Tag: Horror
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Access:Horror has officially dropped its 2026 program, kicking off with an opening night showcase at the Alamo Drafthouse Winchester on September 25 before moving to a month-long virtual run from October 4 through November 1. Founded by filmmaker and activist Ariel Baska, the festival uses genre cinema to push disability advocacy to the front, delivering…
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There is a very specific brand of medical ethics in 1950s cinema that begins and ends with intravenous injections. When a young woman suffering from severe amnesia sits in a psychiatric ward, the doctors don’t bother with therapy, gentle questioning, or basic patient consent. They simply pull out a syringe filled with an experimental cocktail…
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There is something wonderfully strange about watching the opening credits of The Fly from 1958 and seeing Vincent Price sitting there behind David Hedison and Patricia Owens. Third billing. Vincent fucking Price. This is before Price became the Vincent Price we all know and love: the towering presence of gothic horror, the sinister voice, the…
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Lizzy Borden took an axe and gave her mother forty whacks, when she saw what she had done… … ITN Distribution moved the whole thing to England and gave her a movie where she goes crazy ape bonkers with a hatchet. While Ryan Murphy’s glossy prestige machine prepares to drop Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story…
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If you’ve seen Red White & Blue or The Living and the Dead, you already know Simon Rumley doesn’t do light entertainment. He makes films that leave you wanting to scrub yourself down with wire wool, and his latest feature isn’t breaking that streak. Crushed lands on UK digital platforms on 5 October via GrimmVision,…
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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,…