As we prepare for the release of The Baby in the Basket, Tom Jolliffe presents essential selection of gothic horror films guaranteed to scare you senseless… Dark, macabre psychological stories set in isolated locations with the uncanny or supernatural. Gothic horror movies are often dripping in atmosphere, enveloping the audience in a deeply unsettling story. […]
7 Underappreciated Final Girls in Horror
EJ Moreno looks at horror’s underrated final girls… A Final Girl is defined as the “last girl(s) or woman alive to confront the killer, ostensibly the one left to tell the story.” But horror fans know that she’s much more than that. From kicking ass to inspiring a younger generation, we’ve seen some iconic final […]
Mia Goth: The One to Watch
Tom Jolliffe looks at Mia Goth’s compelling career so far and the promise of what lies ahead… From the outset, Mia Goth was born into an interesting fusion. Canadian and Brazilian parents, she was raised in the UK, occasionally diverting back to her parents’ native homelands during her upbringing. A full name like Mia Gypsy […]
Garish Colour, Prog Rock, Masked Killers and a Glass Fetish: Dario Argento’s Glory Years
With his new giallo Dark Glasses coming to Shudder in October, Tom Jolliffe looks back at the defining films of Dario Argento… Looking back over his peak years, whilst Dario Argento may not have been the first pioneer of Giallo horror, he followed in the footsteps of the great Mario Bava and popularised Italian horror […]
Marvelous Italian Horrors That Are Exceptionally Good!
Marvelous Videos presents Italian horror movies for the ages… It seems that many countries contribute to the proliferation of the horror genre. Korean and Japanese horror focuses on spirits and ghosts, American horror is more about tangible threats, and German expressionism lays the baseline for everything scary. And then there’s Italian horror. Also known as […]
Terrifying Witch Horror Movies That Will Chill You To The Bone
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 Joy of a Loving 4K Restoration
Tom Jolliffe on the joy of a loving 4K restoration… In cinema, there’s a progressive fascination with new fangled technology. With every passing year, new tech and new kit is released leaving those with a technological fascination slobbering in anticipation. If you’re a filmmaker with any passing eye upon breaking Netflix you know that the […]
Daria Nicolodi: Remembering a Horror Icon
Tom Jolliffe looks back at the iconic career of the late Daria Nicolodi… 2020 hasn’t been very forgiving, and it was sad to hear the news of Daria Nicolodi’s passing. To a corner of horror fandom, particularly those versed in golden era Giallo horror from Dario Argento (to whom she was a long term partner, […]
Suspiria remake director details his plans for the sequel that probably won’t happen
Although a sequel to director Luca Guadagnino’s 2018 remake of Dario Argento’s Suspiria is highly unlikely, the filmmaker has revealed the movie was originally intended to be a two-part story. In an interview with The Film Stage, Guadagnino offered some details on the sequel which would have included the story unfolding across multiple time zones and spaces. “I’ll […]
Master of Horror: Five Essential Dario Argento Films
Dominic O’Brien selects his Five Essential Films of Dario Argento… Although he has fallen from grace somewhat recently, during the 70s and 80s Dario Argento was the master of suspense and mystery. During this time he managed to craft some of the finest pieces of Italian giallo and genre films. Still, to this day his […]
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