The Orphanage
To quote my co-goblin Alex: “Why do people find orphans so scary?” From the shrill hysteria of Orphan to the shrill hysteria of Annie, cinema is rife with stories of […]
Tag Archives: horror
Jigsaw
7 years after we last saw John Kramer AKA the Jigsaw Killer comes this new Saw film. Remember the Saw films? They were one of these depressing noughties inventions, like Skins […]
The Killing of a Sacred Deer
Yorgos Lanthimos directs this follow-up to his 2015 film The Lobster. It follows a couple, doctors Anna and Steven (Nicole Kidman and Colin Farrell), whose children fall ill in unexplained […]
Happy Death Day
If you happened to watch Groundhog Day and thought “I wish this was a lame horror film”, then Happy Death Day is the movie for you. This slasher-comedy stars Jessica Rothe as […]
The Ritual
Director David Bruckner will be known among horror fans for the most memorable chapters of both The Signal and V/H/S. Now he’s back with this tale of a Swedish hiking holiday gone wrong. […]
Blacula
What’s the difference between Dracula and Theresa May? One lies in a coffin, the other lies while coughin’. And also lies in a coffin. As the name suggests, Blacula is a blaxploitation […]
Mother!
I’ve long recommended exercising caution around films with exclamation marks in their title, whether it’s Stop! or My Mom Will Shoot, Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!, Mamma Mia!, or Darren Aronofsky’s Noah! Ok that […]
It (2017)
The WCA (World Clown Association) have recently gotten hot under the ruffled collar over the new film of Stephen King’s It, worried that the killer clown antagonist will damage their in-no-way-terrifying […]
Stephen King’s It (1990)
Originally written in January 2014 No, this isn’t a film about the famous author losing a game of tag, it’s actually a horror film about a clown with non-specific motives […]
Christmas Evil
Concluding my confusingly-timed trilogy of Christmas horror movie reviews is Christmas Evil, described by John Waters as “the greatest Christmas movie ever made.” This ho-ho-horror film from 1980 has a couple […]
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