[Editorial] Interview with cast & crew of Night Drive (2019)
After reviewing the mischievous thriller Night Drive recently, I had the pleasure of interviewing the team involved…
[Editorial] Horrible Imaginings Film Festival interview with Rabia Sitabi
Ahead of the Horrible Imaginings Film Festival (HIFF), I got to sit down with Project Director Rabia Sitabi and chat about the upcoming fest…
[Book Review] My Heart Is a Chainsaw (2021)
Stephen Graham Jones made a big splash last year when his award-winning novel The Only Good Indians hit shelves…
[Film Review] Night of the Living Dicks at the Fantasia International Film Festival is a Fun Horror-Comedy About Misogyny
There's a lot of dicks in the Night of the Living Dicks (2021). They come in all shades and sizes: the harassers, the hateful, the patriarchal, the underhanded, the blowhards…
[Film Review] Hall (2020)
Hall (2020) follows a group of strangers in a hotel, all with their own lives and problems, taken unawares by an unnamed virus…
[Film Review] Demonic (2021)
Neill Blomkamp crashed onto the scene with his 2009 sci-fi horror film District 9, a found footage style dystopic nightmare that examined the effects of xenophobia and societal disintegration through insectoid invasion…
[Editorial] Horrible Imaginings Film Festival interview with Jay Kay
In anticipation of the Horrible Imaginings Film Festival (HIFF), I had the opportunity to chat with Jay Kay, filmmaker and member of the fest’s operations team…
[Editorial] Extreme Horror Films Most Likely to Haunt Your Dreams
It’s downright infuriating to hear people blather on about how a film can – nay will – cause someone to go off the deep end…
[Book Review] Tomie (1987)
Manga artist Junji Ito, one of the pioneers of modern horror in manga, kick started his career with Tomie…
[Editorial] Disability and Horror: A Quiet Place Part 2 (2021)
I eagerly looked forward to this follow-up from John Krasinski’s A Quiet Place, which introduced a different vision of the apocalypse…
[Editorial] Interview with Barbara Crampton about Jakob’s Wife
I sat down with Barbara Crampton to chat about female friendship, vampirism as life after death, and sexuality on screen in Jakob’s Wife…
[Film Review] Jakob’s Wife (2021)
Anne Fedder (Barbara Crampton) simmers in a pew, quietly disdainful of her husband. When Reverend Jakob Fedder (Larry Fessenden) proselytizes, “He who loves his wife loves himself,” it reeks of hypocrisy…
[Mother of Fears] This House Needs a Family in We Are Still Here
In We Are Still Here (2015), we are plunged right into the middle of Anne’s grief just a couple of months after losing her son, Bobby, in a car crash…
[Film Review] Don't Look Now (1973)
Some of the most memorable modern horror movies (including À l'intérieur, The Invitation, The Babadook and Hereditary) bloom around characters' grief. ..
[Editorial] You Can Hear Me: Navigating the Aural Gaze in Carnival of Souls (1962)
When engaging critically with a film, we often talk about its gaze. Film is, after all, a visual medium, and how we look at the objects and characters on the screen shapes our relationship with the story…
[Film Review] Fantasia Film Festival 2021 - The Last Thing Mary Saw
Mary (Stefanie Scott) and Eleanor (Isabelle Fuhrman) are young and in love. Both beautiful, enigmatic, intelligent women… and therein lies the problem…
[Film Review] Fantasia Film Festival 2021 - Midnight
When discussing foreign horror/thrillers, South Korea is almost instantly most genre-fans first thought. In the last 20 years, they have arguably produced some of the greatest…
[Book Review] Velvet Was the Night (2021)
Velvet Was the Night by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Mexican Gothic) transports readers to Mexico City on June 10, 1971, the day of the Corpus Christi Massacre…
[Editorial] “How do girls know how to do that?”: Female Adaptation and Evolution in Spring (2014) Part 1
The time spent under lockdown due to the pandemic has meant audiences often turned to films and television for comfort, escapism or even challenge…
[Editorial] 20 Years Later: The Others (2001)
Released 20 years ago in 2001, Alejandro Amenábar’s The Others was part of a short cycle of slow, supernatural horror films with twists…