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 ...

TL Wiswell is the brains behind the London Lovecraft Festival. In 2016 her gender-switched interpretation of H.P. Lovecraft’s Mountains of Madness was a sell-out success at 2016’s London Horror Festival. In February 2018 Wiswell put together a programme of shows ...

There’s something of a retro Golden Age of Brit horror kick to Iain Ross-McNamee’s second picture as director, Crucible of the Vampire. It’s not so much the flamboyant Gothic of Hammer’s period monster romps, but it’s more redolent of the ...

Tom Worsley of Bête Noire Productions discusses bringing horror to a live audience with Father of Lies, a real-life horror drama. For seven spine-tingling years the London Horror Festival has presented some of the very best comedy, cabaret and drama on ...

Those early adult holidays, you know the ones you take when you have settled into the job, got some cash to spare and found your partner, the carefree ones you take before the kids come along, where you and a ...

The Devil’s Well is yet another entry in the paranormal investigator found footage canon. This time we follow husband and wife team Bryan (Bryan Manley Davis) and Karla Marks (Anne-Marie Mueschke) as they head to the town of Woodsfield, Connecticut ...