Category: Film

Congratulations are due to Stephanie Meyer.  Global domination is at her feet.  Not only the creator of the Twilight novel series that made “dark fantasy” a literary genre,

There is something about a period setting that makes a ghost story more effective.  In modern times, science has pushed back the boundaries of the unknown, consigning mysticism

Tarsem Singh is not a well known name, yet the chances are you have seen his work, through either the video he directed for REM’s Losing My Religion

The first twenty five years of your life are free.  Beyond that, you have one year, and every day you must earn more time to keep the clock

In just about every interview or article I’ve read in the run up to the release of the Tintin movie, there has been a mention of Herge’s statement

A surprise trip organised for a birthday party turns to horror as the rising tide cuts off escape from the the town of Amen in this low budget horror.

Hallowe’en is the time to revel in the scary stories of our childhood, and this year Guillermo del Toro is no different, producing a remake of a 1973

The reconfigured contents of two hard drives recovered from the wilds of Western Norway, a year spent investigating.  The conclusion: the contents are real. Well of course they

There is oft the cry when watching a truly bad movie – how did this get made? The modern corollary, when viewing a film that has finally made

The latest piece of cinematic driftwood arriving on multiplex screens is Fright Night, originally a hit in the summer of 1985, when it starred William Ragsdale as teenager