Horror Games, Impossible Architecture, and the Overlook Hotel
The horror genre is something of the red-headed stepchild in games: genre conventions from film and literature are near-intrinsically subverted by the mechanical conventions of games. Our agency in...
View ArticleComedy Horror: Done To Death?
The release of Adam Sandler’s ‘Hotel Transylvania’ and Tim Burton’s ‘Frankenweenie’ marks a new chapter in the history of comedy horror; time will tell whether these contemporary movies represent the...
View ArticleParanormal Activity 4 Review
What Saw has become for “’torture porn”, Paranormal Activity has become for found footage. Both made a mark because they put a unique twist on the horror film (the former has a serial killer who never...
View ArticleDinner Arty Conversation: Gothic Fiction
Ever feel like the only ignoramus in a roomful of culture aficionados? If you can’t be a buff, learn to bluff… GOTHIC FICTION Need To Know • Genre of literature combining horror and romance that...
View ArticleNot Quite Conjuring Up a Storm
You could be forgiven for thinking that Patrick Wilson enjoys being scared witless. After his turn in Insidious as a terrified father combating supernatural forces, and with that film’s sequel due out...
View ArticleThe Next Best Thing
Along with action blockbusters, the horror genre is probably the one which gets accused of stagnancy the most; the perception that films are only greenlit if they follow the money-making cinema trends...
View ArticleHalloween: Asian Horror Films
Scrap the popcorn and the all-American horror flicks, get ready to squirm to horror done the Asian way. Horror movies and I have always had a love-hate relationship. From a young age I loved thrillers...
View ArticleDirector’s Cut: Films You’re Dying to Watch….
It’s the scariest time of the year…no, not exam season, Halloween! Some of you will want to hide away beneath the covers, but for those of you bold enough or seeking the thrills of horror (and crazy...
View ArticleReview: Inside No. 9
Linked only by their claustrophobic settings – a railway sleeper carriage, a bedroom wardrobe in a game of sardines, a trendy tapas restaurant after closing – the episodes of Inside No. 9 are an...
View ArticleCan Alien: Covenant Succeed as Horror?
“In space, no-one can hear you scream” So goes the famous tagline to Ridley Scott’s 1979 sci-fi horror classic Alien. The combination of H.R. Giger’s grotesquely beautiful creature design and Scott’s...
View Article‘The Pitchfork Disney’– Dark and Memorable Madness
As a film-fanatic I’ve always regarded theatre as something of a weird uncle – the ‘acting’ with a big A never seemed as nuanced, typically inspiring in me an almost irrepressible urge to laugh as the...
View ArticleReady or Not: ‘One of the best horror films of 2019’
“It’s true what they say. Rich people really are different.” This is the message of Ready or Not, the second film directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett who’s previous credits include the...
View ArticleThe Man Who Could Cheat Death: ‘A campy exploration of immortality’
From Dracula (1958) to The Devil Rides Out (1968), in their 82 year history, Hammer Films Productions have produced some of the most iconic British horror films released in the 20th century. The Man...
View ArticleSlasher films: an unlikely love story
The majority of the people who know me are aware that I love Scream. As far as I’m concerned, it’s one of the best horror films ever made. It manages to tackle meta-humour, whilst still creating...
View Article‘Bloodborne’ and the art of adapting Lovecraft
Image description: the protagonist of ‘Bloodborne’ falls to their knees in witness of a Lovecraftian nightmare The question of video games as art is one that, as someone who somewhat stopped playing...
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