Iona Smith / Senior Contributor & Events Organiser 14/04/2022 Iona Smith / Senior Contributor & Events Organiser 14/04/2022

[Event Review] 2:22 A Ghost Story

From the beginning, 2:22 sets a tone that will haunt you for the rest of the show…

Amber T / Contributor 21/03/2022 Amber T / Contributor 21/03/2022

[Event Review] Final Girls Berlin - Part 3: Social Ills and Envy

Final Girls Berlin Part 3

Melissa Cox / Contributor 14/03/2022 Melissa Cox / Contributor 14/03/2022

[Event Review] Final Girls Film Festival Berlin - Shorts Selection

Final Girls Film Festival Berlin - Shorts Selection

Amber T / Contributor 09/03/2022 Amber T / Contributor 09/03/2022

[Event Review] Final Girls Berlin - Part 2: Queer Horror and Midnight

Final Girls Berlin Part 2

Amber T / Contributor 27/02/2022 Amber T / Contributor 27/02/2022

[Event Review] Final Girls Berlin - Part 1: Gluttony, Menaces & Medical Horror

Final Girls Berlin Part 1

Ariel Powers-Schaub / Senior Contributor & Admin Assistant 23/12/2021 Ariel Powers-Schaub / Senior Contributor & Admin Assistant 23/12/2021

[Editorial] Ho Ho Horrible Imaginings Film Festival 2021

What could be a better way to boost the holiday spirit than a mini-festival of spooky seasonal short films? Before the holiday season gets maximally crazy…

Jerry Sampson / Senior Contributor 03/12/2021 Jerry Sampson / Senior Contributor 03/12/2021

[Event Review] FilmQuest Film Festival

The most fantastic genre fest in the galaxy…

Iona Smith / Senior Contributor & Events Organiser 16/11/2021 Iona Smith / Senior Contributor & Events Organiser 16/11/2021

[Event Review] Lights Out (2021)

Part of London Horror Festival at The Pleasance Theatre, Lights Out was a Merely Roleplayers and Blackshaw Theatre Company co-production inspired by the game Ten Candles…

Hannah Ogilvie / Contributor 04/11/2021 Hannah Ogilvie / Contributor 04/11/2021

[Editorial] Celluloid Screams: Interview with Max Booth III writer of We Need to Do Something

I was lucky enough to catch up with screenwriter Max Booth III of We Need to Do Something at this years Celluloid Screams: Sheffield Horror Festival…

Iona Smith / Senior Contributor & Events Organiser 03/11/2021 Iona Smith / Senior Contributor & Events Organiser 03/11/2021

[Editorial] London Horror Festival: Scare Slam (2021)

The 6th annual Scare Slam, part of the London Horror Festival, was held in the downstairs of The Pleasance Theatre…

Sam Vargas / Contributor 03/11/2021 Sam Vargas / Contributor 03/11/2021

[Editorial] Brooklyn Horror Film Festival 2021

While most horror fans might envision desolate cabins or sheltered, suburban neighborhoods as the backdrop for their favorite midnight movies…

Jerry Sampson / Senior Contributor 02/11/2021 Jerry Sampson / Senior Contributor 02/11/2021

[Editorial] Nightstream Film Festival 2021

Through a collaborative effort from some of the most hard-working genre festival programmers, NIGHTSTREAM presents a thrilling…

Robyn Adams / Contributor 20/10/2021 Robyn Adams / Contributor 20/10/2021

[Editorial] Top 5 Short Horror Films from Grimmfest 2021

Grimmfest, for those of you who are unfamiliar, is probably the biggest genre film festival in the north of England…

Jerry Sampson / Senior Contributor 16/09/2021 Jerry Sampson / Senior Contributor 16/09/2021

[Event Review] Portland Horror Film Festival

The Hollywood Theater, where the Portland Horror Film Festival is held, is one of the city’s most beloved institutions…

Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana / Senior Contributor 03/08/2021 Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana / Senior Contributor 03/08/2021

[Editorial] North Bend Film Festival 2021

This year’s North Bend Film Festival brought the fantastical, eclectic and surreal to the big screen and it’s audiences…

Elizabeth Bishop / Senior Contributor 31/07/2021 Elizabeth Bishop / Senior Contributor 31/07/2021

[Editorial] Preview: Fantasia International Film Festival 2021

Quentin Tarantino dubs it “the most important and prestigious genre film festival in the world” and Guillermo Del Toro calls it “a shrine”

Jerry Sampson / Senior Contributor 22/06/2021 Jerry Sampson / Senior Contributor 22/06/2021

[Event Review] Bye Bye Bad Taste Festival

From the filmmaker who brought us this year’s rip-roaring I Need You Dead! comes the Bye Bye Bad Taste Fest…

Emma Kostopolus / Contributor 02/06/2021 Emma Kostopolus / Contributor 02/06/2021

[Event Review] Panic Fest 2021: A Great Time for Some Sick Laughs

Panic Fest, held yearly as the Screenland Armour, is a mainstay in the Kansas City film scene, and thus an event that is near and dear to my heart…

Zoë Rose Smith / Editor-in-Chief 27/05/2021 Zoë Rose Smith / Editor-in-Chief 27/05/2021

[Preview] Bye Bye Bad Taste Fest Comes To Portland with an Incredible Line-Up of Genre Films

Looking for something to do this weekend in Portland? Drive down to Bye Bye Bad Taste film festival…

Rebecca McCallum / Assistant Editor 10/05/2021 Rebecca McCallum / Assistant Editor 10/05/2021

[Event Review] Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein Abridged

Adapted and Performed as a Storytelling Experience by Rosalind Buck