Jordan Peele follows Get Out with an ambitious and topical horror rollercoaster By Jonathan Hatfull 18-03-19 5 Released: 22 March 2019 Certificate: 15 Director: Jordan Peele Writer: Jordan Peele Cast: Lupita Nyong’o, Winston Duke, Elisabeth Moss, Tim Heidecker, Shahadi Wright Joseph, Evan Alex Distributor: Universal If you like this, try… Funny Games Michael Haneke’s home
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Does horror The Prodigy push beyond the standard spooky kid template? By Amy West 15-03-19 1,194 Released: 15 March 2019 Certificate: 15 Director: Nicholas McCarthy Writer: Jeff Buhler Cast: Taylor Schilling, Jackson Robert Scott, Peter Mooney, Colm Feore, Brittany Allen Distributor: Vertigo Releasing If you like this, try… The Omen Creepy kids don’t come any
“This house is a bitch,” pastor Ellie Mueller (Karen Woditsch) tells Don Koch (WWE legend Phil “CM Punk” Brooks) of the Victorian mansion opposite her church that he is fixing up so that he and his pregnant wife Liz (Trieste Kelly Dunn) can start a family there. “Certain places have personalities, and sometimes they’re rotten.
When films open with establishing shots of a city, it’s normally to evoke a sense of place for a story that will, presumably, mostly take place there. When a horror opens this way, it can also be a way of setting up locations for third-act set-pieces. Zoo, written, directed, edited and scored by Antonio Tublen,
“The following presentation is derived from footage captured by the catastrophic reality TV pilot Extremely Haunted Hoarders,” reads text at the beginning of The Hoard, over a rapid – indeed, so rapid as to be near inscrutable – montage of monstrosity, mayhem and murder. It is not just a precise prelude of what is to
Zach Lipovsky and Adam B. Stein’s film opens to the distorted strains of ice cream truck music, as seven-year-old Chloe (Lexy Kolker) peeks out at Mr Snowcone’s blue-and-pink vehicle parked in the suburban street below. Ice cream is such a simple, tantalising pleasure, yet Chloe’s dad Henry (Emile Hirsch) pulls Chloe back from the window
The story goes that when a foundling child suddenly appeared on their farm, decent, warm-hearted Jonathan and Martha Kent adopted him as their own under the name Clark Kent and raised him with their homespun rural values before sending him out into the world. This legend casts its shadow over The Witch: Part 1 –
Taking place (mostly) in an isolated petrol station on the night that the Danish football team is playing in the finals of the European Championship, Finale sets itself up as a familiar – indeed timeless – tale of predatory victimisation. The station owner’s daughter Agnes (Anne Bergfeld) and disgruntled employee Belinda (Karin Michelsen) are working
“She wants to be let out,” says a soldier, drawn, as if by a whispering siren call, to the wooden chest that his troop is transporting across the border to destroy. They are intercepted by another squadron, and the bloody skirmish that ensues – in which that first soldier acts as if possessed, and fights
This fourth feature from Ron Carlson (All American Christmas Carol, Tom Cool, Midgets Vs. Mascots) opens with a before-and-after sequence: a young woman buys peyote from Native American Bigfoot (Michael Horse) and his diminutive sidekick Firecracker (Danny Woodburn), with a warning of ‘grave consequences’ should their client disrupt the local fauna; and then the same
A faded, jumpy film reel from the 1970s, part of a correspondence course from the ‘Stockholm Institute for Magnetic Research’, claims to help the viewer deal with the modern age’s ‘duality of the self’. The method used, similar to – but not the same as – hypnosis, promises to allow subjects to reach their ‘full
Prepubescent Vivien (Sarah DaSilva) and Sophia (Lori Phun) reside on Level 10 of an authoritarian boarding school for girls, and dream of being chosen for adoption by a good family and seeing the sky for their first time. While helping Sophia pick up the jar of facial cream that she has dropped, Vivien commits a
After creating plays for radio and also making a series of short films, writer/director Billy Senese helmed his first feature, Closer To God (aka A Frankenstein Story) in 2014, updating the Frankenstein myth to the age of genetic science and cloning. Now his latest, The Dead Center, explores mental illness and demonic possession within a
Last year’s Halloween saw the return of one of horror cinema’s most iconic boogeymen, as Michael Myers stalked and slashed his way through Haddonfield, Illinois for one final showdown with Laurie Strode. It was wonderful to see the great Jamie Lee Curtis back on screen as the great horror heroine, and it was such a
Feminist horror film collective The Final Girls is back with a second superb short film showcase, bringing a selection of shorts from around the world and some of most exciting new female voices in genre with We Are The Weirdos 2. Since their first event screened Claire Denis’ Trouble Every Day back in 2016, The
A haunting is going on in the remote, snow blanketed Quebec village of Irénée-les-Neiges. After a young man, Simon Dubé, dies by crashing his car into a concrete wall, mysterious incidents begin to manifest. There are eerie bumps and overhead footsteps in the night, while Simon’s mother, Gisèle (Deschênes), and brother, Jimmy (Naylor), are visited
You might not know Javier Botet’s face but you’ll definitely know his work. The Spanish actor broke out in modern horror classic [REC] and almost certainly gave you a heart attack with his role as Niña Medeiros in the film’s final minutes and its various sequels. He played the title role in Andy Muschietti’s Mama, he
By all accounts, Anna And The Apocalypse would appear to be the world’s first feature-length zombie comedy musical set in high school… and at Christmas… in Scotland. Shot around the likes of Port Glasgow, Greenock and Falkirk, the film premiered to considerable buzz at last year’s Fantastic Fest in the US and is now making
We have a bundle of classic and modern Warner Bros horror films on DVD, complete with gorgeous cover art, up for grabs with our latest competition. The Warner Bros Horror Collection is in selected stores until Sunday 4 November, but you can also try your hand at winning one. For a chance to win, simply
A group of friends head to a mysterious Escape Room and face their own dark secrets By Jonathan Hatfull 29-10-18 721 Released: 29 October 2018 (VOD) Certificate: 15 Director: Will Wernick Writer: Noah AD Cast: Evan Williams, Annabelle Stephenson, Elisabeth Hower, Dan J Johnson Distributor: The Movie Partnership If you like this, try… The Laplace’s
If you’re looking for a quick dose of seasonal supernatural scares, look no further: Rob Savage’s excellent horror short Salt, starring the awesome Alice Lowe, is now available to watch online. The star of Sightseers and Prevenge plays a mother who races against a nightmarish demon to protect her child, and we’re not going to
Very few British TV series have a fanbase as dearly devoted as Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace. It was a love-letter to the horror genre, it was beautifully observed, and it was absolutely hilarious. Now, co-creator and star Matthew Holness has delivered something very different with his feature debut Possum. It’s a chilling, challenging and deeply unnerving
Val Kilmer is a potentially murderous caretaker in The Super, from producer Dick Wolf By Jonathan Hatfull 24-10-18 1,400 Released: Out now Director: Stephan Rick Writer: John J McLaughlin Cast: Patrick John Flueger, Val Kilmer, Louisa Krause, Paul Ben-Victor, Yul Vasquez Distributor: The Movie Partnership (VOD) If you like this, try… The Toolbox Murders Angela
All The Gods In The Sky is an ambitious and genre-bending work meant to shock and awe By Katherine McLaughlin 19-10-18 970 Certificate: TBC Director: Quarxx Writer: Quarxx Cast: Jean-Luc Couchard, Melanie Gaydos, Zelie Rixhon Distributor: TBC If you like this, try… Calvaire A twisted rural horror directed by Fabrice Du Welz Expanded from a
Dan Stevens sets out to rescue his sister from cult leader Michael Sheen in slow-burn horror Apostle By Jonathan Hatfull 16-10-18 66 Released: Out now Certificate: 18 Director: Gareth Evans Writer: Gareth Evans Cast: Dan Stevens, Michael Sheen, Lucy Boynton, Mark Lewis Jones, Bill Milner, Paul Higgins Distributor: Netflix If you like this, try… The
Mike Flanagan is one of the most consistently excellent filmmakers working in the horror genre at the moment with Absentia, Oculus, Before I Wake, Ouija: Origin Of Evil and Gerald’s Game, and his latest, a Netflix series based on Shirley Jackson’s classic The Haunting Of Hill House, is right up there with his best. Rather
Shirley Jackson defined the haunted house genre with her novel back in 1953, and Robert Wise delivered one of the greatest horror films ever made with his 1963 screen adaptation. But if anyone was going to make a worthwhile update (we’ll forget the risible Jan De Bont remake), it was Oculus writer-director Mike Flanagan. While
Monica Bellucci is coming for our souls in demon-slaying blast Nektrotronic By Elena Lazic 01-10-18 616 Released: TBC Certificate: TBC Director: Kiah Roache-Turner Writer: Kiah Roache-Turner, Tristan Roache-Turner Cast: Ben O’Toole, Monica Bellucci, Caroline Ford, Tess Haubrich, Epine Bob Savea, David Wenham Distributor: TBC In this riotous second feature from Australian director Kiah Roache-Turner (Wyrmwood),
Mike Flanagan’s Netflix series of Shirley Jackson’s classic The Haunting Of Hill House is one of our most highly anticipated horror events of the year and the first proper trailer is…well, it’s brilliant. Very creepy, very dark, and goddammit, we cannot wait for this. Flanagan (Oculus, Gerald’s Game, Hush) created and directed the series, which
Sarah Waters’ chiller is an interesting change of pace for Lenny Abrahamson, coming off the deeply moving Room and the uproarious Frank. However, his gripping 2012 drama What Richard Did proved he’s more than capable of mining the icy dark dysfunction and tragedy at the heart of this 1948-set gothic, which is cannily adapted by
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