Paranormal Activity
A wealthy couple buys a camera to track paranormal activity in their massive house in Oren Peli’s 2007 snooze he should have called The Rich Bore Project. If The Blair […]
Tag Archives: The Blair Witch Project
The Blair Witch Project
In efforts to make a film about local folklore, Heather, Mike and Josh (Heather Donahue, Michael C. Williams and Joshua Leonard) get lost in the woods in this 1999 pseudo-documentary they should […]
The ParaPod: A Very British Ghost Hunt
In the last couple of years we have seen films based on apps (Countdown, the Angry Birds movies, that M. Night Shyamalan one about the ageing filter), social media (Unfriended, […]
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. […]
Blog: Cinematic Crescendos
It’s conventional movie wisdom that the most exciting stuff should happen at the end. But there are some films which crescendo in a notably incredible way, going from humble beginnings […]
Open Water
With Gravity still orbiting cinemas, let’s look at another sea sickness-inducing survival movie. Made in 2003 and based on real events, Open Water follows a couple whose scuba diving holiday […]
In Fear
After a year of disappointing horror films, finally a new release breathes some life into the genre. In Fear is a low-budget British offering which could teach a thing or […]
Lose Found Footage
Aren’t we all getting bored of found footage films now? Presenting a movie as real footage recovered from some genuine event was once an innovative technique, but today it’s rare […]
Screen Goblin 