Sam Vargas / Contributor 04/07/2021 Sam Vargas / Contributor 04/07/2021

[Film Review] White Demise (2020)

While many horror directors are able to use religious motifs or supernatural forces to explain away evil, plots that incorporate gun violence rely solely on the abstract cruelty of human nature…

Mae Murray / Contributor 03/07/2021 Mae Murray / Contributor 03/07/2021

[Book Review] Castle Heights: 18 Storeys, 18 Stories

To that end, Castle Heights is undoubtedly successful, sure to entertain and inspire writers and readers of indie horror…

Jerry Sampson / Senior Contributor 02/07/2021 Jerry Sampson / Senior Contributor 02/07/2021

[Film Review] Rot (1999)

No-budget filmmaking should be praised for its mere existence. Creativity comes in all forms and no form should be discouraged…

Emma Kostopolus / Contributor 02/07/2021 Emma Kostopolus / Contributor 02/07/2021

[Film Review] Superdeep (2021)

There are fewer things cooler than a horror premise that takes as its basis some facet of inadequately-explored reality…

Liz DeGregorio / Senior Contributor 01/07/2021 Liz DeGregorio / Senior Contributor 01/07/2021

[Film Review] Ginger Snaps (2000)

The mood of Ginger Snaps, a Canadian indie horror film directed by John Fawcett, is established almost immediately…

Zoë Rose Smith / Editor-in-Chief 29/06/2021 Zoë Rose Smith / Editor-in-Chief 29/06/2021

[Book Review] The Scream & Other Dark Stories

As a fellow extreme horror lover, author Jerry Sampson takes those themes of ‘darkness’ and weaves them throughout the book, yet never takes anything to the realm of unbelievable and misguided…

Melissa Cox / Contributor 28/06/2021 Melissa Cox / Contributor 28/06/2021

[Book Review] The Abyss Within (2020)

The Abyss Within is an anthology of new horror short stories, from SmashBear publishing…

Jerry Sampson / Senior Contributor 25/06/2021 Jerry Sampson / Senior Contributor 25/06/2021

[Film Review] Vicious Fun (2021)

Five serial killers walk into a bar…and if you want the end of that joke, you’ll have to watch Cody Calahan’s Vicious Fun…

Kim Morrison / Senior Contributor & Social Manager 24/06/2021 Kim Morrison / Senior Contributor & Social Manager 24/06/2021

[Film Review] Teeth (2007)

There’s no denying that Teeth (2007) is a movie whose reputation precedes it. Whether you have seen it or not, most horror fans have heard about the film that involves vagina dentata…

Leticia Lopez / Contributor 24/06/2021 Leticia Lopez / Contributor 24/06/2021

[Book Review] Glamour Ghoul: The Passions and Pain of the Real Vampira, Maila Nurmi

Be careful with what you create. Take on a character or role and society is grasped by that staple no matter how many times you try to yank it out…

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…

Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana / Senior Contributor 22/06/2021 Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana / Senior Contributor 22/06/2021

[Film Review] Nightmare Symphony (2020)

Nightmare Symphony (2020) is a love letter to Italian film director Lucio Fulci and the giallo murder mystery films from the 1960s and 70s…

Emma Kostopolus / Contributor 21/06/2021 Emma Kostopolus / Contributor 21/06/2021

[Film Review] The Retreat (2021) Enacts Gruesome Queer Catharsis

Every time there’s a horror movie about city slickers who take an ill-fated trip to the countryside, there has to be fucked-up deer imagery…

Alix Turner / Contributor 21/06/2021 Alix Turner / Contributor 21/06/2021

[Film Review] My Heart Can’t Beat Unless You Tell It To (2021)

Thomas is sick, and it’s not the kind of sickness they can leave in the care of a hospital; instead, it is the kind which requires human blood to keep him going…

Harriet Fletcher / Contributor 17/06/2021 Harriet Fletcher / Contributor 17/06/2021

[Film Review] Black Swan (2010)

Black Swan (2010) deals with the familiar trope of the devious understudy but brings into focus the pressures faced by women in the ballet world...

Hannah Ogilvie / Contributor 10/06/2021 Hannah Ogilvie / Contributor 10/06/2021

[Film Review] The Rental (2020)

Dave Franco’s directorial debut The Rental (2020) looks to exploit the social trend of people booking holidays in stranger’s homes..

Harriet Fletcher / Contributor 09/06/2021 Harriet Fletcher / Contributor 09/06/2021

[Film Review] Lili (2019)

After the exposure of film producer Harvey Weinstein in 2017, the ‘casting couch’ has gone from being a myth of Hollywood’s bygone era…

Jerry Sampson / Senior Contributor 07/06/2021 Jerry Sampson / Senior Contributor 07/06/2021

[Film Review] Leni (2020)

The deeper we bury our grief, loneliness, and anxiety, the more powerful our monsters become…

Sam Vargas / Contributor 06/06/2021 Sam Vargas / Contributor 06/06/2021

[Film Review] Flashback (2021)

At one point or another, everyone wonders if they’ve made the right choices with their time…

Jane Nightshade / Contributor 06/06/2021 Jane Nightshade / Contributor 06/06/2021

[Film Review] The Woman in the Window (2021)

Anna is a depressed and anxious middle-aged woman from Manhattan, who watches the world from the big front window of her rambling brownstone in fast-gentrifying South Harlem…