Marvelous Videos presents the season of the witch…. Witches are a perennial staple of Halloween, but that prominence amongst kid decorum and costume fantasies has ruined their original mythological nature. These creepy old hags didn’t emerge out of nowhere – there was this genuine fear amongst older civilizations that individuals (mostly women) were capable of […]
The Ten Best Horror Movies of the 2010s
EJ Moreno on the best horror films of the last decade… While making this list, it dawned on me just how lucky horror fans were this past decade. Between 2010 and 2019, hundreds of genre films made their mark with viewers and shook the industry up. We saw comedy directors turn into masters of the […]
Alex Wolff discusses the difficulties of shooting one particular scene in Hereditary
One of the most effective horror movies of recent memory is Ari Aster’s first feature film, Hereditary, and now one of the stars of the film has expressed his thoughts on shooting one particular scene. In a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Alex Wolff, who plays Peter Graham, has admitted the fatal car accident […]
October Horrors 2019 Day 21 – Hereditary (2018)
Hereditary, 2018. Directed by Ari Aster. Starring Toni Collette, Alex Wolff, Milly Shapiro, Ann Dowd and Gabriel Byrne. SYNOPSIS: After the death of her secretive mother, Annie Graham and her family are subjected to a series of increasingly horrific events that threaten destroy her and her family. The relationship between a mother and her children […]
It’s Time to Give the Horror Genre More Respect
As Halloween approaches, Tom Jolliffe looks at the Horror genre, and why it needs more respect… As a movie lover with a wide ranging taste in films I’ve long been fairly open to an array of genres. It was recently though, and perhaps in part this stems from writing a few horror features of late, […]
A Big Year for Three Modern Horror Masters
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 […]
Flickering Myth’s Top Ten Movies of 2018
Flickering Myth’s writing team present our top ten movies of 2018… As 2018 draws to a close, the writers here at Flickering Myth have been looking back over another twelve months of cinema to vote on our favourite movies of the year. As always, our writers have shared their personal top ten picks, which we’ve […]
Witches, Vengeance, and Silence! The 10 Best Horror Films of 2018
EJ Moreno on 2018’s 10 horror films… 2018 is another year with some of the most remarkable horror films to grace our screens. In a year stacked with slashers, witches, and even the horror of silence, there is something for every viewer to enjoy. Michael Myers returned to the screens, Toni Collette scared us all, […]
Exclusive Interview – Composer Colin Stetson talks Hereditary’s score, creating evil, and the problem with clickbait
Red Stewart chats with Colin Stetson about Hereditary…. Colin Stetson is an American composer who has been working in the film and television industries since the mid-2000s. He is best known for his compositions for projects like Blue Caprice, The First, and Hereditary. Flickering Myth had the privilege to interview him, and I in turn had the […]
The Cult of Cults in Movies
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 […]
