Tag: horror

There was a time when horror films would be most prominent around towards the end of the year, the darkening evenings encouraging scary stories told by the fireside,

It’s never easy raising a child as a single parent, but for Ruth, seven months pregnant and alone, it is a particularly unforgiving brand of hell, finding out

It is the duty of the police to investigate, calmly and rationally, to obtain evidence, to interview witnesses, to examine a situation fully and prosecute a case based

In all cinema there is much to be said for originality and atmosphere, yet in horror it is the latter which is the more important. Playing upon primal

It is safe to say that the films of Rob Zombie are an acquired taste, possibly safer than the films themselves which never give what is expected of

War drives technological advance. The easiest way to beat the enemy is to have bigger guns than they possess. The most conclusive victories are over those who have

There is an adage, that if you must steal, steal from the best, and the opening lines of writer/director Bryan Bertino’s The Monster, repeated in the closing moments,

The monster mash is nothing new; in fact, once it was quite the graveyard smash. Freddy vs Jason, Dracula vs Frankenstein, King Kong vs Godzilla, Mothra vs Godzilla,

If there were a checklist of low budget slasher movie clichés, there is little doubt that The Initiation would hit every box: nubile teenagers, often played by actors

Life is never so simple as black and white. It is complicated and conflicted and events are driven not by a single cause, the responses of those who