Casey Chong looks at ten essential horror movie jump scares…Horror movies are all about the cinematic experience of scaring the hell out of you, keeping you on the edge of your seat and startling you while watching a scene. The latter is especially true with jump scares, one of the most widely-used visual techniques in […]
Found Footage Horror’s Most Terrifying Scenes
Andrew Brassleay on found footage horror’s most terrifying scenes…Found-footage horror is a genre with much appeal for low-budget moviemakers looking for cheap thrills. So, with so many films to choose from, its sometimes tricky to find the jewels in this creepy crown.But thanks to the genre’s realism and frequent use of first-person-perspective giving audiences the […]
Marvelous Tech-Horror Movies You Should Track Down
Marvelour Videos presents tech-horror films you should track down…We often don’t think about technology being scary. After all, these pieces of tech are something we interact with on a daily basis. But isn’t that the idea? That something as simple as a television or a phone has managed to create a symbiotic relationship with us […]
Blu-ray Review – Host (2020)
Host, 2020.Directed by Rob Savage. Starring Haley Bishop, Jemma Moore, Emma Louise Webb, Radina Drandova, Caroline Ward, Seylan Baxter and James Swanton.SYNOPSIS:A séance performed via Zoom goes horribly wrong.It was only a matter of time before ‘Lockdown Horror’ became a thing and the first past the post to claim this inevitable future buzzword as a […]
The Best Independent Films of 2020
EJ Moreno on the best independent films of the year…In a year where cinemas have been closed worldwide, it has been up to independent films to give hungry moviegoers exactly what they wanted. That focus on films in small theatrical runs or straight to video-on-demand platforms really gave way for some wonderful projects to get […]
The Best Horror Movies of 2020
Hasitha Fernando on the best horror movies of 2020…The COVID-19 pandemic took the world by storm, affecting the lives of every man, woman and child from every walk of life. Arguably one of the industries which suffered the biggest crippling blow from it was the film industry. Theatre halls closed, tentpole releases were indefinitely delayed, […]
2020 in Horror: A Year of Shudder, Epic Debuts, Indie Darlings, and the return of Universal Monsters
EJ Moreno casts his eye back over the year in horror…The landscape of cinema was forever changed by 2020. From the global pandemic to streaming’s rapid growth, it seems like everything was rocked for better or worse. But something thrived in the rockiest of times, a genre that lives on the margin of indie and […]
Movie Review – Host (2020)
Host, 2020.Directed by Rob Savage. Starring Haley Bishop, Jemma Moore, Emma Louise Webb, and Radina Drandova.SYNOPSIS:Six friends get together during lockdown for their weekly zoom call. Their normal group chat turns dark when a seance goes wrong.For anyone experiencing life in the last few months, we all know Zoom calls can feel like a horror […]
Shudder announces Zoom-based horror movie Host
Horror streaming service Shudder has announced the upcoming premiere of Host, a new Zoom-based horror film from award-winning director Rob Savage (Dawn of the Deaf) which was shot remotely during quarantine with the actors in their own homes. Host promises to deliver “groundbreaking scares, stunts, and surprises” and tells the story of six friends who hire […]
