Vanessa Maki with ten great horror movies centring on villainous protagonists… In the world of horror, typically we’re meant to root for the protagonists like the final girl or boy, the character who endears us the most, and so on. Occasionally those characters aren’t antagonistic or villainous, as many tropes follow particular formulas. However, there […]
Essential Demonic Horror Movies To Send Shivers Down Your Spine
Grab your Holy Bible and rosary beads as we look at ten essential demonic horror movies that will send shivers down your spine… As Flickering Myth takes a leap into independent film with The Baby in the Basket, our own little slice of demonic horror (releasing on DVD and Digital this February!), maybe now is […]
16 essential Halloween horror soundtracks
Sean Wilson presents a selection of spooky film scores that make for the ideal 31st October playlist… The scariest night of the year, Halloween, is upon us once again and, in addition to all the cosplay and trick or treating, a playlist of horror hits is also essential to the big night. Horror allows film […]
The Sound of Fear: 17 Creepy Choral Horror Soundtracks
Benjamin Wallfisch’s brilliantly sinister It score turns the human voice inside out – and it’s not the only one… The world’s most terrifying clown Pennywise is back to stalk our nightmares in the new adaptation of IT, on release now. Bill Skarsgard takes over from Tim Curry as the dreaded Stephen King creation and director […]
Godzilla x Kong crushes Dev Patel and the Devil at the box office
Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire continued to leave a Kaiju-sized footprint at the worldwide box-office, and in the process crushed new releases Monkey Man and The First Omen. Warner Bros. and Legendary’s Godzilla x Kong stomped its way to a sophomore weekend of $31 million, lifting the domestic total to $135 million, which already […]
Movie Review – The First Omen (2024)
The First Omen, 2024. Directed by Arkasha Stevenson. Starring Nell Tiger Free, Ralph Ineson, Sônia Braga, Tawfeek Barhom, María Caballero, Charles Dance, Bill Nighy, Nicole Sorace, Ishtar Currie Wilson, Andrea Arcangeli, Guido Quaglione, Dora Romano, Michelangelo Dalisi, Anton Alexander, Mia McGovern Zaini, and Rachel Hurd-Wood. SYNOPSIS: A young American woman is sent to Rome to […]
The First Omen brings forth a terrifying new trailer
For decades, The Omen franchise has brought religious-tined scares to audiences. The long-running horror movie series is back with a prequel to the classic film. 20th Century Studios has released a terrifying new trailer and poster for The First Omen, their upcoming psychological horror film. Check out the poster and trailer below… The film is […]
Horror prequel The First Omen sets April release with first-look image
20th Century Studios has released the first official image from The First Omen, the upcoming prequel to the iconic horror franchise, which is set to release in cinemas in April 2024. Directed by Arkasha Stevenson (Legion, Brand New Cherry Flavor), The First Omen stars Nell Tiger Free (Servant) as Margaret – seen in the official […]
Seven Famous Cursed Movie Productions
Disasters, terrible luck, radiation poisoning and death. We look at some famous cursed film productions… With Flickering Myth’s first foray into movie-making on The Baby in the Basket now underway, we’ve found ourselves faced with a number of problems throughout pre-production as recently covered in our pre-production update. We’ve dealt with unavoidable dropouts, unexpected costs […]
What is the Most Iconic Image in Horror Cinema?
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 […]
