Category: Film


  • Blood from the Mummyโ€™s Tomb (1971): The Night Channel 4 Ruined Me for Normal Women

    โ€‹If you grew up in the UK during a certain era, your education didn’t happen in a classroom with a dusty chalkboard and a teacher who smelled like cabbage. No, your real education happened on Channel 4, late at night, while your parents were out doing their level best to support the local brewery industry.…

  • Godzilla (1954): The Walking Nuclear Nightmare

    Listen up, creeps, mutants, and late-night monster-kids. Before the Big G started doing gravity-defying dropkicks, flying like a scaly paraglider, and playing soccer with Anguirus, he was something much more terrifying. He wasn’t a hero, he wasn’t a protector, and he certainly wasn’t fun for the folks on the ground to be around. In 1954,…

  • Halloween (1978): The Night Evil Came Home

    In 1978, a young, cigarette-smoking film geek named John Carpenter sat down to make a babysitter murders movie. What he actually unleashed was a lean, stalking nightmare, less a movie and more a cold breath on the back of your neck. He took the tropes of the drive-in, blood, boobs, and boogeymen, and filtered them…

  • The Mortuary Assistant Offers Demonic Possession in New Shudder Trailer

    I donโ€™t like video game adaptations. I mean, unless they’re done by Uwe Boll. But as a rule I avoid this sorts of things like the plague. Resident Evil, Silent Hill, whatever the fuck Borderlands was, these are the kinds of cinematic catastrophes that commint the cardinal sin of not even being so bad that…

  • Friday the 13th Partโ€ฏIV: The Final Chapter (1984) โ€“ Machetes and Mayhem

    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.…

  • The Blob (1958): When Jell-O Attacks

    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…

  • Stay Groovy, Bruce.

    Stay Groovy, Bruce.

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    Well, fuck. Bruce Campbell, the man, the myth, the guy who made us cheer whenever someone yelled โ€œgroovyโ€, has revealed heโ€™s been diagnosed with cancer. The Evil Dead legend, best known as Ash Williams, shared the news himself on social media, calling the disease โ€œtreatableโ€ but not โ€œcurable,โ€ and apologizing to fans who might be…

  • Haunters of the Silence is an inspired folk-horror trip

    WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD Haunters of the Silence is a 2026 surrealist folk-horror film by Finnish husband and wife duo Tatu Heikkinen and Veleda Thorsson-Heikkinen. Their debut feature proves to be an interesting piece of work, forgoing buckets of blood and jump scares in favor of a slow-burn, atmospheric approach, telling a visually poetic story about…

  • Bury the Devil Puts the Horror in Real Time Horror With New Teaser Trailer

    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, thereโ€™s the good possibility thatย Bury the Devilย will be able…

  • Pinocchio Murders The Hell Out of Everyone in Brutal New Trailer for Pinocchio Unstrung

    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…