The Hills Have Eyes
An affluent nuclear family’s RV breaks down on a military testing site where they’re terrorised by a nuclear family of a not-so-different kind. Wes Craven’s The Hills Have Eyes is […]
Tag Archives: Scream
Tucker & Dale vs. Evil
A group of teenagers interrupt a hillbilly fishing trip in this sar-donic slasher from 2010. Probably the most interesting slasher flick since Scream, Tucker & Dale vs. Evil retells a […]
Ring
A journalist (Nanako Matsushima) faces the toughest deadline of her career when she’s given 7 days to live after watching a cursed videotape that resembles one of David Lynch’s home […]
The Babysitter: Killer Queen
The babysitter (Samara Weaving) is not back in this Netflix sequel to a movie whose sole redeeming feature was Samara Weaving. Two years after thwarting a cabal of Satanists, Cole […]
Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday
Released a whole 4 years after Jason Takes Manhattan, Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday is yet another misleading title since a) he doesn’t and b) it isn’t. From the […]
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later is one of the world’s clumsiest titles, not least because the movie has nothing to do with water so it’s not even a pun. This […]
Edvard Munch: Love and Angst
Until 21st July the British Museum plays host to the work of the Norwegian expressionist best known for The Scream (1893), which would eventually inspire the greatest film ever based […]
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 […]
Suspiria
Dario Argento’s 1977 giallo follows an American ballet student (Jessica Harper) who goes to Germany to attend the most prestigious dance school in Europe. Imagine the Grand Budapest Hotel converted into an abattoir. […]
The Craft
Four amateur witches (Robin Tunney, Fairuza Balk, Neve Campbell and Rachel True) find that witchcraft is no joke in this oddly humourless teen movie from 1996. Around this time, TV’s Buffy and Wes Craven’s Scream spearheaded a […]
