[Editorial] Transploitation: Glen or Glenda
What is transploitation? Some introduction to the term is necessary, certainly, but I don’t want to take too much away from Glen or Glenda.
[Book Review] Devil House (2022)
Books that you expect will scare you in one way but ultimately end up scaring you in a completely different way are often the most satisfying…
[Film Review] Double Bill: The Girl with the Cutter & Golgota (2021)
“We see ourselves as curators of independent film that seeks to push boundaries, ask questions and entertain”
[Editorial] Horror in a ‘Not Horror’ Film: Deconstructing The Humans (2021)
As The Humans ended, I sat in stunned silence…
[Editorial] Top 10 Scary Women in Horror Films
What makes a female villain in a horror film especially frightening?
[Editorial] Horror Filmmakers to Watch: Craig Ouellette
What I’ve noticed the most about Craig Ouellette is his ability to build tension in such a short amount of time…
[Film Review] Mandy (2018)
Red is catapulted into a phantasmagoric trip of epic proportion, hell bent on a desire for justice and bloody vengeance…
[Editorial] Best of Netflix Horror Films Part 1
After her recommendations on the Classics, Modern Masterpieces and Something A Little Netflix Nasty in part 1, here Elizabeth Bishop continues with a definitive list of horrors…
[Editorial] Hearts of Darkness: “Touch With Your Eyes” - Julia Ducournau’s Cinema of Sensation
During the magnetic, roaming camera sequence set to Doing It To Death by The Kills early in Titane, a man is removed from the show after touching one of the girls…
[Editorial] Hearts of Darkness: Black Swan (2010) and the Death of Perfection
A beautiful ballerina waits on a cold, dark stage. The picture of innocence, she dances in a perfect white tulle dress with skirts falling to her mid calves…
[Mother of Fears] How Mommy Killed The Monster in A Nightmare on Elm Street 1984
Welcome to Mother of Fears – a monthly column that will explore the various roles that mothers play within the horror genre…
[Editorial] The Ones Who Did Not Die: The Final Girls of Horror Q&A Event
Do you love final girls? Host Rebecca McCallum chats to some Ghouls Magazine contributors all about their favourite final girls the the evolution of the final girl in horror…
[Film Review] The Long Night (2022)
Directed by Rich Ragsdale and written by Robert Sheppe and Mark Young The Long Night is a dark and eerie tale…
[Editorial] Hearts of Darkness: A Love Letter to… Interview with Alex West
Back in 2019, I was just on the edge of becoming a horror writer and I found myself thinking ever more deeply and introspectively about the genre…
[Film Review] A God Without a Universe (2015)
A God Without a Universe, the 2015 release from Kasper Juhl, might possibly feature some of the most unforgivably deviant and chaotic characters written in some time…
[Editorial] Hearts of Darkness: Mary Lambert’s Return Trip to the Pet Sematary
The horror genre is no stranger to Stephen King adaptations and after the original property has proven popular, we are sometimes treated to sequels that decide to tell a different story in King’s universe…
[Editorial] Tree Glebman: How Happy Death Day Redefines the “Final Girl”
As one of the staples of slasher horror, the “Final Girl” is the viewer's connection to the film, the girl they’re on the edge of their seats for…
[Editorial] The Revival and Rebirth of the Final Girl in Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022)
In 1974 the world was shocked by what was depicted on-screen; something so unimaginable, so heinous and so depraved…
[Editorial] Hearts of Darkness: A Letter to Béatrice Dalle: In Honor of la Femme & Gorgeous Villainy
Chère Béatrice, I remember the first time I saw your visage on screen. I was horrified. As the flame of the lighter just kissed the tip of your cigarette…
[Book Review] It’s Me Billy: Black Christmas Revisited (2022)
It’s Me Billy: Black Christmas Revisited is an in-depth exploration of the horror film that influenced John Carpenter’s Halloween (1978)…