Film

No holiday would be complete without a seasonal slasher, or five. When it comes to the crème de la crème of this particular little subgenre I very much doubt anyone is going to disagree with me when I declare that ...

The original 1974 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is deservedly revered as not just a classic horror film or one of the great proto-slasher films, but as a testament to savage American art. From the opening text crawl and ominous voice ...

Cult Screenings and Dead Mouse productions have been at the forefront of horror documentary for a few years now, with their mammoth nine-hour love letter to the first two Hellraiser films Leviathan: The Story of Hellraiser and Hellbound: Hellraiser II ...

In the third and final part of my review of Kino Lorber’s enormous Fritz Lang: The Silent Films Blu-ray box set, I’m going to explore the last few films in the set, which also make up Lang’s final silent films ...

“Charming sex, you will be free: just as men do, you shall enjoy all the pleasures that Nature makes your duty, do not withold yourselves from one. Must the more divine half of mankind be kept in chains by the ...

Curse of the Werewolf begins with credits rolling over the silent, anguished eyes of Oliver Reed’s grey haired werewolf, closing with a single tear running down his cheek. It is a poignant and telling introduction to the bleakest film in ...

In the film’s pre-credits curtain raiser, Mongrel establishes its grimy and unnerving mood with a disorientating point-of-view shot accompanied by heavy breathing that is somehow part human and part bestial – and in turn, this becomes a perfect summary of ...

Folk horror is a genre of horror film originating in England during the late 1960’s and early 1970’s, which examines the outbreak of Witchcraft and Paganism in the British Countryside. Folk horror films are heavily reliant on the ambience of ...

Karl Atticus — Baltimore native, horror filmmaker, purveyor of the occult. Found dead in 1973 of apparent suicide. But was it actually Atticus? The body was headless and extensive decomposition prevented fingerprint analysis. The major determining factor which led investigators ...

As its title implies, Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water is an enigmatic film. It’s not a horror movie, though it has elements of the horrific. There are scenes of intense drama, but there are also bits that are ...