A Chilling Ghost Story – The Power (Film Review)

Posted by Maria Lattila - April 8, 2021

Corinna Faith’s The Power is a chilling ghost story, set in 1970s Britain. Times are difficult and every night the country is plunged into darkness in order to conserve energy amid miners’ strikes. Val (Rose Williams) is already afraid of the dark, we witness her turning on every light in her small living quarters following

“Who wants to go to Christmasland?” – N0S4A2: Season Two (TV Review)

Posted by Paul Klein - March 30, 2021

Picking up where season one left off, N0S4A2’s second season appears from the outset to be a little more confident, like the second half of a story that has done the legwork to set up who the characters are, here we are plunged back into the world of Charlie Manx and Vic McQueen. The second

“You Must Be Starving” – Honeydew (Film Review)

Posted by Maria Lattila - March 27, 2021

Devereux Milburn’s debut feature is full of slow burn chaos and Honeydew drips with uneasiness. The film might be too weird and slow for some, but within beats a deliciously wicked heart and it might even prove bizarre enough to garner a small cult following. Sam (Sawyer Spielberg and yes, they’re related) and Rylie (Malin

“A Noticeably Weak Connective Tissue” – Country of Hotels (Film Review)

Posted by Sab Astley - March 18, 2021

Anthologies can be great ways to tell stories that are creative and original but don’t necessitate an entire focus to them – especially in horror. Stephen King, Chuck Palahniuk and Joyce Carol Oates have all created short story collections to showcase ideas they liked but didn’t think they were book-length on their own. When it

“This Is Such An Important Night For Us” – Slaxx (Film Review)

Posted by Maria Lattila - March 17, 2021

Elza Kephart’s Slaxx is the kind of a film that’s right at home at a festival, in front of an audience eager and keen for gore and easy laughs. This tale of a pair of killer jeans – yes, really, stay with me here – is fun, breezy and filled with chuckle-inducing jokes, but the

“It’s Not Like A Drama You’ve Seen After All, It’s Killer Pants” – Elza Kephart talks Slaxx (The FH Interview)

Posted by Sab Astley - March 16, 2021

We sat down with Elza Kephart, director and co-writer of Shudder's Slaxx, a film about a pair of killer jeans, to understand the development of the project, how she feels about the current climate of horror, and what scares her. Elza's a person of many hats, writing and directing since 2002, with early projects like

“Dream well” – Sacrifice (Film Review)

Posted by Gavin Spoors - March 15, 2021

Sacrifice is the worst thing a horror film can be: boring. On paper, it has the potential to be a fun ride, a cosmic horror featuring the legendary Barbara Crampton, but unfortunately, Sacrifice is bland, bloated and not scary in the slightest. Inspired by the works of H.P Lovecraft and Paul Kane’s short story Men

Sweet Dream Or A Beautiful Nightmare – Come True (Film Review)

Posted by Andrew Gaudion - March 12, 2021

Be it Freddy Kruger’s boiler room in A Nightmare on Elm Street, pulling off heists in Inception, or Fellini’s fantasies in 81/2, the world of dreams has often been fertile ground to explore in cinema across many different genres. They are perhaps most fitting to the horror genre, what with the potential of creating nightmarish

“Why can’t we just have different opinions and be nice about it?” – The Columnist (Film Review)

Posted by Ben Peyton - March 5, 2021

 

A Dinner Party Which Lacks Bite – Climate Of The Hunter (Film Review)

Posted by Tim Birkbeck - March 1, 2021

As a genre, horror films have undergone a whole host of transitions. From all-out blood and guts to the more psychological thriller there has always been something there to make our skin crawl. But something that seems to have been forgotten to time in the genre is its over-the-topness and the idea that horror can