Mandy, 2018. Directed by Panos Cosmatos. Starring Nicolas Cage, Andrea Riseborough, Linus Roache, Bill Duke, and Richard Brake. SYNOPSIS: The happy lives of Red and his girlfriend Mandy are ruined by the arrival of a sinister cult leader and his deranged minions, forcing Red into a surreal and increasingly bloody quest for revenge. HAPPY HALLOWEEN […]
October Horrors 2019 Day 30 – Ghost Stories (2017)
Ghost Stories, 2017. Directed by Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman. Starring Andy Nyman, Martin Freeman, Alex Lawther and Paul Whitehouse. SYNOPSIS: Professor Philip Goodman, an investigator specialising in debunking fraudulent physics is tasked with solving three mysterious and seemingly supernatural events. Among the horror genre, we have many different sub-genres lurking within it, and while […]
October Horrors 2019 Day 29 – Wes Craven’s New Nightmare (1994)
Wes Craven’s New Nightmare, 1994. Directed by Wes Craven. Starring Heather Langenkamp, Robert Englund, Miko Huges and John Saxon. SYNOPSIS: When tragedy strikes, actress Heather Langenkamp is reluctantly forced to confront the legacy of her most famous role; Nancy Thompson to defeat an entity that has taken on the form of her former on-screen nemesis; […]
October Horrors 2019 Day 28 – Young Frankenstein (1974)
Young Frankenstein, 1974. Directed by Mel Brooks. Starring Gene Wilder, Peter Boyle, Marty Feldman, Cloris Leachman, Teri Garr, Kenneth Mars and Madeline Kahn. SYNOPSIS: Fredrick Frankenstein, upon hearing of his grandfather’s experiments, decides to embark upon his own quest to create new life out of the body parts of the dead, with decidedly strange and […]
October Horrors 2019 Day 27 – Emelie (2015)
Emelie, 2015. Directed by Michael Thelin. Starring Sarah Bolger, Robert Bozek, Joshua Rush, Carly Adams, Thomas Bair, Susan Pourfar, and Chris Beetem. SYNOPSIS: When their parents go out for the evening, the Thompson children are left in the care of babysitter Emelie. However, this seemingly innocent babysitter soon begins to show her true sinister colours. […]
October Horrors 2019 Day 26 – Berberian Sound Studio (2012)
Berberian Sound Studio, 2012. Directed by Peter Strickland. Starring Toby Jones, Tonia Sotiropoulou, Susanna Cappellaro, Cosimo Fusco and Katalin Ladik. SYNOPSIS: A British sound engineer artist arrives at Berberian Sound Studios in Italy to create the sounds for what he thinks will be a film about horses. However, he is shocked to find he has […]
October Horrors 2019 Day 25 – Lake Mungo (2008)
Lake Mungo, 2008. Directed by Joel Anderson. Starring Talia Zucker, Rosie Traynor, David Pledger, Martin Sharpe and Steve Jodrell. SYNOPSIS: A family attempts to come to terms with the tragic death of their 16-year-old daughter and the possible supernatural events surrounding their grief over it. Earlier this month we took a look at The Blair […]
October Horrors 2019 Day 24 – Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1994)
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, 1994. Directed by Kenneth Branagh. Starring Kenneth Branagh, Robert De Niro, Helena Bonham Carter, Tom Hulce and John Cleese. SYNOPSIS: Sailors embarking upon a voyage to the North Pole rescue a man travelling through the barren wastelands by himself. The man is Victor Frankenstein who begins to tell the tale of his […]
October Horrors 2019 Day 23 – Dreamscape (1984)
Dreamscape, 1984. Directed by Joseph Ruben. Starring Dennis Quaid, Kate Capshaw, Max Von Sydow, David Patrick Kelly, Eddie Albert and Christopher Plummer. SYNOPSIS: Alex Gardner, a psychic, is recruited by a secret government programme in which, with the aid of technology, they can enter and influence people’s dreams in the hopes of helping the dreamers […]
October Horrors 2019 Day 22 – The Fog (1980)
The Fog, 1980. Directed by John Carpenter. Starring Adrienne Barbeau, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tom Atkins, Janet Leigh, and Hal Holbrook. SYNOPSIS: A small fishing town is enveloped by a mysterious fog, bringing with it the vengeful spirits of the mariners killed in a shipwreck 100 years prior. After omitting him from last year’s October Horrors, […]