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There’s a moment in the new trailer for They Will Kill You where one of the characters says: “Come on guys, it’s just one girl.” It just so happens that his one girl is Zazie Beetz who is in the middle of murdering the shit out of every Satanist she comes across, in unique and…
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If horror movies have taught us anything, it’s never go to any hotel, anywhere in the world, for any reason whatsoever. The Shining, 1408, Psycho for gods sake, if these aren’t signposts that say ‘Turn back, go home, and lock yourself in your bedroom’ then I don’t know what is. It appears, however, that Adam…
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Forget the neon-drenched, hollow-earth acrobatics of the 2020s for a second. To truly understand the transformation of the King of the Monsters from political warning to arse whupping badass, we have to travel back to 1955. Just one year after the original dropped like an atomic bomb on global cinema, Toho gave us Godzilla Raids…
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​Forget the modern reboots for a second. Strip away the tangled timelines and the increasingly elaborate explanations for why Michael Myers just won’t stay dead .If you want to understand the moment early-80s horror changed gear, when the slow tension of the 70s gave way to the bloodier energy of the slasher boom, you have…
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There are certain ways to sell a movie to me. You can have giant Cthulhu like monsters in it, you could mention that it is inspired by H.P. Lovecraft, or you could have a line in the trailer that states: “Oh wow, this is straight out of a fucking slasher movie.” The Daemon has all…
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Welcome to the ultimate DNA Test from Hell. If The Temple was an iron coffin at the bottom of the sea, Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family, later republished under the punchier title The White Ape, is a slow-motion car crash through five generations of the worst genetics in British history. Written…
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I love Grindhouse cinema and I make no bones about it. Whether it’s Pam Grier blowing drug dealers heads off with a shotgun in Coffy, or a bunch of rabid hippies guzzling down pints of claret in I Drink Your Blood, if it’s Grindhouse then it’s the right house for me. And that almost rhymed…
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Let’s face it; the found footage horror genre is as dead as the dodo and twice as ugly. For far too long we, the fans, have been subjected to Hollywood’s attempts to wring another dollar out of its twitching corpse, or to films that should never have left the first draft. But Heritage, a movie…
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ITN are at it again. On the back if a rash of new trailers, each one more bloody than the last, they company has dropped a brand new offering, Wizard of Death: Tinman’s Rise, showing just have far our favourite metal bastard will go in his quest for a heart. He may look like a…
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Light a candle, dial a number, and ask for a ride. And whatever happens after that, don’t panic. This is the ritual game that The Mid-Night Driver (dir. Alex Cherney) offers, a dread-filled, atmospheric film that follows Claire (Devan Delugo), after she and her friends dare to call the Driver. The premise sounds familiar, but…