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 […]
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Fatal Attraction
Glenn Close goes hopping mad in the thriller that spawned countless copycats and the expression “bunny boiler,” while the word “myxomapsychosis” sadly never caught on. Fatal Attraction isn’t the first […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
Not only does Friday the 13th mark the day Donald Trump descended upon the UK, it’s also Jason Vorhees’ birthday (not sure how that works). So let’s raise a glass […]
Alice, Sweet Alice
A withdrawn 12-year-old (Paula Sheppard) becomes the prime suspect when her younger sister (Brooke Shields) is murdered during her first communion, in Alice, Sweet Alice – AKA Communion, Holy Terror and Feather Ded. OK I […]
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 […]
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