The Possession of Hannah Grace
The Possession of Hannah Grace is one of those titles, like The Exorcism of Emily Rose, that makes you think: don’t give your daughter 2 first names unless you want her getting […]
Tag Archives: horror
Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde
In searching for the elixir of life, Dr. Jekyll’s (Ralph Bates) self-experimentation transforms him into Mrs. Hyde (Martine Beswick) in this Hammer Horror from 1971. Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde might […]
Suspiria (2018)
Dakota Johnson (50 Shades of Grey) is admitted to a West Berlin dance academy run by witches in this 2.5-hour horror remake. Talk about a glutton for punishment… Director Luca […]
Slaughterhouse Rulez
This is not a prequel to Slaughterhouse-Five but the first film from Simon Pegg and Nick Frost’s production company Stolen Picture. A horror-comedy set at an If….-inspired boarding school, Slaughterhouse Rulez is iffy in […]
Friday the 13th: A New Beginning
For Halloween I set myself the limit of only spending as much on my costume as Kevin Spacey’s latest film took at the box office, so I’ve got hold of […]
Halloween (2018)
Just in time for 2 weeks before Halloween comes this reboot of John Carpenter’s classic slasher, set 40 years after the original. In it, Michael Myers escapes incarceration and goes […]
Killer’s Moon
This British slasher from 1978 follows a group of choir girls on a coach trip to the Lake District, just about the most English premise imaginable (short of sending them to […]
Slender Man
Let me start with some real-world background: in 2014, an American kid stabbed a classmate in the woods after reportedly being inspired by Slender Man, a meme that came from […]
Unfriended: Dark Web
Unfriended: Dark Web is the latest entry into the internet-based found footage sub-genre, or ‘pwned footage’ for short. More an anthology-style successor than a sequel to 2014’s Unfriended (which is […]
Re-Animator
Today we look back on Re-Animator to celebrate H. P. Lovecraft’s birthday; a writer whose ideas still echo loudly around the horror genre and certain parts of the Labour Party. Jeffrey […]
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