My Little Eye
There’s a horror sub-genre that exploits the latest game/gameshow fads, recent examples being last year’s Escape Room, the Apprentice-style Exam or the downright horrific Starter For 10. So while we […]
Tag Archives: horror
Ouija (2014)
From the company that brought you Transformers, Battleship and Jenga 2: The Brickening (it’s only a matter of time) comes Ouija, a horror movie based on the famous bit of wood. […]
Prom Night (2008)
Having run out of decent slasher flicks to remake in the noughties (A Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween, Black “X-Mas”), Hollywood started scraping the barrel for properties that weren’t even […]
Shivers
All this business with Dominic Cummings has got me thinking about David Cronenberg’s Shivers. Movies about viruses were spreading in the early ’70s (George A. Romero’s The Crazies and Robert […]
The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires
As these are “unprecedented times” (by which I mean a year without Eurovision), here’s a book review: the new novel by the great horror writer Grady Hendrix, in which a […]
Ginger Snaps
Brigitte and Ginger (Emily Perkins and Katharine Isabelle) are goth sisters who spend their time hanging out in their prison cell of a bedroom, staging their own deaths for school […]
Demons
The great thing about genre is that classics and VHS bargain bin staples are often one and the same. Demons is such a film; a “Spaghetti Splatter” cult favourite about a zombie […]
Color Out of Space
A meteorite causes paranormal disturbances on a farm in this new horror/Lovecraft/Nicolas Cage movie that they should have called Poultrygeist. Except they couldn’t because a) it’s an alpaca farm and […]
The Invisible Man (2020)
Everyone’s favourite see-through scientist (sorry Invisible Woman) is back in this new thriller starring Elisabeths Moths. https://twitter.com/notwilliamhmacy/status/1158971367020257281 Following Tom Cruise’s instant destruction of the Universal Dark Universe (meaning we’ll never […]
The Invisible Man (1933)
An invisible man (Claude Rains) arrives at a remote inn shrouded in goggles, overcoat and secrecy. After he’s aggravated by an over-helpful landlady he goes on a naked rampage against […]
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