FrightFest 2023: Departing Seniors
Days before graduation, a set of high school bullies are given a bloody send-off by a masked killer in indie slasher Departing Seniors; a punny title likely lost on British […]
Days before graduation, a set of high school bullies are given a bloody send-off by a masked killer in indie slasher Departing Seniors; a punny title likely lost on British […]
When Jess (Hayley Erin) goes on the run from a mysterious organisation, they send special agent Elsa (Sonya Walger) to pursue her. Knowing people called Elsa’s distaste for letting things […]
A farmhouse is besieged by birds in Alfred Hitchcock’s Flight of the Living Dead. Often parroted but never bettered, this 1963 chick flick does for birds as Jaws did for […]
Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund) is resurrected when a dog pisses fire on his remains (really) in this slog of a sequel from 1988. Abandoning the novel angle established by Dream […]
George A. Romero and Italian superfan/collaborator Dario Argento go bigger, bloodier and bitier in this 1978 sequel to Romero’s epochal apocalypse picture. Dawn of the Dead comes 10 years after […]
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest meets Stephen King’s It in this 1987 threequel, when the Elm Street kids wind up in a hospital for the criminally underslept. After being […]
The corpses of Pennsylvania rise from the dead and eat people in George A. Romero‘s cannibalistic classic. Let’s call it The Pittsburgh Body-Stealers. Probably the most important horror movie of […]
A new family moves into 1428 Elm Street after getting a cheap deal on the hot (or very recently on fire) property, only to find its electrical appliances and household […]
Sorority Row joined a slew of slasher remakes circa 2009 to form whatever’s the opposite of a genre revival. Let’s call it the noughties slasher burial. A mangled mixer of […]
Just when you thought Ben Wheatley’s career couldn’t get any more depressing after the Netflix remake of Rebecca, the British director sinks to new depths with this sequel to 2018 […]