Vanessa Maki with ten horror films that subvert audience expectations… Whether you’re a seasoned horror fan or not, sometimes it’s cool to have your expectations shattered, rather than getting exactly what you might be expecting out of a horror movie. Is there something wrong with a films that do the opposite? Nope! However, it’s nice […]
10 Essential Cult Classic 80s Movies You Need To See
Tom Jolliffe with ten great cult classic 1980s movies you need to see… The cult film. From the obscure gems with an undying loyalty from their small following, to the mass cults who followed Star Wars back in the 80s. Sometimes a film just strikes a chord and has a certain unique charm or imperfect […]
Delightfully Bad Christmas Horror Movies for the Holiday Season
EJ Moreno looks at the best of the worst holiday horrors… For horror fans, we all know the holiday horror trend that pops up every few years. It seems like every generation gets a batch of Christmas-themed horror movies that give us candy-coated treats. However, not every present is excellent; sometimes, these movies feel more […]
Peeping Tom: A Voyeuristic Masterpiece of the Slasher Subgenre
William Stottor revisits the classic British horror-thriller Peeping Tom… Before 1960, the Michael Powell half of Powell and Pressburger had enjoyed a commercially and critically successful directing career. Films such as The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) and The Red Shoes (1948), which he directed with Emeric Pressburger, still rank amongst the greatest […]
Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events at 20: A Gothic Visual Treat for Children and Adults Alike
Hasitha Fernando looks back at Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events as it celebrates its 20th anniversary… A Series of Unfortunate Events is a series of popular novels penned by Daniel Handler under his pseudonym Lemony Snicket. Its big screen adaptation led by the inimitable Jim Carrey proved to be a solid take on […]
From Banned to Beloved: Video Nasties That Deserve Critical Re-evaluation
Adam Page delves into the world of the video nasty to see which of the controversial shockers deserve critical re-evaluation… I get it, I really do. Back when Mary Whitehouse and her gang of pearl-clutching warriors put together their list of 72 movies they deemed too dangerous for the British public in 1984, they were […]
The Essential Joel Edgerton Movies
Joel Edgerton may well be Mr Underrated in Hollywood. Here are his essential movies… Joel Edgerton’s illustrious career has been anything but predictable. The Australian character actor has had a seamless ability to inhabit an eclectic range of characters. Hollywood has increasingly leaned toward pretty boy actors and a focus on aesthetics over personality. Edgerton […]
10 Cult 70s Horror Gems You May Have Missed
Vanessa Maki presents a selection of 1970s horror gems for your watch list… The ’70s was quite the time for film, especially for the horror genre. Exploitation horror was hitting the scene, many horror classics were born, and it was all pretty groovy for horror fans of the time. And the more we look back […]
An Overlooked Noirvember Gem: The Hit
We take a look at an underrated and overlooked gem you probably haven’t seen: Stephen Frears’ The Hit… With Noirvember drawing to a close and everyone having undoubtedly enjoyed the finest film noir and neo-noir delights known to man, there’s time to squeeze in another recommendation, one which deserves full attention. There have been numerous […]
The Erotic Horror Renaissance of the 1990s: Where Cinemax Met Creature Features
Adam Page on the erotic horror renaissance of the 90s… Look, sitting here in front of this keyboard, I can’t pretend it wasn’t a weird time. The decade of the 90s was a lot of things: flannel, teen angst, the inexplicable popularity of acid washed jeans. But somewhere between the Berlin Wall being torn down […]
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