Opening in an eerily quiet chapel, this week’s Dragula smashes iconic horror and camp comedy together with its exorcism theme. The conversation in the boudoir this episode is quite a… Continue reading "Exorsisters: ‘The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula’ Season 4, Episode 7 Recap"
Drawing inspiration from such icons as the Big Bad Wolf, the Beast from Beauty and the Beast and Sully from Monsters Inc., the latest episode of Dragula embraces the concept… Continue reading "Hair-Raising Scenes: ‘The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula’ Season 4, Episode 6 Recap"
Drag, filth and horror have all been showcased so far in the new season of The Boulet Brothers’ ‘Dragula. This week’s episode is devoted to platforming glamour. Centred on a… Continue reading "Troubled Waters: ‘The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula’ Season 4, Episode 5 Recap"
After kicking off with a series of grim and spooky themes, episode four of the new season of The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula embraces the fun and performative side of the… Continue reading "Monsters of Rock: ‘The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula’ Season 4, Episode 4 Recap"
Just three episodes into the new season of The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula, the competition is already fiercer than ever. Usually, this early on in any reality competition, there are a… Continue reading "Weird Wild West: ‘The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula’ Season 4, Episode 3 Recap"
The thrilling kick off to the fourth season of The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula set the bar for the rest of competition tantalisingly high. Both the show in general and each… Continue reading "Queens of the Damned: ‘The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula’ Season 4, Episode 2 Recap"
Antlers, a monster movie with brains and brawn from director Scott Cooper, sees Julia Meadows (Keri Russell) return to her hometown to take up a teaching position. It hasn’t been… Continue reading "Red in Tooth and Claw: ‘Antlers’ is a Bleak and Bloodthirsty Tale"
Icons of drag, horror, filth and glamour, The Boulet Brothers are back on our screens with the fourth season of their reality competition series Dragula. The show has undergone a… Continue reading "A New Nightmare: ‘The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula’ Season 4, Episode 1 Recap"
When comedians Barry Dodds and Ian Boldsworth began The Parapod in 2015, there was no way they could have predicted that their niche podcast would become a multi-award-winning cult success.… Continue reading "Friendship Ghouls: ‘The Parapod Movie’ Takes Us on a Supernatural Road Trip"
For all of its murderous pretensions, When the Screaming Starts is a surprisingly gentle comedy. It has as much to say about unlikely friendships and thwarted ambitions as it does… Continue reading "Making a Murderer: ‘When the Screaming Starts’ Shows the Lighter Side of Serial Killing"
The aptly named Bishop (Michael Lombardi) is pastor to a small congregation in an out-of-the-way town in this horror/thriller hybrid. As well as his modest flock, Bishop is responsible for… Continue reading "Rock and Roll Revenge: A Pastor is Pushed Too Far in ‘The Retaliators’"
Demonic, the latest film from South African-Canadian wunderkind Neil Blomkamp, begins with protagonist Carly (Carly Pope) searching through an abandoned mental hospital for her mother Angela (Nathalie Boltt). This opening… Continue reading "Ghosts in the Machine: Neil Blomkamp’s ‘Demonic’ Melds Tech with the Occult"
In Jakob’s Wife, horror icon Barbara Crampton plays Anne, quietly unfulfilled wife to small-town pastor Jakob Fedder (Larry Fessenden). Although the film hints at an energetic and adventurous past, Anne’s… Continue reading "Love Bites: Marital Strife and Vampire Lore Collide in ‘Jakob’s Wife’"
There’s something purely primal about how far a parent will go to protect their child, which is probably why it’s such a commonly explored theme in horror. Ivan Kavanagh’s Son… Continue reading "Family Ties: Maternal Instincts Face Off Against Satanic Mischief in ‘Son’"
In a fusion of pint-sipping and vampire-slaying, director Chris Baugh sinks his teeth into some Dracula folk-lore whilst adding a parodic twist in his latest comedy horror The Boys from… Continue reading "Blood, Beer and Half-Pulled Heart Strings in Irish Vampire Movie ‘Boys From County Hell’"