Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan
The only Friday the 13th film to share its subtitle with a Muppet movie, 1989’s Jason Takes Manhattan opens with a canoodling couple boating on Crystal Lake. Just as the horny […]
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Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers
As if to confirm the pointlessness of these Halloween sequels, they were officially erased by last year’s direct follow-up to the original, and that sequel was inexplicably also called Halloween. […]
Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood
After the diminishing returns of the previous few Friday the 13th movies, the producers sought to reinvigorate the series by pitching Freddy vs. Jason in order to capitalise on the rival […]
In the Mouth of Madness
Sam Neill investigates the disappearance of a popular horror novelist whose books are making people go crazy, in the third part of John Carpenter’s Apocalypse Trilogy, not to be confused […]
Ma
New stalker movie Ma joins the ranks of horror films that sound like animal noises, alongside Raw and Scream (if you’ve ever heard foxes having sex). Octavia Spencer gives a Masterclass as […]
Phantasm
A hooded dwarf. A guitar-playing ice cream man. A shapeshifting mortician. But enough about the Brexit Party MEPs; let’s talk Phantasm. This 1979 cult horror is written, directed, produced, edited […]
Halloween & Halloween II
Halloween (1978) was not the first holiday-themed slasher movie, but its success triggered a slew of identikit festival fright flicks called things like April Fool’s Day, Silent Night Deadly Night and […]
Video Nasty 11: Cannibal Ferox
1981 Italian nasty Cannibal Ferox (which could be the name of an American news anchor, like Wolf Blitzer) follows an academic (Lorraine De Selle) who heads into the Amazon to […]
The Dark Eyes of London
Bela Lugosi plays Orloff, an ex-doctor-cum-insurance salesman who becomes a person of interest in a homicide inquiry after the bodies of several of his clients are found in Thames. This […]
High Life
A group of criminals (including Robert Pattinson, Mia Goth and André 3000) are sent into space to extract an alternative energy source from a black hole while a perverted doctor […]
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