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10 Great Slow-Burn Horror Movies To Fill You With Dread

April 16, 2025 by Casey Chong

Casey Chong with ten slow-burn horror movies that will fill you with dread… One of the most interesting things about the horror genre is its diverse A-to-Z elements from body horror to found footage, dark fantasy, slasher and supernatural. Then, there’s the slow-burn horror and as the name suggests, this subgenre focuses on the deliberate […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Casey Chong, Featured, Movies, Top Stories Tagged With: Don't Look Now, Hereditary, It Follows, Let The Right One In, Rosemary's Baby, Session 9, The Orphanage, The Shining, the witch

6 Hotel Horror Movies Worth Checking Out

November 29, 2025 by Casey Chong

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 […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Casey Chong, Featured, Movies, Top Stories Tagged With: 1408, bug, Daughters of Darkness, Ghostkeeper, Horror Hotel, Psycho, the beyond, The City of the Dead, The Innkeepers, The Shining, Vacancy

10 Terrifying Bath Scenes in Horror Movies

December 20, 2025 by Casey Chong

Casey Chong presents a selection of terrifying bath scenes from horror movies… Taking a bath is supposed to be a relaxing me-time moment. But in the world of horror films, this might come across as a confined situation for all things morbid. An unfortunate character could end up drowning in a bathtub filled with bubbly […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Casey Chong, Featured, Movies, Top Stories Tagged With: A Nightmare on Elm Street, A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child, Arachnophobia, Final Destination, Mirrors, Psycho, slither, The Shining, The Tingler, What Lies Beneath

Chilling Stranded-in-the-Snow Movies for Your Watchlist

January 7, 2026 by Casey Chong

Casey Chong presents a selection of stranded-in-the-snow movies to add to the chills… Films where the characters are trapped in a snowstorm due to various reasons – a car breaks down, a result of a plane crash on the icy location, or seeking a temporary shelter at a remote setting – has frequently been employed […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Casey Chong, Featured, Movies, Top Stories Tagged With: Arctic, Cold Meat, No Exit, Society of the Snow, The Grey, The Shining, The Thing, Wind Chill, wrong turn 4: bloody beginnings

The Shining at 45: The Story Behind Stanley Kubrick’s Psychological Horror Masterpiece

May 26, 2025 by admin

Hasitha Fernando on the story behind The Shining as it turns 45… Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining had a divisive reception from film critics at the time of its release. However, decades later the effort has been appreciated and hailed as one of the greatest horror flicks of all time. As the masterpiece celebrates its 45th […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Hasitha Fernando, Movies Tagged With: Danny Lloyd, Jack Nicholson, Scatman Crothers, Shelley Duvall, Stanley Kubrick, Stephen King, The Shining

The Top 10 Stephen King Movies

September 2, 2017 by admin

Tom Jolliffe with his top ten Stephen King movies… With the impending release of the new It film, now seems a good time to run through a top 10 list of Stephen King movies. These are all feature films. I’ve not included TV miniseries. As a writer it’s fair to say that King has been […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Carrie, Christine, It, Misery, Silver Bullet, Stand By Me, Stephen King, The Dead Zone, The Green Mile, The Mist, The Shawshank Redemption, The Shining

How To Be Unique In Cinema

September 22, 2018 by Tom Jolliffe

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Tom Jolliffe delves into what makes a film truly unique… If you’ve watched Captain America, or Spider-Man, or another masked hero, you’ve pretty much seen a variation on the same film. Genres themselves have clearly identifiable tropes and an action film for example, will often adhere to specific action genre calling cards. That doesn’t necessarily […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: 2001: A Space Odyssey, Black Panther, Hellraiser, Mandy, Nic Cage, Panos Cosmatos, Pulp Fiction, Stalker, Stanley Kubrick, The Shining

Great Movies Guaranteed To Creep You Out

April 25, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe offers up a selection of unsettling cinema guaranteed to give you the creeps… Every film has a particular D.N.A. Within this cinematic coding it can feature elements synonymous with a particular genre, or techniques to give the film an overriding tone. For horror, the film-makers could mould their film in a variety of […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Audition, Blue Velvet, cure, Hard Candy, Misery, Nightcrawler, Repulsion, Silence of the Lambs, The Exorcist, The Shining

Films That DEMAND Multiple Viewings

November 25, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

It’s time to take a look at those layered films you might not get the first time, and therefore demand multiple viewings… Cinema is a beautiful thing and depending on your mood, there is every kind of film out there to give you what you need. Some films hit every mark on the first viewing […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Andrei Tarkovsky, Burning, Decision to Leave, Lee Chang-dong, Mirror, Park Chan-Wook, Paul Thomas Anderson, Stanley Kubrick, The Master, The Matrix, The Shining, The Wachowskis

The Must-See Horror Movies From Every Decade

October 8, 2023 by EJ Moreno

EJ Moreno on the best horror movies in cinema history… Horror is a film genre as old as the medium itself. Since the start of the cinemas, people have packed the seats in hopes of getting some chills and thrills. As a life-long fan of the genre, it’s essential to recognize the history of horror […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, EJ Moreno, Featured, Movies Tagged With: Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, Audition, Evil Dead II, Frankenstein, Freaks, Get Out, Godzilla, House on Haunted Hill, Night of the Living Dead, Nosferatu, Paranormal Activity, Psycho, Saw, Scream, The Cabin in the Woods, The Exorcist, The Phantom of the Opera, The Shining, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

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