When did we start to confuse jump scares, the equivalent of someone pouncing at you and yelling boo, with real horror? When did we segue from true bone chilling, ‘stuff that haunts you for years’ horror to these bland homogenised horror-by-numbers productions? When did horror stop being the boundary crossing, censor-baiting, unexpected risk-taking genre […]
Lets face it, there’s really only one shark movie, and we all know it. All the ‘Deep Blue Sea’s in the world will never erase our knowledge of the fact that Jaws remains undefeated in its title of THE shark movie – and I cant imagine any film ever toppling that masterpiece from […]
I guess it’s some sort of skill to consistently produce/write/direct ‘horror’ films that actually aren’t scary. This is the dubious title I am unceremoniously awarding James Wan, who once again presents us with a film featuring an impeccable cast, impressive visuals and is of sumptuous high quality, but that is completely devoid of scares. […]
A few months ago I wrote an article on the top ten best feminist horrors, and though I stand by those choices, had I seen Hush before I wrote that article, it would have been in the top three. Hell it may have even managed the top spot. Hush is the story of a deaf/mute […]
It seems to me as if horror has taken a more mannered turn of late – it wants to be taken more seriously, be accepted by the latte crowd, get a wide release and maybe even an art house release. This new direction does not work for me. I think ‘It Follows’ was a […]
The Paranormal Activity franchise has been an undeniably successful one. Successful financially, successful in scaring us and successful in its manipulation of the horror landscape so that found footage films are such the norm now as to be almost ho hum. It didn’t create the found footage genre (that honor will go to The […]
I was really looking forward to this film. After all, cannibals have always been one of those antagonists in film that have always given me the chills, and Eli Roth has a solid horror pedigree what with Hostel, Cabin Fever and Grindhouse in his movie-making history, inspired by classics such as ‘Cannibal Holocaust’ – this […]
Some genres just don’t appeal to me, in horror, it’s the horror/comedy sub genre; mainly because, in my opinion, so many of them don’t get it right. There are of course, notable successes and they are among some of my favorite horrors – Shaun of the Dead, Scream, Severance and Rec 3 would […]
There are films, that as a horror enthusiast and connoisseur, I feel I must watch in order to call myself a true horror film lover. Most of those films I have seen and enjoyed – Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Exorcist, Last house on the Left, Psycho, I spit on your grave, Evil Dead and […]
I somehow missed this movie when it first came out.. I’d heard whisperings about a kind of horror ‘Fame’ – young Hollywood starlet who’ll do anything to make it in the big time, but then I forgot all about it until recently mentioned in a ‘best horrors of 2014’ list. This is a slow burn, […]
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