December 1972, a low budget British horror film opens in London. Shunning the comfortable supernatural Gothic of Hammer, Death Line goes for something primal, something far more visceral than the cosy Brit horror movies had gone before. Conjuring fear from ...

Dark Circus (2016) Berlin-based filmmaker Julia Ostertag’s urban fantasy, Dark Circus (2016) has been described as both ‘a sensual journey into the depths of the unconscious’ and  ‘Kenneth Anger takes Alice to Fetish Wonderland’. Finally, after three years touring film ...

If I am being completely honest I can’t say whether it was the star name of Coral Browne or the fact that the play’s title had the word fucking, albeit with three asterisks replacing the u, c and k, in ...

In February 2019 I received an invitation to a film screening and director Q and A session at Islington’s Everyman Screen on the Green cinema. There’s nothing particularly unusual in that for horror film blogger you might think, however the ...

Photo credit: Mark Senior. It was early January when I received the invitation. Did I fancy taking a trip into a sub Arctic central London to sit under a dank railway arch beneath Waterloo Station, while the trains packed with ...

Back in February 2011, Danny Boyle’s production of Nick Dear’s drama Frankenstein at the National Theatre was one of the hottest tickets on the London stage. While there’s no doubt that the involvement of the 28 Days Later and Slumdog ...

Prano Bailey-Bond is an award-winning British filmmaker and writer who according to her online biography, ‘grew up on a diet of Twin Peaks in the depths of a strange Welsh community’. She cut her filmmaking teeth directing music videos for ...

At the very height of the carnage of world War Two, some lads were out illicitly searching for birds eggs to eek out their meagre wartime diet on a private estate in the English Midlands. What they found when investigating ...

Having broken into direction with the Y is for Youth segment of ABCs of Death (2014) followed by the sci-fi horror short Thorn (2015), Vampire Clay marks the feature-length debut of Soichi Umezawa as both a writer and director. Prior to ...

Friedrich Wilheim Murnau’s Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (Nosferatu, a Symphony of Horror) is widely acknowledged not just as a classic of German Expressionist cinema but also as the silver screen’s first interpretation of Bram Stoker’s genre-defining vampire classic Dracula ...