Something’s lurking at the edge of the frontier in horror Western The Wind By Elena Lazic 14-09-18 82 Certificate: TBC Director: Emma Tammi Writer: Teresa Sutherland Cast: Caitlin Gerard, Julia Goldani Telles, Ashley Zukerman, Miles Anderson, Dylan McTee Distributor: TBA Women have typically been confined to background action in the western, this most masculine of
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Candyman is one of the greatest modern horror films, and it only gets better with age. Over the year’s, the reputation of Bernard Rose’s socially conscious urban legend chiller has grown and grown, and Tony Todd’s performance in the title role is iconic. The social commentary hasn’t dated, the scares haven’t lessened, and that soundtrack
That director David Gordon Green, together with screenwriters Danny McBride and Jeff Fradley, opted not to try and outdo the original Halloween was probably a smart decision. Who would even dare do such a thing? An entirely original, completely new take on the story would have been a risky gamble, and bound to disappoint some,
Two young women venture out into the post-apocalypse in Carolina Hellsgård’s zombie movie Ever After By Elena Lazic 09-09-18 482 Released: TBC Certificate: TBC Director: Carolina Hellsgård Writer: Olivia Vieweg Cast: Gro Swantje Kohlhof, Maja Lehrer, Trine Dyrholm Distributor: TBC Because the concept of a post-apocalyptic zombie world lends itself so well to studies of
There are lots of reasons to love The Conjuring movies, from the detailed 1970s costumes and powerful performances to the artful way James Wan plays out a jump scare. But the best thing about them is how aware they are that great horror movies don’t just frighten you; they can make you smile, make you
The Nun is finally released in UK cinemas soon and it looks like the promotional campaign is revving things up so as to prepare us for the ‘darkest chapter in The Conjuring universe’ yet. In anticipation, Warner Bros Studios has unveiled three new clips (via Bloody Disgusting) that not only establish the film’s gorgeous Gothic aesthetic
Now that 2018’s Arrow Video FrightFest is over, here is a round-up of eight more films (The Most Assassinated Woman In The World; Book Of Monsters; Heretiks; Chuck Steel: Night Of The Trampires; Life After Flash; Hell Is Where The Home Is; Anna And The Apocalypse; Open 24 Hours) and a short (Final Stop) that
The old saying that beauty is only skin deep has inspired a legion of horror films, but while Takeshi Sone’s latest has a plastic surgery at its centre, it’s much more interested in the lingering effects of emotional, rather than physical, trauma. In other words, what starts out feeling like a chilly Cronenbergian horror takes
Writer-director Demián Rugna’s Terrified was one of FrightFest’s most hotly anticipated films, promising full-blooded scares (a promise made by the filmmaker in a charming and immensely quotable video intro), and it definitely starts with a bang. No sooner have we had the obligatory but decidedly creepy “hearing voices” scene than we’re witnessing a horrifying and
This year’s FrightFest features three documentaries that hold up a mirror to the festival audience. For Cult Of Terror, Wolfman’s Got Nards and FrightFest: Beneath The Dark Heart Of Cinema all show that strange, intimate and weirdly obsessive connection that horror fans have to the films that feed their insatiable hunger for cathartic thrills and
With their previous film JeruZalem, Israeli brothers Doron and Yoav Paz refreshed found footage with intradiegetic ‘Smart Glasses’, and reinvigorated the tropes of zombie apocalypse by staging them on their conflicted home territory of Jerusalem, and inflecting them with Dark Angels, Nephilim and other monsters from the Old Testament and Talmud. Their latest, The Golem,
Climax opens near its end, with a god’s-eye aerial view of virgin snow being disturbed by the staggering traversal – and collapse – of a young, blood-stained woman dressed in a tank top. Text appears on screen which reads, “To our creators who are no longer with us,” framing the full listed credits which immediately
“You know my girlfriend left me last week because she said I was too safe. Now look at me: I’m running around an underground facility, fighting wannabe ninjas, with a cracked rib, so as I could deport a god.” The speaker is Sam Levi (Mike Buckingham), delivering one of those conveniently recapitulatory lines, typical especially
Yvonne Strahovski fights off a masked home invader in routine cabin in the woods horror He’s Out There By Jonathan Hatfull 27-08-18 65 When people go to a cabin in the woods in horror movies, these places tend to have been in the family for generations, or a surprisingly cheap rental (uh-oh), or newly purchased
Horror fans may or may not be familiar with the Tokoloshe, an evil South African spirit who targets small children. While the creepy run-down hospital setting of Jerome Pikwane’s debut feature is much more familiar ground (and proves to be as unsettling as ever), this is a film about repressed trauma and the powerful preying
The Pollack family are heading to a cabin in the woods for the healing power of the rocks it’s built on, but genre fans shouldn’t be too surprised to discover they’re heading towards creative dismemberment instead. However, there may or may not be something special about the ground on which so much blood is spilled
The Night Sitter opens with the sound of strange humming – and then we see young ‘Amber’ (Elyse Dufour) driving to a house in a suburban cul de sac for a child-minding job. As Amber carefully discards her cigarette, applies drops to her eyes, and practises introducing herself by her false name, it is clear
“This is the one you’ve been waiting for…”, goes the first line heard in Bodied, reflecting the precise thoughts of those of us who have been waiting six long years since Joseph Kahn’s postmodern meta slasher Detention knocked us sideways – or 13 years for those lost folk who missed Detention but really loved the
The latest horror from Martyrs filmmaker Pascal Laugier sees the writer-director return to the theme of young women in physical and psychological pain in a film that frustrates as much as it intrigues. We begin with aspiring teenage horror writer Beth (Emilia Jones), her sister Vera (Taylor Hickson) and their mother (Mylène Farmer) arriving at
When, in John Landis’ The Blues Brothers, Jake and Eliot roll up at Bob’s Country Bunker claiming to be booked artists the Good Ol’ Boys, half the joke is the absurdity of seeing an urban rhythm and blues band having to impersonate a country-and-western outfit. Though more horror than comedy, Lasso, the feature debut of
At the beginning of CTRL, Christian Lex (Saabeah Theos) and her boyfriend Dru (Hainsley Lloyd Bennett) are heading to the luxurious fifth-storey apartment of Lex’s brother Leo (Julian Mack), a reclusive computer geek with a strong streak of misanthropy, to celebrate his birthday. As the couple ascends, floor by floor, we hear Leo reciting (in
Every horror fan knows that you have to follow the rules of the game if you want to survive, but the twisted “fun” in writer-director Mitzi Peirone’s stylized debut feature goes beyond the usual traps and twists. Instead, it’s a device to send the audience along with its leads into a fairy-tale dark trip. When
There was a time when giallo was the height of fashion. In the Sixties, Seventies and Eighties, Italian thrillers were the very model of genre chic, bringing a splash of style, panache and colour to the Hitchcockian whodunnit, and showing the aesthetic angle – the ‘good side’ – of sadism and murder. Then, as two
With Aislinn Clarke’s The Devil’s Doorway, Paul Hyett’s Heretiks and Corin Hardy’s The Nun all enjoying their premières in rapid succession, 2018 would appear to be the year that sees nunsploitation returning with a vengeance. Not that St Agatha, the latest from genre director Darren Lynn Bousman (Abattoir, Repo! The Genetic Opera, the first three Saw
François Simard, Anouk Whissell, and Yoann-Karl Whissell, better known as film collective RKSS describe themselves as a ‘family business.’ Anouk met Francois eighteen years ago at animation school and they have been together ever since and Yoann is Anouk’s brother. Their first feature film, Turbo Kid was released in 2015 and it showed at FrightFest
When you hear the word “fandom”, you tend to think of Marvel movies, Star Wars, Supernatural…anything that has accumulated a fanbase of passionate and dedicated viewers who have a very strong personal connection to their chosen passion. For whatever reason, you don’t tend to think of horror, but if there’s one thing that the genre
A boarding school is attacked by monsters in the first trailer for British horror comedy Slaughterhouse Rulez By Jonathan Hatfull 09-08-18 1,327 The first look at Crispian Mills’ boarding school horror comedy Slaughterhouse Rulez has finally arrived, with a brand new trailer and poster. The film stars Simon Pegg, Michael Sheen, Jo Hartley and
Vincenzo Natali casts three more for his In The Tall Grass movie By Jonathan Hatfull 08-08-18 12,867 It’s been far too long since we last had a new Vincenzo Natali movie and we’re very excited that the man behind Cube and Splice is taking on Stephen King and Joe Hill’s novella In The Tall Grass.
The trailer for Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich earns that red-band status By Jonathan Hatfull 03-08-18 6,520 The new trailer for Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich is here and good lord, it is working to get that red-band warning. It also looks like it could be a hell of a lot of fun, so give
Colin Minihan’s What Keeps You Alive opens with a low-angle, from-the-ground shot of treetops above, swaying in the wind – and with an anniversary. A year after they married, Jules (Brittany Allen) and diabetic Jackie (Hannah Emily Anderson) celebrate with a second honeymoon at the isolated lakeside house in Timber Bay that Jackie’s grandfather built
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