horror

  • Craven Imagery: Scream’s Legacy is Munch Ado About Requeling…

    When Tara Carpenter gets a menacing phone-call that may be coming from inside her home, it’s just the start of a series of events that echo the massacre in Woodsbro over two decades earlier – the events that inspired the movie ‘Stab’. Tara survives the attack by the ‘Ghost-Face/Scream’...
  • Turn of Le Sceau: Netflix’s horror-fest ‘Marianne’ exorcises its rites…

    Emma Larsimon (Victorie Du Bois,) is a seemingly petulant and self-absorbed writer of horror fiction; something of an aloof international celebrity with her ongoing saga that has her hero, Lizzie Larck,  facing off against an otherworldy witch named Marianne. In the books, her evil creation can apparently jump from...
  • The more ‘Things’ change: More Horror, Homage and Heart in Hawkins…

    Summers change everything and when Dustin (Gaten Matarazzo) returns from summer-camp, boasting of a new love, he’s somewhat disappointed to find that the romances between Eleven (Mille Bobby Brown) and Mike (Finn Wolfhard) and Max (Sadie Sink) and Lucas (Caleb McLoughlin) seem to be demanding much of their time...
  • Oh, the horror! Bloody Bananas split the difference?

    For those of a certain age, there are likely fond but likely incredibly surreal memories of an American television show called The Banana Splits (technically, ‘The Banana Splits Adventure Hour‘) which was originally broadcast between 1968 and 1971. Though hard to explain, it was essentially a mixture of live-action...
  • Bespoke and mirrors… ‘Us’ has more than face value…

    In 1986, young Adelaide strolls off from her parents while visiting a beachside funfair at Santa Cruz and finds herself entering a rundown funhouse, complete with a chamber of mirrors that don’t seem to be showing quite what they should.  When her parents finally find her, she refuses to...
  • Hallowed Grounding: #TimesUp for Michael Myers?

    Forty years ago, Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) was the only survivor of a horrific massacre as Michael Myers turned the holiday of Hallowe’en into a buzzword for bloody murder. Though her physical scars healed, the mental ones did not and she always believed that the almost supernaturally-empowered figure...
  • The Nun: Not with a bang but a wimple…

    The Conjuring franchise, the horror mythology loosely (sometimes very loosely) taking its cues from real people and events,  has had its ups and downs, including the main films, the Annabelle spin-off and now an origin story of sorts with The Nun. So far the franchise has been a mixture...
  • ‘Slenderman’ horror offers slim pickings…

    Wren (Joey King), Hallie (Julia Goldani Telles), Katie (Annalise Basso) and Chloe (Jaz Sinclair) decide to up the ante by exploring the internet phenomena known as ‘Slenderman’ but it’s a decision they quickly regret. When one of them goes missing, the others start to realise that whatever took her...
  • Waking the Dread: Hereditary’s family fears…

    Annie Graham (Toni Collette)  is an artist who lives with her husband Steve (Gabriel Byrne) and family in a luxurious multi-story house, an idyllic rural setting. Their lives are less comfortable emotionally – especially with the recent loss of Annie’s mother, the matriarchal Ellen who was known for her...
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