Horror can be pure fantastical escapism, but it can also serve a more important purpose. By creating a parallel experience, horror fiction can neutralise the very real horrors that lurk… Continue reading "5 Infectiously Good Pandemic Horror Novels"
Brothers and aspiring actors Dresden and Dominic Winters (Joey Kern and Luke Edwards) have one last chance to launch their Hollywood careers. Failure would see the both of them return… Continue reading "It’s Never Easy Getting Your Big Break: ‘A Beginner’s Guide to Snuff’ Shows Just How Far an Actor Will Go"
In 1996, Wes Craven’s Scream changed the landscape of mainstream horror. This change may not have lasted forever, but was certainly enough to give the films of the 1990s a… Continue reading "Copycat Killers: ‘Scream’ Versus ‘Halloween H20’"
Butt Boy tells the story of Chip Gutchel (Tyler Cornack, who also directed and co-wrote), an IT engineer bored of life. One day, after a routine prostate exam, he discovers… Continue reading "Plugging The Gap: ‘Butt Boy’ May Have The Most Absurd Premise of Any Film This Year"
There’s nothing more unsettling than the idea of someone being in your home, watching you. This uncanny sensation is just one of many things that psychological thriller from director Benjamin… Continue reading "The Man Behind The Mask: ‘Made Me Do It’ Is a Slasher With Depth"
Richard Wells, who often creates under the name Slippery Jack, is an artist whose work is steeped in horror and the macabre. With a fondness for traditional mediums that lends… Continue reading "Artist Richard Wells on Folk Horror, TV Work and His Upcoming Book"
Nautical horror has its own distinctive style. Creaking metal and salty sailors adrift on an endless ocean provide an inimitable sense of drama. The contrast between the cramped corridors of… Continue reading "Stranger Things Happen at Sea: ‘Sea Fever’ Plots a Safe Course Through Murky Waters"
Mother of Monsters is the eerily believable tale of a single mother convinced that her teenage son is a dangerous psychopath with murderous intent. Through stitched-together fragments of found footage,… Continue reading "Director Tucia Lyman on Found Footage Horror ‘Mother of Monsters’"
At a time when many are getting to grips with the idea of spending prolonged time in small spaces, we can all at least be glad that we aren’t sharing… Continue reading "Apartment Living Can Be Murder: Black Humour and Red Walls in ‘Why Don’t You Just Die!’"
With school shootings and mass tragedies becoming a fixture of our cultural moment, we are growing accustomed not only to mourning the dead, but also to apportioning blame. The stories… Continue reading "The Bad Seed: ‘Mother of Monsters’ Takes Parental Paranoia to New Heights"
What was meant to be a night of fun, debauchery and recreational drug use quickly turns into a gore-filled nightmare. Ravers tells the story of a group of friends led… Continue reading "Dance Beats and Beatdowns: ‘Ravers’ is a Welcome Change of Pace"
As a meditation on the duality of man, Robert Louis Stevenson‘s The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde remains a timeless classic. Few works of fiction can boast… Continue reading "Author Cooper Anderson on Jekyll and Hyde Re-imagining ‘Inner Workings’"
Anyone who was watching horror in the early to mid-00s will remember the abundance of East-Asian horror remakes that we were subjected to. It’s a tradition that seems to be… Continue reading "Copycat Killers: ‘Ringu’/’The Ring’ Versus ‘One Missed Call’"
With Bong Joon Ho‘s recent double-Oscar win for class-conscious Korean thriller Parasite, it’s more crucial than ever that we pretend to have been watching Korean cinema this whole time. If… Continue reading "Vampire Squid’s Top 9 Korean Horror Movies"
Not all films are created equal. Every genre has its instant hits that are remembered for generations. Unfortunately, these films also spawn their own brand of low-rent copycats, conceived as… Continue reading "Copycat Killers: ‘Jason X’ Versus ‘Alien’"