Paul Tremblay’s A Head Full Of Ghosts is one of the best horror novels in recent memory so we’re very excited that a film adaptation is in the works. The choice of writer and director also seems fitting, as February (aka The Blackcoat’s Daughter) and I Am The Pretty Thing That Lives In The House‘s
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The sins of the past rise up with a vengeance in Black Creek, an indie supernatural horror from prolific British writer-director James Crow. When a group of teenagers heads to a cabin in the woods to scatter the ashes of Mike’s (Chris O’Flyng) father, they stumble across a furious Native American spirit that’s on a
Roxanne Benjamin has directed segments of ace anthology horrors Southbound and XX, and she’s about to make her feature directorial debut with the splendidly-named Body At Brighton Rock. Variety reports that the film is currently in production and that it’s just been picked up for worldwide distribution by Magnet. Benjamin also wrote the film, which
We’re huge fans of indie film figurehead and horror movie stamp-of-quality Larry Fessenden, so it’s very exciting to hear that the director of Wendigo, Habit and The Last Winter is stepping behind the camera again. Indiewire reports that Fessenden is set to write and direct Depraved, which is described as “a contemporary reimagining of Mary
The first trailer has arrived for Unsane, the upcoming horror movie from Steven Soderbergh starring the excellent Claire Foy and Juno Temple. Give it a look… The film was reportedly shot on an iPhone, much like Sean Baker’s Tangerine, and features an impressive cast including Jay Pharaoh, Joshua Leonard, Aimee Mullins and Amy Irving.
Like many a slasher, Psychotic! opens with an extended POV shot, as the killer first ogles Shannon (Rachel Laforest) through her window, and then enters the apartment with knife raised. Yet the would-be assailant is interrupted by the arrival of party guests, and reduced to hiding (like a final girl) under the bed and sharing
When Logan Wallace’s father passes away in a tragic accident, his mother drags him to her sister’s isolated mountain home in the hopes that it will help them grieve. There’s just one catch, the lavish accommodation is on the market and the pair would have to vacate the premises every so often while strangers have
The best decision the first Insidious movie made, back in 2010, was casting Lin Shaye as maverick demon-hunter Elise Rainier. The worst decision? Killing her off at the end of the film. Because as the franchise has gone on, it’s only become clearer than Shaye – already a horror icon thanks to appearances in countless
While the London-based FrightFest events in August and over Halloween seem to change venues every year or so, the Glasgow chapter is a more fixed affair. For it is always timed for the end of that city’s annual Film Festival, and always takes place on a single screen (Glasgow Film Theatre 1), ensuring that those
Blumhouse looks set to continue its efforts to dominate the horror genre, as it’s been announced that the production company has set up a deal with Hulu. Variety reports that the two companies will be working on a 12-episode monthly horror anthology series, with a new chapter arriving each month starting in October. Halloween, you
The Turning, a “loose adaptation” of the Henry James 1898 classic The Turn Of The Screw, already has a damn impressive cast with Mackenzie Davis (Halt & Catch Fire, Blade Runner 2049) and Finn Wolfhard (Stranger Things, IT). Now, the main cast has been rounded out in a most excellent way. Deadline reports that The
We’re less than a month away from the Spierig brothers’ horror Winchester hitting cinemas, with Helen Mirren starring as the infamous mystery house builder/rifle heiress Sarah Winchester, and a new trailer has arrived. It also seems to have sensibly lopped off the clunky subheading “The House That Ghosts Built”. Winchester also stars the most
We have three copies of FrightFest favourite Our Evil to give away!
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Brazilian horror Our Evil was one of the standouts at this year’s Horror Channel FrightFest, and we have three copies of the twisty, twisted blend of serial killer chills and occult strangeness to give away
Our Evil (Mal Nosso), the feature debut of writer/director/producer/editor Samuel Galli, is a film of two halves. In the first, hulking, bald, middle-aged Arthur (Ademir Esteves) wakes at 2.32am, searches the dark web, skimming over items like ‘credit card cloning’ ‘cannibalism’ and ‘necro’ to open a section on ‘assassination (South America)’, where he watches an online
Henry James’ The Turn Of The Screw is one of the greatest ghost stories (or is it?) of all time, and was most famously adapted for the big screen in 1961 with Jack Clayton’s The Innocents. Now, the tale is getting another twist, as Variety reports a new film called The Turning is on the
In a month packed with films featuring massive spectacle and enormous budgets, you should treat yourself to something a little different, something that’s going to get under your skin. The Unseen, written and directed by Gary Sinyor, is a British chiller about a grieving couple (played by Jasmine Hyde and Richard Flood) who are struggling
The long, long-in development Pet Sematary remake has taken another step out of the sour ground towards the cinema. THR reports that the new take on Stephen King’s chilling novel about a father who discovers the blessing and curse (mostly curse) of being able to bring the dead back to life has been set for release
If you’re watching Ana Asensio’s Most Beautiful Island in a crowded cinema, there will come a point when you’ll be able to feel the tension in the room. There’s a question that the first-time director will make you ask before withholding the answer, and as the minutes tick by, the sense of not knowing, of
When Ryan Murphy announced that American Horror Story’s seventh season was set to revolve around the 2016 US Election, viewers were rather skeptical as to whether it would work. While considered a genuine nightmare for some (and perhaps, even more frighteningly, a divine moment for others), Donald Trump’s win over Hillary Clinton certainly didn’t seem
A new trailer has arrived for upcoming Canadian monster comedy Another Wolfcop, which sees Officer Lou Garou back for more gore, boozing and ice hockey. “Alcoholic werewolf cop Lou Garou springs into action when an eccentric businessman with evil intentions seduces Woodhaven’s residents with a new brewery and hockey team in this outrageous horror-comedy sequel.”
Now that we’ve had IT: Part One, the big question is: who’ll be playing the grown-up versions of the Losers’ Club in the sequel? Jessica Chastain is one of the biggest “no-brainers” when it comes to our wishlist. She’s awesome, she’s worked with the Muschiettis before on Mama, and she’s got red hair (admittedly, the last
If characters in a horror movie are watching an old black and white movie on TV late at night, and it’s not Night Of The Living Dead, it’s almost certainly Carnival Of Souls. So even if you’ve never seen it before, you might have seen bits of it. You’ll definitely recognise some of the imagery,
Andy Nyman and Jeremy Dyson’s stage hit Ghost Stories is coming to the big screen, and early word from its premiere at LFF is that it’s absolutely terrifying (check out our review here). That’s definitely backed up these three intriguing first teasers, each of which focuses on a different character and case. There are also
“I am what is commonly known as a serial killer. I don’t love that nomenclature. I sort of consider myself a murderer, but my numbers are such that I’m classified as a serial killer… I’ve killed 39 people.” So says Aaron (Mark Duplass) within minutes of meeting Sara (Desiree Akhavian), hired to film a documentary
Ten years after the death of the notorious trap-setting Jigsaw killer (Tobin Bell), the games have begun again. Mutilated corpses are turning up with jigsaw-shaped pieces cut out of their skin and tape recordings of John Kramer’s voice embedded in their flesh. Could Jigsaw be back from the grave? It’s only been seven years since
What makes an iconic horror villain? It’s not just about having a killer costume, or a distinctive murder weapon. To create a seriously scary, enduring baddie, you need a motive, a personality – and an actor who’s willing to fully inhabit that character, even if it means going to some dark places. Saw’s Jigsaw definitely
Tree (Jessica Rothe) didn’t have a great birthday. First she woke up hungover in a stranger’s dorm room, then she was late to school, and then her sorority sister ruined her outfit by spilling a drink all over her. Just to put the cherry on the crappy cake, she got stabbed to death on her
Last weekend saw Nottingham’s Broadway Cinema play host to Mayhem Film Festival, and we headed into screen one for four days full of horror, sci-fi and cult movies from around the world. It was our first time at Mayhem, and it definitely won’t be the last. With an excellent and eclectic selection of features and
We didn’t expect a chilly thriller from the director of Let The Right One In and Tinker Tailor, Soldier Spy and producer Martin Scorsese with a cast this strong to be quite so bad, but there can be no question that something has gone terribly wrong with Tomas Alfredson’s adaptation of Jo Nesbø’s bestseller The Snowman. With the exception
At the beginning of Ghost Stories, Phillip Goodman (Andy Nyman) is monitoring a live video feed of a celebrity psychic performing onstage. This illustrates how watching and listening closely can reveal the explicable reality behind the apparently supernatural – but it also slyly reveals the transition of Ghost Stories itself from 2010 play to film.