The ParaPod: A Very British Ghost Hunt
In the last couple of years we have seen films based on apps (Countdown, the Angry Birds movies, that M. Night Shyamalan one about the ageing filter), social media (Unfriended, […]
Tag Archives: horror
Relic
Dark Water meets The Shining in Natalie Erika James’ Australian chiller about three women (Emily Mortimer, Robyn Nevin and Bella Heathcote) going mad in a house. It was 2020, what […]
FrightFest 2021: The Advent Calendar
When paraplegic ex-dancer Eva (Eugénie Derouand) is given an antique German advent calendar, she discovers that behind each door lurks disaster, desire fulfilment and death. And chocolate, obviously. Originally just […]
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 […]
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 […]
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