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The Most Powerful Horror Villains Of All Time

April 16, 2021 by Red Stewart

Marvelous Videos on the most powerful horror villains… When your genre is predicated on terrorizing your protagonist, it inherently means giving your antagonist an extra oomph. They need some kind of power or ability that allows them to easily scare a group of humans without succumbing to some mishap like a bullet or fall. Horror […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Random Videos, Red Stewart Tagged With: A Nightmare on Elm Street, Alien, Angel Heart, Candyman, Chucky, Friday the 13th, halloween, Hellraiser, It, Jeepers Creepers, Maniac Cop, Marvelous Videos, Phantasm, The Exorcist, The Grudge

The Best Religious Horror Movies of All Time

March 30, 2021 by Red Stewart

Red Stewart presents religious horror movies… Many of the world’s religions have a sprawling mythos associated with them. Combine that with the general human morality conflict of good vs. evil and you have some fascinating theories and storylines about the way the metaphysical world works. Well, a lot of auteurs in the filmmaking field who […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Random Videos, Red Stewart Tagged With: frailty, Martyrs, Marvelous Videos, Rosemary's Baby, the exorcism of emily rose, The Exorcist, The House of the Devil, the omen, The Prophecy, the sacrament, The Wicker Man

Halloween’s David Gordon Green in talks to direct The Exorcist sequel for Blumhouse

December 25, 2020 by Gary Collinson

Having relaunched the Halloween franchise in 2018, it seems that Blumhouse and director David Gordon Green are now turning their attention to another iconic horror property. As reported by The Observer, Blumhouse and Morgan Creek are currently developing a sequel to the classic 1973 shocker The Exorcist, with Green in talks to direct. No further […]

Filed Under: Gary Collinson, Movies, News Tagged With: Blumhouse, The Exorcist

Movie Review – Leap of Faith: William Friedkin on The Exorcist (2019)

November 18, 2020 by Tom Beasley

Leap of Faith: William Friedkin on the Exorcist

Leap of Faith: William Friedkin on the Exorcist, 2019. Directed by Alexandre O. Philippe. Starring William Friedkin. SYNOPSIS: A journey through the creation and legacy of The Exorcist, straight from the horse’s mouth. There aren’t many horror movies which have been as thoroughly analysed and dissected as The Exorcist. William Friedkin’s 1973 masterpiece has been […]

Filed Under: Movies, Reviews, Tom Beasley Tagged With: Alexandre O. Philippe, Documentary, Horror, Leap of Faith, Shudder, The Exorcist, William Friedkin

What is the Most Iconic Image in Horror Cinema?

October 12, 2020 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe looks over some of the most iconic images in horror… Cinema is full of iconic films and iconic images within those. A moment of hope in Rocky personified by his mangled post fight face screaming ‘Adrian!’ or even in the same film, his victorious beating of those famous steps, holding his arms aloft […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: halloween, Nosferatu, Psycho, The Exorcist, the omen, The Shining, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

TV Review – Shudder’s Cursed Films Season 1

April 20, 2020 by Tom Beasley

Cursed Films

Tom Beasley takes a look at the new documentary from horror streaming service Shudder, examining the true stories behind some of Hollywood’s most notorious movie sets… Everyone who loves horror in any way will at some point have become fascinated by stories of cursed movie sets. Particularly nowadays, dozens of scandalous yarns of demonic possession […]

Filed Under: Reviews, Television, Tom Beasley Tagged With: Brandon Lee, Cursed Films, Gary Sherman, Horror, Jay Cheel, Kane Hodder, Linda Blair, Michael Berryman, Poltergeist, Richard Donner, Shudder, Shudder's Cursed Films, The Crow, The Exorcist, the omen, Twilight Zone: The Movie

Crisis of Faith in Cinema

March 27, 2020 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe takes a look at films about crisis of faith… The subject of faith in cinema has been around since the beginning. Whether this is faith in a religious sense, or spiritual, or of the self, it is in that test, or crisis of faith which sees a character put through a quest to […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Andrei Rublev, Andrei Tarkovsky, First Reformed, Ingmar Bergman, Max von Sydow, Stalker, The Exorcist, The Seventh Seal, Winter Light

Extreme Cinema – The Exorcist (1973)

March 1, 2020 by admin

The Exorcist, 1973. Directed by William Friedkin. Starring Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, Jason Miller and Linda Blair. The Exorcist was made by former documentary maker William Friedkin who had then recently won an Oscar for The French Connection (1971). The film was based on a real life possession involving a young boy in 1949. […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies Tagged With: The Exorcist

It’s Time to Give the Horror Genre More Respect

October 20, 2019 by Tom Jolliffe

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, […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Deep Red, Don't Look Now, Hereditary, Possession, Rosemary's Baby, Suspiria, The Exorcist, The Shining, The Thing, videodrome

2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – Leap of Faith

October 10, 2019 by Shaun Munro

Leap of Faith, 2019. Written and directed by Alexandre O. Philippe. Starring William Friedkin. SYNOPSIS: A lyrical and spiritual cinematic essay on The Exorcist, Leap of Faith explores the uncharted depths of William Friedkin’s mind’s eye, the nuances of his filmmaking process, and the mysteries of faith and fate that have shaped his life and […]

Filed Under: London Film Festival, Movies, Reviews, Shaun Munro Tagged With: 2019 BFI London Film Festival, Alexandre O. Philippe, Leap of Faith, The Exorcist, William Friedkin

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