George A. Romero’s iconic horror film Night of the Living Dead (1968) has to this day had an enormous influence on cinema and it defined the modern zombie film. Its influence, however, goes wider than just cinema – now fifty-one ...

Stephen Volk’s name is well established among horror fans. His writing is iconic: from the screenplay for Ken Russell’s Gothic (1986) to Ghostwatch (1992) – the mockumentary that traumatised England – to the acclaimed ghost story, The Awakening (2011). This ...

Cam, directed by Daniel Goldhaber and written by Isa Mazzei, is a psychological thriller/horror film starring Madeline Brewer as an ambitious cam girl called Alice whose camming account is hacked and her identity stolen by a mysterious doppelgänger. The film’s ...

We’re deep in the autumn festival season right now and the horror genre seems to be rightfully receiving a lot of buzz out of these events. That’s exactly what we like to see here at Diabolique. And this October, there ...

Ghost stories seem to be an undying trend in cinema. Like spirits haunting the living, so too do ghost stories continue to haunt audiences. This year’s The Witch in the Window is a ghost story from Andy Mitton, a director ...

Things often come in circles. Several decades after Witchfinder General and The Wicker Man, it seems that horror filmmakers are returning to curious, quiet villages somewhere in England to once again tell strange and macabre stories. The locals are suspicious ...

Every May, the ExCel in London becomes home to MCM Comic Con. For 2018, this geek-out weekend took place 25-27 May, and gathered thousands of fans dedicated to film, comics and superheroes. It’s like a big Halloween party in Spring, ...

If you go to Crythin Gifford on the north east coast of England, walk through the marshes, (never mind the fog and unfriendly silence), you will reach Eel Marsh House; an old gothic mansion standing alone and abandoned. Its last ...

We love horror and we love getting scared. We read scary books, watch horror films and devour gruesome TV series. Occasionally, however, horror comes to life on stage, to terrify us in a different way, when darkness falls in an ...

Known today as a master of the macabre, Edgar Allan Poe was a remarkable writer whose gruesome poems and stories have fascinated and haunted readers for over 160 years. Annabel Lee, The Oval Portrait, Berenice, The Fall of the House ...