Q: The Winged Serpent
After The Shallows turned out to be the worst thing Blake Lively’s done since Ryan Reynolds, let’s see a monster-attack movie done properly. Q: The Winged Serpent is a creature feature about a […]
Tag Archives: horror
Goodnight Mommy
Trust the Austrians to put forward as their Oscar submission a wincingly nasty horror film, in which a woman (Susanne Wuest) returns home after surgery with a bandaged face and erratic behaviour, leaving her twin […]
Shocker
Shocker is a 1989 slasher by everyone’s favourite Baptist turned pornographer: the late, great Wes Craven. Mitch Pileggi plays TV repairman and serial killer Horace Pinker, who’s executed by electric chair […]
The Darkness
The latest laughable title from Bumhouse is The Darkness, not to be confused with the rock band of the same name – though like the band, this film is shrill and doomed to […]
Friend Request
Friend Request is directed by Simon Verhoeven, the grandson of German director Paul Verhoeven – as opposed to the famous Dutch director Paul Verhoeven (I’m confused). Friend Request is the latest entry into the surprisingly […]
Green Room
Green Room is a horror film starring Patrick Stewart and Anton Yelchin, making it something of a Trekgasm. Make that a Borgasm. Jeremy Saulnier’s new movie follows a punk band who end […]
Single White Female
Single White Female is a 1992 thriller about a New York woman (Bridget Fonda) whose new flatmate (Jennifer Jason Leigh) turns out to be the roommate from hell. And I don’t mean she steals […]
The Boy
From Magic to Saw, creepy dolls have been as important to horror as nudity and Jamie Lee Curtis. With their dead eyes and motionless faces, they’re the genre’s answer to Henry Cavill. The latest […]
The Witch
In 1630s New England, witchcraft tears apart a family and seriously spooks their livestock. The result is probably the best goat movie since The Sound of Music – with children almost as […]
The Fly II
The Fly II opens with a birth similar to the gruesome dream sequence in the original, but this time it’s for real and it’s the offspring of the original mad […]
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