Tag Archives: British Horror

Shout Factory’s new 4k restoration of Hammer’s Dracula: Prince of Darkness looks markedly different from Studio Canal’s 2k restoration, from some years ago. Originally released in 1966, Terence Fisher’s sequel to his own groundbreaking Horror of Dracula (1958) was shot back to ...

Films, like music, belong to a certain time and place, and those that are immediately successful, as opposed to finding success gradually in aging like fine wine, tend to come out at the perfect time, when audiences are ready for ...

“Transylvania, land of dark forests, dread mountains and black unfathomable lakes. Still the home of magic and devilry as the nineteenth century draws to its close. Count Dracula, monarch of all vampires is dead. But his disciples live on to ...

After Fantastic Fest’s screening of The Boat (2018), there was a Q&A with the film’s writer, producer and lone actor, Joe Azzopardi. Joe’s dad, Winston Azzopardi, co-wrote, produced and directs the film and the two apparently didn’t always see eye to ...

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 ...