Candyman (2021)
A Chicago artist (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) spirals into madness after discovering the urban legend of Candyman, getting horribly stung by a bee and inexplicably neglecting to go to waspital. Jordan […]
Tag Archives: horror
Censor
A BBFC busybody breaks down in this British horror from Prano Bailey-Bond. Set during the Video Nasties scandal, Censor is a fresh take on an old favourite. The horror industry […]
Don’t Breathe 2
Between COVID and A Quiet Place 2 it might be easy to miss the release of another sensory sequel, Don’t Breathe 2, perhaps the most misjudged movie since United Passions. A […]
Jug Face
2013 horror movie Jug Face (AKA The Pit) reunites The Woman‘s Sean Bridgers, Lauren Ashley Carter and producer Lucky McKee for another genre gem set at the bloody intersection of […]
Demons 2
Lamberto Bava and Dario Argento’s 1986 sequel opens on a TV show about some teenagers finding the remains of the demons from Demons, which then escape the TV to attack […]
Straw Dogs
In Sam Peckinpah’s 1971 thriller Straw Dogs, American academic David (Dustin Hoffman) and his English wife Amy (Susan George) move to her tiny Cornish village with barely enough room to […]
Spiral: From the Book of Saw
It is ironic that the first film back in cinemas would be one so obviously destined for Poundland, where a fiver will soon buy you a DVD of Spiral: From […]
Video Nasty 9: The Burning
Five years after being burned in a prank gone wrong, a disfigured summer camp caretaker called Cropsy (Lou David) takes his revenge at a camp near an abandoned mine, thankfully […]
Things Heard & Seen
Amanda Seyfried goes from Oscar nomination to Netflix abomination in this new thriller about a cheating husband (James Norton) and a bulimic wife (that’s the extent of their characterisation) moving […]
Anna and the Apocalypse
An all-singing, all-shuffling ensemble deliver a pandemic in the key of George A. Romero in this 2017 zombie musical that one might call Song of the Dead. The singalong story […]
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