Casey Chong with ten essential Italian horror films of the 1980s… If the 1970s marked the golden era of Italian horror, offering us genre-defining classics from The Bird with the Crystal Plumage to Deep Red, and of course, Suspiria, then the 80s era was best described as the culmination of the country’s distinctive flair for […]
6 Hotel Horror Movies Worth Checking Out
Flickering Myth’s Casey Chong presents a selection of hotel horror movies for your watch list… In the world of horror movies, checking into a hotel room can be your impending doom. Look at Marion Crane, who stays at Bates Motel, only to end up being brutally stabbed to death while she’s in a shower in […]
From Banned to Beloved: Video Nasties That Deserve Critical Re-evaluation
Adam Page delves into the world of the video nasty to see which of the controversial shockers deserve critical re-evaluation… I get it, I really do. Back when Mary Whitehouse and her gang of pearl-clutching warriors put together their list of 72 movies they deemed too dangerous for the British public in 1984, they were […]
The Gruesome Brilliance of 1980s Italian Horror Cinema
Tom Jolliffe goes back to the 80s to look at a crazy, gore-filled period in Italian horror cinema… There’s a great legacy in Italian horror. Most famously, the giallo films which rose to prominence through the 60’s and 70’s (led first by Mario Bava, and taken to new heights via Dario Argento) put Italian horror […]
Video Nasties – The Beyond (1981)
The Beyond, 1981. Directed by Lucio Fulci. Starring Catriona McCall, David Warbeck, Ciniza Monreale and Antoine St John. SYNOPSIS: In New Orleans in the 1920s, an artist is gruesomely killed by an angry mob who believe he is a warlock. Several decades later, a young woman named Liza acquires the hotel where the artist was killed […]
