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 […]
Tag Archives: horror
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 […]
The Curse of La Llorona
Everyone’s favourite extended universe is back! But enough about Avengers: Endgame, here’s the new instalment in the Conjuring franchise. Producer James Wan has spent the last 6 years making monsters […]
Aliens
Fifty-seven years after Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) last thwarted the xenomorph she’s found alive floating through space. But her nightmare is only just beginning as she discovers her daughter is dead […]
Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives
Is there a series with more ironic subtitles than Friday the 13th? The Final Chapter was only the fourth instalment, followed by A New Beginning which it wasn’t, because the next film […]
Freaks
Freaks is a pre-Code film with one of the greatest taglines in movie history: “Can a full-grown woman truly love a midget?” Following the success of Universal’s Dracula, MGM asked […]
Pet Sematary
Stephen King’s famous story of the misspelled animal graveyard is exhumed 30 years after its original big-screen adaptation, this time from the producer of the Transformers films and starring Terminator […]
Screen Goblin 