with me. It’s been over a decade since Neil [...]

May 16, 2015

Climb New Heights With The International Trailer, Poster And Images For CRIMSON PEAK

Gothic horror gets the big budget treatment in Guillermo del Toro’s Crimson Peak. Mia Wasikowska, Jessica Chastain, Tom Hiddleston and Charlie Hunnam star in the Legendary Pictures/ Universal co-production that promises to be every genre [...]

May 14, 2015

DVD Review: Will THE SLEEPING ROOM Keep You Awake at Night?

Brit horror The Sleeping Room has some good atmosphere woven into its tight running time (it clocks in at just 77 minutes). It might be silly as hell but there’s an air of freshness to this John Shackleton directed fright piece. Leila Mimmack is [...]

May 11, 2015

Interview: John Carpenter Talks Music, Movies And Hollywood

John Carpenter is one of the most influential filmmakers of the last 50 years. He began his career with Dark Star before making the cult classic Assault In Precinct 13. He then hit career pay dirt with Halloween, a horror film that transcended its [...]

May 11, 2015

DVD Review: Will You Worship At The Altar Of THE HAUNTING OF RADCLIFFE HOUSE?

Writer-director Nick Willing’s The Haunting of Radcliffe House is an old fashioned ghost story steeped in fantastic atmosphere. It hits the mark for those wanting a horror film light on gore and high on tension. Matthew Modine and Olivia Williams [...]

May 9, 2015

Forget The Hateful Eight And Check Out The Poster For Kurt Russell’s BONE TOMAHAWK

The Hateful Eight isn’t the only western Kurt Russell has coming out in the next year or so. In fact any Russell fan worth their salt knows that Bone Tomahawk is the western to anticipate over the next 12 months. S. Craig Zahler’s horror-western [...]

May 8, 2015

Trailer And Images For M. Night Shyamalan’s THE VISIT – He Might Have His Mojo Back

I’m hoping The Visit reawakens M. Night Shyamalan’s filmmaking mojo – and this trailer for the low budget Blumhouse horror looks like it has. Shyamalan knows how to build tension and get the best out of his actors (he teased great performances [...]

April 24, 2015

Poster For M. Night Shyamalan’s THE VISIT; Will It Be A Return To Form?

I really hope M. Night Shyamalan can return to form with The Visit. Shyamalan had a fantastic run with The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, Signs and The Village – and then things went downhill. The Lady In The Water had it’s moments, The Happening [...]

April 23, 2015

DVD Review: DARKEST DAY Is A Splendid Micro-Budget Zombie Movie With Great Special Effects

Darkest Day is a micro- budget British zombie movie (apparently it cost less than £1000) that manages to overcome any financial limitations to be an enjoyable romp with enough visual pizazz to make it worth the time of genre fans. Director Dan [...]

April 20, 2015

DVD Review: HEMLOCK GROVE Season 2 Descends Into Boring Teen Drama

The first season of Hemlock Grove was a fun horror show with ‘50s B-movie vibe that Movies In Focus called ‘Twin Peaks for the Twilight generation’. It wasn’t a great show by any stretch of the imagination but it felt like a show which [...]

April 19, 2015

DVD Review: Eduardo Sánchez Goes Back Into The Woods And Meets Bigfoot In EXISTS

Movies In Focus usually comes out all guns blazing when a new ‘found footage’ horror movie arrives. That particular visual aesthetic has been done to death since The Blair Witch Project arrived back in 1999 and there’s little left to say [...]

April 18, 2015

Poster For Arnold Schwarzenegger’s MAGGIE; This Zombie Drama Could Be Very Special

Arnold Schwarzenegger’s zombie drama Maggie looks like it could be something very special. Schwarzenegger himself has said that ‘it’s the most human role you’ve ever seen me take on’ and the film’s trailer implies that he might just be [...]

April 11, 2015

Does This New POLTERGEIST Poster Scare You?

The Sam Raimi produced remake of Poltergeist hits on 22 May. That means the marketing is ramping-up in order to inform the masses that it’s on the way. This new poster is an improvement over the last one but it has a strong Saw feel to it. Sam [...]

April 6, 2015

DVD Review: Daniel Radcliffe’s Performance Is The Best Thing About Alexandre Aja’s HORNS

Daniel Radcliffe is an actor that you’re either onboard with or not. Movies In Focus finds his over-enthusiastic off-screen persona a little grating. However, I have to concede that the Harry Potter star is really good in Horns, a fantasy-horror [...]

April 4, 2015

Need A Good Horror For 2015? THE HORDE Might Fit The Bill

You really can’t beat a good horror. It’s a genre that has been with cinema since its birth and it gives audiences a visceral experience like no other. Movies In Focus always keeps an eye-out for a horror movie that ticks the right boxes and The [...]

April 4, 2015

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