The Japanese Film Festival in Australia, which is presented by The Japan Foundation, Sydney, always includes a few genre films for horror lovers. This year saw the 20th instalment of the event, which toured Australia from 14 October to 4 December 2016, ...

This year’s Monster Fest was full of incredibly well realized horror films, none more so than Raw, a French-Belgian horror/drama with a hint of comedy sprinkled throughout. Raw (or Grave, the original French title) is the third directorial credit for ...

Contemporary slasher films use elements of pastiche and parody in order to appeal to their target audience, playing on the history of the genre to form references and relations through the media. While these forms seem to have grown in ...

Horror-comedies can be a difficult mix to pull off successfully, balancing a sense of lightheartedness with any semblance of actual ‘horror’. Der Bunker, a debut German film from director Nikias Chryssos, manages this beautiful balance and forms something unsettling, at ...

Lake Nowhere is a resurrection of the VHS era in horror, from the video nasties to the ‘golden age’ of slasher films throughout the 80’s. Whilst clocking in at just under an hour, the film still manages to evoke memories ...