Jill Gevargizian is the director behind horror film, The Stylist, which follows a young hair stylist who has a penchant for snipping and scalping her clients in order to imagine herself in their hair. Ghouls Magazine writer, Ariel Baska, was lucky enough to chat to Jill all about her latest film and the inspiration behind it.

A Quiet Place (2018) opens 89 days after a race of extremely sound-sensitive creatures show up on Earth, perhaps from an exterritorial source. If you make any noise, even the slightest sound, you’re likely to be pounced upon by these extremely strong and staggeringly fast creatures and suffer a brutal death.

22 Oct 2023

19 Oct 2023

[Event Review] Highlights from Mayhem Film Festival 2023

19 Oct 2023

Have I told you about Mayhem Film Festival before? It’s a favourite event of mine, so I’ve blurted about it in anticipation to many people I know. The event has just passed, so now is the time to gush its praises to those I don’t know.

19 Oct 2023

18 Oct 2023

[Editorial] Mayhem Festival: Interview with Thomas Sainsbury on Loop Track (2023)

18 Oct 2023

Loop Track, Thomas Sainsbury’s directorial debut, has such a sparse description that it’s really difficult to know what you’re stepping into when it starts. It’s about Ian (played by the director), who is taking a trek through the New Zealand bush….

18 Oct 2023

17 Oct 2023

[Editorial] Keeping Odd Hours: A Retrospective on Near Dark (1987)

17 Oct 2023

For a movie that doesn’t even mention the word “vampire” once throughout the length of the film, Near Dark (1987) is a unique entry in the vampire film genre.

17 Oct 2023

14 Oct 2023

[Editorial] 5 Female Focused Horror Book Recommendations

14 Oct 2023

If you like cults, sacrificial parties, and lesbian undertones then Mona Awad’s Bunny is the book for you. Samantha, a student at a prestigious art university, feels isolated from her cliquey classmates, ‘the bunnies’.

14 Oct 2023

13 Oct 2023

[Editorial] What to Watch at This Year's Cine-Excess International Film Festival 2023

13 Oct 2023

Kicking off on Tuesday 17th October, the 2023 edition considers the cinematic, social and cultural significance of the possessed, supernatural and unclean body onscreen.

13 Oct 2023

12 Oct 2023

[Editorial] Cherish Your Life: Comfort in the SAW Franchise Throughout and Beyond the COVID-19 Pandemic

12 Oct 2023

I was aware of the COVID-19 pandemic before I knew that’s what it would be called, and before it ever affected me personally. My husband is always on top of world events, and in late 2019, he explained what was happening around the globe.

12 Oct 2023

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15 Oct 2023

[Editorial] “I control my life, not you!”: Living with Generalised Anxiety Disorder and the catharsis of the Final Destination franchise

15 Oct 2023

I can sometimes go months without having a panic attack. Unfortunately, this means that when they do happen, they often feel like they come out of nowhere. They can come on so fast and hard it’s like being hit by a bus, my breath escapes my body, and I can’t get it back.

15 Oct 2023

5 Oct 2023

[Editorial] 5 Slasher Short Horror Films

5 Oct 2023

When people think of horror films, slashers are often the first thing that comes to mind. The sub-genres also spawned a wealth of horror icons: Freddy, Jason, Michael, Chucky - characters so recognisable we’re on first name terms with them. In many ways the slasher distills the genre down to some of its fundamental parts - fear, violence and murder.

5 Oct 2023

3 Oct 2023

[Ghouls Podcast] Maniac (2012) with Zoë Rose Smith and Iona Smith

3 Oct 2023

Throughout September we were looking at slasher films, and therefore we decided to cover a slasher film that could be considered as an underrated gem in the horror genre. And the perfect film for this was Franck Khalfoun’s 2012 remake of MANIAC.

3 Oct 2023

24 Sept 2023

[Editorial] If Looks Could Kill: Tom Savini’s Practical Effects in Maniac (1980)

24 Sept 2023

In the late seventies and early eighties, one man was considered the curator of all things gore in America. During the lovingly named splatter decade, Tom Savini worked on masterpieces of blood and viscera like Dawn of the Dead (1978), a film which gained the attention of hopeful director William Lustig, a man only known for making pornography before his step into horror.

24 Sept 2023

11 Sept 2023

[Editorial] Deeper Cuts: 13 Non-Typical Slashers

11 Sept 2023

Looking for some different slasher film recommendations? Then look no fruther as Ariel Powers-Schaub has 13 non-typical slasher horror films for you to watch.

11 Sept 2023

10 Sept 2023

[Editorial] Editor’s Note: Making a slash back into September

10 Sept 2023

Even though they are not to my personal liking, there is no denying that slasher films have been an important basis for the horror genre, and helped to build the foundations for other sub-genres throughout the years.

10 Sept 2023

31 Aug 2023

[Editorial] 8 Mind Horror Short films

31 Aug 2023

But some of the most terrifying horrors are those that take place entirely under the skin, where the mind is the location of the fear. Psychological horror has the power to unsettle by calling into question the basis of the self - one's own brain.

31 Aug 2023

20 Aug 2023

[Editorial] Eat Shit and Die: Watching The Human Centipede (2009) in Post-Roe America

20 Aug 2023

On Saturday, 17th June 2023, I sat down with two friends to watch The Human Centipede (First Sequence) (2009) and The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence) (2012). I was nervous to be grossed out (I can’t really handle the idea of eating shit) but excited to cross these two films off my list.

20 Aug 2023

13 Aug 2023

[Editorial] Top 15 Female-Focused Mind Horror Films

13 Aug 2023

Many of the most effective horror films involve blurring the lines between waking life and a nightmare. When women in horror are emotionally and psychologically manipulated – whether by other people or more malicious supernatural forces – viewers are pulled into their inner worlds, often left with a chilling unease and the question of where reality ends and the horror begins.

13 Aug 2023

31 Jul 2023

[Editorial] 8 Body Horror Short films

31 Jul 2023

Body horror is one of the fundamental pillars of the horror genre and crops up in some form or another in a huge variety of works. There's straightforward gore - the inherent horror of seeing the body mutilated, and also more nuanced fears.

31 Jul 2023

24 Jul 2023

[Editorial] Metal Heart: Body Dysmorphia As A Battle Ground In Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989)

24 Jul 2023

In the sweaty summer of 1989, emerging like a monochrome migraine from the encroaching shadow of Japan’s economic crash, Shin’ya Tsukamoto’s Tetsuo: The Iron Man shocked and disgusted the (very few) audiences originally in attendance.

24 Jul 2023

15 Jul 2023

[Editorial] Top 15 Female-Focused Body Horror Films

15 Jul 2023

Whether it's the havoc wreaked on the human body during pregnancy, emotional turmoil producing tiny murderous humans or simply a body turning on its owner, body horror films tend to be shocking. But while they're full of grotesque imagery, they're also full of thoughtful premises and commentary, especially when it comes to women, trauma, and power.

15 Jul 2023

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25 Oct 2023

[Event Review] Saw the Musical: The Unauthorized Parody (2023)

25 Oct 2023

For any horror fan, a musical parody of the Saw franchise would be a treat. But a very campy, very queer musical reimagining of the plot? Now that's a little piece of heaven.

25 Oct 2023

23 Oct 2023

[Book Review] The Book of Queer Saints Volume II (2023)

23 Oct 2023

Happily, her new anthology The Book of Queer Saints Volume II is being released this October. With this new collection, queer horror takes center stage.

23 Oct 2023

20 Oct 2023

[Film Review] Sympathy for the Devil (2023)

20 Oct 2023

If you know me at all, you know that I love, as many people do, the work of Nic Cage. Live by the Cage, die by the Cage. So, when the opportunity to review this came up, I jumped at it.

20 Oct 2023

18 Oct 2023

[Film Review] V/H/S/85 (2023)

18 Oct 2023

When V/H/S first hit our screens in 2012, nobody could have foreseen that 11 years later we’d be on our sixth instalment (excluding the two spinoffs) of the series.

18 Oct 2023

17 Oct 2023

[Film Review] Kill Your Lover (2023)

17 Oct 2023

When someone is in a toxic relationship, it can affect more than just their heart and mind. Their bodies can weaken or change due to the continued stress and unhappiness that comes from the toxicity.

17 Oct 2023

11 Oct 2023

[Film Review] Shaky Shivers (2022)

11 Oct 2023

If you can’t count on your best friend to check your teeth and hands and stand vigil with you all night to make sure you don’t wolf out, who can you count on? And so begins our story on anything but an ordinary night in 1993…

11 Oct 2023

9 Oct 2023

[Film Review] Elevator Game (2023)

9 Oct 2023

The best thing about urban legends is the delicious thrill of the forbidden. Don’t say “Bloody Mary” in the mirror three times in a dark room unless you’re brave enough to summon her. Don’t flash your headlights at a car unless you want to have them drive you to your death.

9 Oct 2023

7 Oct 2023

[Book Review] Wylding Hall (2015)

7 Oct 2023

It's fitting that Elizabeth Hand's novel Wylding Hall (2015) won the Shirley Jackson Award; her writing echoes and pays homage to the subtle scariness and psychological horror of Shirley Jackson's works.

7 Oct 2023

4 Oct 2023

[Film Review] A Wounded Fawn (2022)

4 Oct 2023

A Wounded Fawn (Travis Stevens, 2022) celebrates both art history and female rage in this surreal take on the slasher genre.

4 Oct 2023

2 Oct 2023

[Film Review] Perpetrator (2023)

2 Oct 2023

Perpetrator opens with a girl walking alone in the dark. Her hair is long and loose just begging to be yanked back and her bright clothes—a blood red coat, in fact—is a literal matador’s cape for anything that lies beyond the beam of her phone screen.

2 Oct 2023