Candy Allison / Contributor 07/10/2022 Candy Allison / Contributor 07/10/2022

[Editorial] An Intervention with Frank Henenlotter’s Brain Damage

Come with me. Let’s sit down. I’ve been worried about you. I know you think Frank Henenlotter is a director of schlock and exploitation and his movies aren’t too great. I know you find Brain Damage silly.

Kim Morrison / Senior Contributor & Social Manager 25/09/2022 Kim Morrison / Senior Contributor & Social Manager 25/09/2022

[Mother of Fears] A Mother Never Forgives in The Woman in Black (2012)

In the remote village of Crythin Gifford, not everything is as it seems. The quaint location seems like it would be the perfect place to relax and enjoy the peace, but the residents of Crythin Gifford have reason to hold their children extra tightly and shield them from the horrors lurking in this slice of the English countryside…

Rebecca McCallum / Assistant Editor 21/09/2022 Rebecca McCallum / Assistant Editor 21/09/2022

[Editorial] I’m Your No.1 Fan: Closets, Mazes & Burning Books - How Carrie, The Shining & Misery Soothe my Anxiety

In most instances, fiction writers can be divided into two categories: those who base their stories on their own personal experiences, and those who delve entirely into their own imagination.

Kim Morrison / Senior Contributor & Social Manager 19/09/2022 Kim Morrison / Senior Contributor & Social Manager 19/09/2022

[Editorial] I’m Your No.1 Fan: Sleeping with the Dead in Salem’s Lot (1979)

In the small town of Salem’s Lot, everyone knows everyone else’s business. They know that ‘Boom Boom’ Bonnie is having an affair with her boss, they know that Weasel still lives in the boarding house owned by his ex Eva Miller, and they know when strangers come to town.

Kim Morrison / Senior Contributor & Social Manager 27/08/2022 Kim Morrison / Senior Contributor & Social Manager 27/08/2022

[Mother of Fears] Be Seen And Not Heard in The People Under the Stairs

For Mommy in The People Under the Stairs, that means stealing children from the neighbourhood in the hopes of being delivered a perfect child without having to give birth to it and raise it herself. …

Grace Britten / Contributor 19/07/2022 Grace Britten / Contributor 19/07/2022

[Editorial] Excision: Devotion to The Bloody Self

Excision is a forcefully welcomed film that leaves a mark on the viewer like a gaping wound…

Liz DeGregorio / Senior Contributor 30/06/2022 Liz DeGregorio / Senior Contributor 30/06/2022

[Editorial] The Low-Key Bisexuality of May (2002)

Lucky McKee's cult classic May (2002) introduces viewers to a lonely young woman (Angela Bettis) who longs for connection and understanding…

Nicola Ryan / Contributor 27/06/2022 Nicola Ryan / Contributor 27/06/2022

[Editorial] 25 Years Later: Perfect Blue (1997)

One film renowned as one of the most influential anime films of all time is Satoshi Kon’s debut feature film, Perfect Blue…

Kim Morrison / Senior Contributor & Social Manager 26/06/2022 Kim Morrison / Senior Contributor & Social Manager 26/06/2022

[Mother of Fears] Paranoid Pregnancy in False Positive

Welcome to Mother of Fears – a monthly column that will explore the various roles that mothers play within the horror genre…

Melinda Catherine Gross / Contributor 21/06/2022 Melinda Catherine Gross / Contributor 21/06/2022

[Editorial] Feed Me, Daddy

Passion, horror, and love make for a powerful triangle. This is especially true when paired against the idea of being alone…

Nicole Sanacore / Contributor 15/06/2022 Nicole Sanacore / Contributor 15/06/2022

[Editorial] Mom, Dad, I’m a Vampire: LGBT Themes in My Best Friend Is a Vampire

The ‘80s provides no shortage of low-budget, campy teen-horror movies like Fright Night (1985) and Teen Wolf (1985), but less discussed among them is 1987’s My Best Friend Is a Vampire…

Sarah Miles / Contributor 07/06/2022 Sarah Miles / Contributor 07/06/2022

[Editorial] J-Horror: Ring (1998) versus The Ring (2002)

Two teenage girls sit in a bedroom, discussing a strange urban legend. It’s about a video tape containing strange images all centred around a mysterious woman…

Kim Morrison / Senior Contributor & Social Manager 22/05/2022 Kim Morrison / Senior Contributor & Social Manager 22/05/2022

[Mother of Fears] Meta Mothering in Wes Craven’s New Nightmare

Welcome to Mother of Fears – a monthly column that will explore the various roles that mothers play within the horror genre…

Jenn Adams / Contributor 15/05/2022 Jenn Adams / Contributor 15/05/2022

[Editorial] And What Will Be Left of Them: Sally Hardesty and the Emotional Weight of Survival

Trauma is the essence of horror. Though terrifying stories may differ wildly, the one common thread is the fear of physical or emotional pain suffered by a protagonist…

Ariel Baska / Contributor 10/05/2022 Ariel Baska / Contributor 10/05/2022

[Editorial] #HeldByHorror: How 'Starfish' represents the horror of living with PTSD

This week is #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek and filmmaker, podcaster and writer, Ariel Baska, talks about the horror movie Starfish.

Liz DeGregorio / Senior Contributor 29/04/2022 Liz DeGregorio / Senior Contributor 29/04/2022

[Editorial] Carmilla Isn't Just a Lesbian Vampire – She's Also a Really Bad Girlfriend

Whether she's known by Carmilla, Mircalla or Millarca, the bewitching queer vampire at the heart of Irish author Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's 1872 novella Carmilla …

Kim Morrison / Senior Contributor & Social Manager 28/04/2022 Kim Morrison / Senior Contributor & Social Manager 28/04/2022

[Editorial] My Arms Are Hungry for You-A Study of Lucy Westenra in Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)

In Francis Ford Coppola’s adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992), the story mainly centres around Mina, the fiancée of solicitor Jonathan Harker, and the possible reincarnation of Dracula’s first love, Elisabeta

Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana / Senior Contributor 28/04/2022 Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana / Senior Contributor 28/04/2022

[Editorial] Droch Fola (Evil Blood): The Irish Vampire

A billowing silken black cloak envelopes a tall, pale European aristocratic gentleman

Kim Morrison / Senior Contributor & Social Manager 25/04/2022 Kim Morrison / Senior Contributor & Social Manager 25/04/2022

[Mother of Fears] Fighting Real-Life Monsters in Cujo (1983)

Welcome to Mother of Fears – a monthly column that will explore the various roles that mothers play within the horror genre…

Hannah Ogilvie / Contributor 17/04/2022 Hannah Ogilvie / Contributor 17/04/2022

[Editorial] The Blood Soaked Woman – An Observation and Reading of a Horror Trope

It’s an image we have seen over and over again; a woman, head to toe saturated in blood, the whites of her eyes piercing through the red – she is transformed…