Interviews

Since its inception 17 years ago, FrightFest has established itself as the unholy Mecca of genre film festivals in the UK. Every year bloodthirsty fright fanatics from the UK and beyond arrive in their hordes to be dazzled, disturbed, shocked ...

Kristina Klebe (Tales of Halloween, 2015) sat down with Diabolique to talk about Mike Mendez’s (Big Ass Spider!, 2013) new horror/thriller Don’t Kill It (2016)—now available streaming and on VOD. Klebe plays Evelyn Pierce, an FBI agent with an angelic background, ...

The Chamber (2016) is a taut, often bleak horror-cum-thriller set in the claustrophobic environment of a mini-submersible. Tensions run high both inside and out, with the conflicting politics of an ambiguous mission clashing with the need to survive, all set ...

“The type of picture that brought about censorship.” Review of Mad Love, Motion Picture Herald, 1935 “Quite the most unpleasant picture I have ever seen […] it exploited cruelty for cruelty’s sake.” Review of The Raven, London Daily Telegraph, 1935. ...

Before she became director of the Stranger With My Face International Film Festival, Tasmanian writer and filmmaker Briony Kidd directed a short film in 2010—The Room at the Top of the Stairs—which has recently become available on the genre streaming ...

Damning issues are presented in Love (2015), Gaspar Noé’s latest film. As the writer-director has stated, though, this is life. And life is life: cheating, lying, self-destruction, vicious fights, and habitual drug use are so common in relationships he has observed—particularly ...

The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies London are all set to put on another amazing talk this week (Thursday 16th February, 2017), this time hosted by Asian genre expert Jasper Sharp. Sharp’s talk Lost Treasures of Japanese Genre Filmmaking promises to provide ...

We are very proud to announce the first set of students have been selected to attend the full Spring 2017 semester at Miskatonic Insitute of Horror Studies in London as part of the Diabolique Scholarship. The lucky candidates are as ...

Darren Lynn Bousman has built a stellar career within the dark world of horror film musicals (Repo: The Genetic Opera! (2008) and The Devil’s Carnival (2012)). He also directed the remake Mother’s Day (2010); the short film The Night Billy Raised Hell, as a part of ...

Not many people have heard of the death rock band Kettle Cadaver, but it is a name you won’t ever forget if you have. Rock stars are no strangers to controversial antics which go against the grain of social norms, ...