Tag Archives: British Horror

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 ...

Believe the hype – gripping, thrilling, and brilliant. Ghost Stories is perhaps one of the most noted plays of the last decade. Premiering in 2010, the brainchild of Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman, the play gained notoriety for both distressing ...

Essentially unknown aside more popular British studios that had an emphasis on genre films, like Hammer, Amicus, or Tigon, Anglo-Amalgamated ran only for a few decades, from 1945 until the early ‘70s, but should forever be remembered for their unforgettable ...

In feminist theory, there are two distinct outcomes that stems from the pressures of domesticity. As Susan Fraiman notes in her work Extreme Domesticity: A View from the Margins, literary characters are driven to various extremes by too much house, ...

Throughout the years, horror films have strived to take advantage of the fears, both rational and irrational, that plague humankind. Whether it be eight-legged, fang-brandishing, giant alien arachnids, murderous clowns, or simply being plunged into darkness, genre masters from Carpenter ...

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 ...

Download MP3 With this episode, Kat and Samm begin a new four-part series inspired by Cathal Tohill and Pete Tombs’ seminal film book, Immoral Tales: European Sex & Horror Movies 1956-1984. Here they explore a few key films from Jose ...

As horror indie Don’t Knock Twice (2017) seems to prove, sometimes it just takes an unstoppably evil hag to help strengthen the bond between an estranged (and equally troubled) mother and daughter. Director Caradog James (The Machine, 2014) and screenwriters ...

Regardless of how you feel about the film, there is no denying The Vampire Lovers marked an important change in direction for Hammer; the film being one of the first to usher in a fresh, sexually charged era for the ...

British werewolf films during the sixties came in a trio, two of them being fun anthology outings and one being the sole lycanthropic venture from the world renowned Hammer Studios – the magnificent The Curse of the Werewolf (1961). Opening ...