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10 Great Slow-Burn Horror Movies To Fill You With Dread

April 16, 2025 by Casey Chong

Casey Chong with ten slow-burn horror movies that will fill you with dread… One of the most interesting things about the horror genre is its diverse A-to-Z elements from body horror to found footage, dark fantasy, slasher and supernatural. Then, there’s the slow-burn horror and as the name suggests, this subgenre focuses on the deliberate […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Casey Chong, Featured, Movies, Top Stories Tagged With: Don't Look Now, Hereditary, It Follows, Let The Right One In, Rosemary's Baby, Session 9, The Orphanage, The Shining, the witch

10 Great Modern Horror Classics You Have To See

May 16, 2025 by EJ Moreno

EJ Moreno with ten essential modern horror classics… Horror has hit a different level in recent years. While the genre has always been solid, we have mainstream audiences embrace horror just as much as the diehard fans. That’s led to quite a few genre entries becoming bonafide classics. We’ll look at ten of the most […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, EJ Moreno, Featured, Movies Tagged With: A Quiet Place, Get Out, Hereditary, it chapter one, It Follows, The Cabin in the Woods, The Conjuring, the witch, Titane, Train to Busan, What We Do in the Shadows, You're Next

Essential Demonic Horror Movies To Send Shivers Down Your Spine

January 31, 2025 by Tom Jolliffe

Grab your Holy Bible and rosary beads as we look at ten essential demonic horror movies that will send shivers down your spine… As Flickering Myth takes a leap into independent film with The Baby in the Basket, our own little slice of demonic horror (releasing on DVD and Digital this February!), maybe now is […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Demons, Evil Dead 2, Hellraiser, Hereditary, Rosemary's Baby, The Baby in the Basket, The Entity, The Exorcist, the omen, The Wailing, the witch

The Best Horror Movies In Sundance History

January 23, 2025 by EJ Moreno

EJ Moreno looks at Sundance and its long history with horror… In many ways, Sundance Film Festival is a horror movie territory. The iconic Utah-based film festival has been home to countless memorable horror debuts for decades. From modern classics to classic defining moments, we’ve seen the best of the best come through this festival.  […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, EJ Moreno, Movies, Top Stories Tagged With: American Psycho, BrainDead, Dead Alive, Get Out, Hereditary, Saw, sundance film festival, The Babadook, The Blair Witch Project, The Night House, the witch, Tucker & Dale vs. Evil

The Cult of Cults in Movies

October 18, 2018 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe looks at cinema’s preoccupation with Cults…  Minor Spoilers Follow… Film has always had a fascination with the odd. It delights in the macabre, the outsiders, and in portraying the sects who lurk off the grid, away from the rest of us. There was a particular shift toward the idea of cults especially after […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Apostle, Hereditary, Mandy, Rosemary's Baby, Suspiria, The Wicker Man

10 Stunning Performances Outrageously Snubbed by the Oscars

March 10, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

It’s the Oscars, so it’s time to look at ten stunning performances the Academy outrageously snubbed… Oscar season is an exciting time of the year. It’s fair to say that every year, for one reason or another, contentious decisions are made as well as glaring omissions. The desperation from some actors to snag an Oscar […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Awards Season, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Blade Runner, David Thewlis, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, Gene Hackman, Hereditary, In the Heat of the Night, Isabelle Adjani, Jim Carrey, Naked, Parasite, Paul Giamatti, Possession, Rutger Hauer, sideways, Sidney Poitier, Song Kang-ho, The Conversation, Toni Collette

The Best Creepy Hidden Details Hanging Out in the Background of Horror Movies

August 4, 2023 by admin

Andrew Brassleay with a selection of hidden details hanging out in the background of horror movies… Did anyone else see that? Who needs a jump scare when some of the best of horror’s frightening footage can be found by the more eagle-eyed in the background of fear-inducing fears. Horror movies are filled with sinister Easter […]

Filed Under: Andrew Brassleay, Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Movies Tagged With: Cloverfield, ghostwatch, Hell House LLC, Hereditary, Insidious, it chapter one, It Follows, It: Chapter Two, Lake Mungo, Midsommer

20 Great Performances from the Past Decade

November 1, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe looks back at 20 great performances from the past decade… There have been plenty of legendary performances through the years. Some gain the greatest of acclaim from the off, culminating in Oscar glory. Others hit below the radar, or don’t get the marketing push required for an Oscar run. Award season is in […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: 12 Years a Slave, Adam Sandler, Anthony Hopkins, Avengement, Burning, Chadwick Boseman, Elle, Frances McDormand, Hereditary, isabelle huppert, jake gyllenhaal, jk simmons, Joaquin Phoenix, Joker, Locke, Lupita Nyong'o, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, mads mikkelsen, Nightcrawler, olivia colman, Parasite, Scarlett Johannson, Scott Adkins, Song Kang-ho, Steven Yeun, The Father, The Favourite, The Hunt, The Lighthouse, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, Tom Hardy, Toni Collette, Uncut Gems, Under the Skin, Viola Davis, Whiplash, Willem Dafoe

Overlooked Horror Actors and Their Best Performance

October 17, 2023 by EJ Moreno

While these actors aren’t specifically known for horror, their work in the genre is easy to overlook… Within the horror community, we often focus our admiration and attention on some of the more iconic actors. If it’s classics like Bela Lugosi or Christopher Lee to modern icons like Sarah Michelle Gellar or Bruce Campbell, we […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, EJ Moreno, Featured, Movies, Television Tagged With: American Horror Story, Angela Bassett, Barbarian, Ethan Hawke, Hereditary, John Cho, Justin Long, Mulholland Drive, Naomi Watts, Sinister, The Exorcist, Toni Collette

A Big Year for Three Modern Horror Masters

June 1, 2019 by Tom Jolliffe

The Lighthouse

Tom Jolliffe takes a look ahead to The Nightingale, Midsommar and The Lighthouse… There’s been some great horror films in the last five years. Three in particular for me really harked back to a classic era sensibility, owing a lot to the best era in creepy atmospheric horror. These would evoke films (among others…) like […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Ari Aster, Hereditary, Jennifer Kent, Midsommar, Robert Eggers, Robert Pattinson, The Babadook, The Lighthouse, The Nightingale, the witch

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