Iona Smith / Senior Contributor & Events Organiser 03/10/2022 Iona Smith / Senior Contributor & Events Organiser 03/10/2022

[Film Review] The Scary of Sixty-First (2021)

As a horror fan, if you’re looking for some fun Sunday night spookiness to switch on and switch off in front of, The Scary of Sixty-First (2021) is not for you.

Jerry Sampson / Senior Contributor 02/10/2022 Jerry Sampson / Senior Contributor 02/10/2022

[Film Review] Bite (2022)

A film that can be considered a cross between Snatch and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre sounds like a pretty good deal, and overall, director James Owen’s Bite takes bits from each film in a manner that doesn’t entirely feel like a retread, but also doesn’t quite hit the mark of an original genre film.

Megan Kenny / Contributor 29/09/2022 Megan Kenny / Contributor 29/09/2022

[Film Review] Two Thousand Maniacs (1964)

Two Thousand Maniacs (1964) from The Shudder Herschell Gordon Lewis Collection

Liz DeGregorio / Senior Contributor 29/09/2022 Liz DeGregorio / Senior Contributor 29/09/2022

[Book Review] It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror (2022)

Queer horror is rapidly growing genre. The essay collection It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror, which will be published by The Feminist Press on October 1, is bursting with stories of LGBTQ+ writers sharing their personal connections with horror films, and describing how these movies intersect with their queer identities.

Anne Séguin / Contributor 28/09/2022 Anne Séguin / Contributor 28/09/2022

[Film Review] The Blood of the Dinosaurs (2021)

An opening sequence almost too fitting for this type of film comically enters the screen as an actor of this very project asks writer-director Joe Badon, “what the hell is your movie about?”

Courtney Mills / Contributor 28/09/2022 Courtney Mills / Contributor 28/09/2022

[Book Review] My Best Friend’s Exorcism

Abby and Gretchen; best friends forever! Well, that was the case until a bad acid trip caused the girls to get separated for a while. Since then, Gretchen’s been acting out of character. She has a serious stick up her ass and Abby doesn’t know why. It’s almost as if she’s been possessed...

Elizabeth Bishop / Senior Contributor 28/09/2022 Elizabeth Bishop / Senior Contributor 28/09/2022

[Film Review] Sissy (2022)

This year sees the UK premiere of some incredible looking female-fronted horrors: Candyland in the vein of 70s exploitation movies exploring the underground world of truck stop sex workers; Piggy a tale of one girls revenge against her bullies; and The Harbinger which focuses on two best friends supporting each other through the horrors of the pandemic and beyond – to name but a few.

Elizabeth Bishop / Senior Contributor 27/09/2022 Elizabeth Bishop / Senior Contributor 27/09/2022

[Film Review] Barbarian (2022)

One of the most anticipated titles of the year was the UK premiere of Zach Creggers Barbarian. The trailer released back in June was pretty vague – a young woman (Tess Marshall played by Georgina Campbell) – arrives at a house she has rented out on Airbnb only to find that the key has already been taken and a man named Keith (Bill Skarsgard) has already checked in.

Megan Kenny / Contributor 27/09/2022 Megan Kenny / Contributor 27/09/2022

[Book Review] House of Psychotic Women

House of Psychotic Women is a fascinating beast. Part autobiography, part reference book, it is a love letter to the topic of female neurosis from author Kier-La Janisse.

Sarah Miles / Contributor 26/09/2022 Sarah Miles / Contributor 26/09/2022

[Film Review] Snake Girl and the Silver Haired Witch (1968)

The child’s point of view can be a powerful tool in horror.

Ariel Powers-Schaub / Senior Contributor & Admin Assistant 25/09/2022 Ariel Powers-Schaub / Senior Contributor & Admin Assistant 25/09/2022

[Event Review] Popcorn Frights Film Festival: We Got a Dog (2022)

A surprise dog which your partner didn’t consult you on? It sounds frustrating, but it becomes scary in Ryan Valdez’s short film We Got a Dog (2022), screened at this year’s Popcorn Frights film festival.

Caitlyn Downs / Contributor 22/09/2022 Caitlyn Downs / Contributor 22/09/2022

[Film Review] Crimes of The Future (2022)

Humans adapt to a synthetic environment, with new transformations and mutations. …

Megan Kenny / Contributor 20/09/2022 Megan Kenny / Contributor 20/09/2022

[Film Review] Blood Feast (1963)

Blood Feast from The Shudder Herschell Gordon Lewis Collection

Megan Kenny / Contributor 18/09/2022 Megan Kenny / Contributor 18/09/2022

[Film Review] Rawhead Rex (1986)

Rawhead Rex is a 1986 fantasy horror written by Clive Barker.

Zoë Rose Smith / Editor-in-Chief 17/09/2022 Zoë Rose Smith / Editor-in-Chief 17/09/2022

[Film Review] Making Off (2012)

The beauty of extreme films can often be found in their ability to blur the realms of fiction and reality, allowing the viewer to immerse themselves in a world so corrupt, so heinous it can provoke a physical reaction.

Jerry Sampson / Senior Contributor 17/09/2022 Jerry Sampson / Senior Contributor 17/09/2022

[Film Review] The Retaliators (2021)

The Retaliators feels like two movies wrapped into one…

Jerry Sampson / Senior Contributor 25/08/2022 Jerry Sampson / Senior Contributor 25/08/2022

[Film Review] Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022)

Now, for the Gen-Z set, Bodies Bodies Bodies twerks its way onto the scene with some of the funniest, smartly written, TikTok-fueled young adults to get hacked and slashed.

Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana / Senior Contributor 25/08/2022 Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana / Senior Contributor 25/08/2022

[Film Review] Orphan: First Kill (2022)

It’s been 13 years since Esther (Isabelle Fuhrman) first terrorized audiences in 2009’s Orphan and now Esther the murderous maniac with a glandular disorder is back in Orphan: First Kill, a prequel directed by William Brent Bell (Stay Alive, The Boy).

Ariel Powers-Schaub / Senior Contributor & Admin Assistant 24/08/2022 Ariel Powers-Schaub / Senior Contributor & Admin Assistant 24/08/2022

[Event Review] Popcorn Frights Film Festival: The Timekeepers of Eternity (2021)

Popcorn Frights film festival showcased Aristotelis Maragkos’s creative retelling of a familiar story in The Timekeepers of Eternity (2022).

Ariel Powers-Schaub / Senior Contributor & Admin Assistant 22/08/2022 Ariel Powers-Schaub / Senior Contributor & Admin Assistant 22/08/2022

[Event Review] Popcorn Frights Film Festival: Belle (2022)

Max Gold’s Belle (2202) was showcased at Popcorn Frights Film Festival and it’s a beautiful addition to a genre festival.