Author: Neil Gray
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By 1984, the slasher genre was showing signs of fatigue and repetition. The Parent-Teacher Associations were up in arms, the critics were exhausted, and the formula was becoming as predictable as a 1950s sitcom. Paramount Pictures, sensing the end of an era, decided to do something radical: they decided to actually kill their golden goose.…
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Get your hazmat suits ready and try to ignore the smell of burnt popcorn, because we are heading back to 1958, a year when the biggest threat to national security wasn’t a nuclear warhead, but a giant, sentient bowl of strawberry jam from the vacuum of space. We are dissecting the granddaddy of Goo-Horror, the…
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Well, fuck. Bruce Campbell, the man, the myth, the guy who made us cheer whenever someone yelled “groovy”, has revealed he’s been diagnosed with cancer. The Evil Dead legend, best known as Ash Williams, shared the news himself on social media, calling the disease “treatable” but not “curable,” and apologizing to fans who might be…
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Ahead of its premiere at FrightFest Glasgow, Bury the Devil puts the horror in real time horror with this teaser trailer over on YouTube. Truth be told, it had me jumping a couple of times and if it can do that in such a small amount of space, there’s the good possibility that Bury the Devil will be able…
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Yeah, you have to watch this. In the brutal new trailer for Pinocchio Unstrung, brought to you by the good folks at ITN, Pinocchio murders the hell out of everyone he comes across in his quest to become a real boy. A lot of negative things have been said about the use of public domain…
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If you thought we were done with the aristocratic blood-suckers of the 1970s, think again. We are staying firmly planted in the foggy, cleavage-heavy landscape of Hammer’s experimental era. So, put on your most dramatic mourning veil and prepare for a masterclass in vanity, because we are dissecting the 1971 classic, Countess Dracula. Now, before…
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Lock the hatch and check your oxygen levels, because we are diving into the high-pressure, low-sanity world of The Temple. Written in 1920 and first published in 1925 in Weird Tales, this is Lovecraft’s version of a submarine thriller, but instead of a heroic crew, we get a boat full of Imperial German sailors who…
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If you know anything about me by now, you’ll know I have a slight obsession with H.P. Lovecraft. So, anytime I see anything that has Lovecraftian attached to it, I’m gonna run towards it like a fat fuck at a free all you can eat buffet. And trust me, being a fat fuck myself, I…
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In 1973, William Friedkin’s The Exorcist didn’t just win at the box office; it fundamentally altered the DNA of the horror genre. It was a cold, terrifying kick to the kadiddlehoppers, that fucked up a generation of movie-goers. So, when Warner Bros. sat down to plan the sequel, they had a choice: they could double…
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The 1978 movie Faces of Death is a rite of passage for horror fans. A supposed snuff/documentary type of film, it caused world wide panic of a sort when it was first released. It was allegedly banned in 46 countries (though that number was inflated for marketing purposes) yet the fact is that Faces of…