If you are stuck for something to watch this Christmas you won’t go far wrong with Václav Vorlícek’s delightful Three Wishes for Cinderella (Tři oříšky pro Popelku, 1973). The film has just been released in time for the holidays, in ...

Regardless of how you feel about the film, there is no denying The Vampire Lovers marked an important change in direction for Hammer; the film being one of the first to usher in a fresh, sexually charged era for the ...

After successfully closing out the fall season with author Maura McHugh’s class investigating codes and signs in David Lynch’s TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME (complete with complimentary doughnuts!), The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies – London returns to the ...

1981 was a cracking year for the slasher. The foundations started in forerunners Halloween (1978) and Friday the 13th (1980)— incidentally both films saw their first sequels issued in ‘81—started to catch light, resulting in an outpouring of sub genre ...

At the beginning of Kim Ki-young’s seminal The Housemaid (1960), the grim narrative that unfolds is foreshadowed by a simple conversation at the kitchen table between a husband and wife, while their two children play quietly in the background. One ...

One word that is often synonymous with “Gothic”, especially when it comes to the literary form of the tradition, is the “sublime”. Writers such as Ann Radcliffe established this concept early on, introducing readers to the idea of overwhelming, breath-taking ...

Resembling the lovechild of H.H. Holmes and a silent era siren, when it comes to dark music there is only one Jill Tracy. As a singer, pianist, and performer, she conjures a timeless netherworld that opens up the portals to ...

Writer, programmer, academic, Jack Sargeant has a solid history when it comes to covering all the weird and wonderful sharp corners of cult and underground film. His previous books include Deathtripping: The Extreme Underground, Naked Lens: Beat Cinema, and Cinema ...

Big Ronnie is not the Greasy Strangler. Or so he says. Either way, someone is, and someone is a bullshit artist. Big Ronnie might be smooth, but his son Big Brayden suspects his father is the Greasy Strangler. Brayden loves ...

  Truth speaks, and law Accursed be every tyrant and blessed every man who resists tyranny. Blessed be every man whom a tyrant destroys. Its conclusion provides its testament to the firebird: Brighter than the sun, More lovely than a ...