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The Top 10 Horror Movies of 1985

October 31, 2025 by admin

Casey Chong takes a trip back 40 years to look at the best horror movies of 1985… 1985 may have been a banner year for hit movies that reached the pop-culture milestones, notably Back to the Future, The Goonies and Rambo: First Blood Part II. But let’s not forget the horror genre, which equally enjoyed […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Casey Chong, Featured, Movies, Top Stories Tagged With: A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge, Day of the Dead, Demons, Friday the 13th: A New Beginning, Fright Night, House, Phenomena, Re-Animator, The Return of the Living Dead, the stuff

10 Crazy Cult Horror Movies You Need To See

May 10, 2025 by Tom Jolliffe

Go big or go home with these ten horror movies that dial the crazy up to the max… The horror genre is experiencing a boom right now with plenty of popular films destined to be cult favourites. You can have subtle, atmosphere-driven horror, folk, mind-bending cerebral horror and more. You can also have a horror […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Hiruko The Goblin, House, infinity pool, Lair of the White Worm, Mandy, Nightbreed, Possession, society, Titane, xtro

A Celebration of Janus Films

March 10, 2019 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe takes a look at Janus Films, the iconic distributors of arthouse and World Cinema… It’s not often we as film goers pay much focus on film distributors. We all know the biggies. Those images that precede the big tent pole blockbusters almost seep into our synapses without much notice. Warner Bros., Universal, Disney, […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Akira Kurosawa, Andrei Tarkovsky, Element Of Crime, Federico Fellini, House, Ingmar Bergman, Janus Films, Jean-Pierre Melville, L'Avventura, Le Samourai, mona lisa, Paris, Persona, Stalker, Texas, The Coen Brothers, the long good friday, The Seventh Seal, Wim Wenders, Withnail & I

Blu-ray Review – Nobuhiko Obayashi’s 80s Kadokawa Years

December 10, 2022 by Rachel Bellwoar

Rachel Bellwoar reviews the Nobuhiko Obayashi’s 80s Kadokawa Years box set… When talking about Nobuhiko Obayashi (at least in the US) it’s almost a given that any conversation about his work will start by mentioning House (1977), and for good reason. House is a one-of-a-kind movie – a film that garners recognition – yet, given […]

Filed Under: Movies, Rachel Bellwoar, Reviews Tagged With: hausu, His Motorbike Her Island, House, Nobuhiko Obayashi, Nobuhiko Obayashi’s 80s Kadokawa Years, School in the Crosshairs, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, The Island Closest to Heaven, Third Window Films

Essential Japanese Horror Movies

July 1, 2021 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe offers up some essential Japanese horror movies… When it comes to horror cinema across Asia, Japan in particular has had a long association and skill with the genre. The early 00’s boom in particular saw a huge interest in Japanese horror, but long before some of these iconic films like The Grudge or Dark […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Essential..., Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Audition, House, Kwaidan, Onibaba, Pulse, Ring, Tetsuo: The Iron Man

Underrated Horror Comedy Movies That You Must Watch

April 1, 2021 by Red Stewart

Marvelous Videos presents ten laugh-out-loud horror comedies… Horror comedy – it’s literally an oxymoron. How can any piece of storytelling make sense if it’s trying to both scare someone and make them laugh their head off? Genre mixers have existed for a while now, but those combinations have at least made sense: action and fantasy, […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Random Videos, Red Stewart Tagged With: Attack the Block, Bad Milo!, dead heat, House, john dies at the end, Marvelous Videos, rubber, The Frighteners, the stuff, Wolfcop

Blu-ray Review – House: The Complete Collection

March 27, 2017 by Amie Cranswick

House: The Complete Collection Limited Edition Box Set Directed by Steve Miner/Ethan Wiley/James Isaac/Lewis Abernathy. Starring William Katt, Kay Lenz, George Wendt, Richard Moll, Arye Gross, Jonathan Stark, Royal Dano, Lar Park-Lincoln, Amy Yasbeck, Bill Maher, John Ratzenberger, Dean Cleverdon, Lance Henriksen, Brion James, Rita Taggart, Dedee Pfeiffer, Terri Treas, Melissa Clayton, Scott Burkholder, Denny […]

Filed Under: Chris Ward, Movies, Reviews Tagged With: Amy Yasbeck, Arye Gross, Bill Maher, Brion James, Dean Cleverdon, Dedee Pfeiffer, Denny Dillon, Ethan Wiley, George Wendt, House, House II: The Second Story, House III: The Horror Show, House IV: The Repossession, House: The Complete Collection, James Isaac, John Ratzenberger, Jonathan Stark, Kane Hodder, Kay Lenz, Lance Henriksen, Lar Park-Lincoln, Lewis Abernathy, Melissa Clayton, Richard Moll, Rita Taggart, Royal Dano, Scott Burkholder, Steve Miner, Terri Treas, William Katt

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