Category: Film
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Carnival of Souls is one of my favorite horror movies of all time. It is spooky, unsettling, and so fucking weird that you’ll wonder if that last beer you had wasn’t laced with LSD. Made for $33,000 by Herk Harvey, a bloke who spent his day job directing educational safety films in Kansas, it has…
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A great horror film doesn’t kick you in the balls in the first act. It gives you just enough information to make you think you know what’s going on, then quietly moves the goalposts while you’re looking the other way. That’s The Spirit Lock. I’m going to be careful about what I say here. Knowing…
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Ignition is a psychological thriller about a bomber and a bomb disposal expert that is entirely contained in one room, and… well… that is about all I can tell you about it, because if I tell you any more then I’ll ruin the film for you and, trust me, you don’t want me doing that.…
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As its 20th Anniversary celebrations continue, Severin Films has detailed its August slate, with three major releases spanning recent horror, Indonesian genre cinema and cult exploitation. Leading the lineup is The Ugly Stepsister, writer-director Emilie Blichfeldt’s 2025 Oscar-nominated horror film, which receives its North American disc premiere through Severin. The release follows praise from Paste…
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Most horror films of the 1930s make a hell of a lot of noise. They rely on booming organ music, villagers running around with flaming torches, or mad scientists screaming at the heavens while lightning cracks over a laboratory. The Mummy doesn’t bother with any of that. Released in 1932 and directed by Karl Freund,…
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There are films that are important, films that are influential, and then there are films that are so fucking strange that you can watch them more than a century later and still find yourself thinking, What the hell am I watching? The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is all three. Released in 1920 and directed by…
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There are sequels, and then there is Bride of Frankenstein. Most sequels are made because somebody somewhere has looked at a successful film, stared lovingly at a spreadsheet and thought, “We could probably squeeze another few quid out of this bastard.” And occasionally, because the cinematic gods are strange and unpredictable creatures, somebody takes that…
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I am old. Like, really fucking old. In fact, I turn 54 in around two months and, as is my want this time of year, I’ve been looking back over the past twelve months to see what is what. It hasn’t made for great reading. Not the writing, of course. That is excellence of the…
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I hate spiders. Horrible creepy crawly bastards. Too many legs, too many eyes, fucking fangs! Utter nightmare fuel. So, you can imagine my delight when I sat down and viewed the trailer for Crawlers. Formerly known as Arachnid, the new horror film is heading to US cinemas nationwide on October 16 through Roadside Attractions and…
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Trinity Content Partners will bring seven horror and thriller titles to UK digital throughout September, with the lineup spanning folk horror, cyber gothic horror, supernatural horror, science fiction and psychological thrillers. The first two titles arrive on September 7. Steven Fierberg’s British chiller The Spirit Lock will be released through Seven Tales, while Steve Looker’s…