Tag: horror

Nothing is so reassuring as to the quality of a film as to rename it before releasing it in a new market in the hopes that any previous

Vampires. Immortal, seductive, destructive, the lonely hunters who walk the night. They have been reinvented time and again in the stories of each generation, from Polidori’s The Vampyre

“I don’t see the point of coming up to a lonely mountain cabin if you can’t sit around the fire telling scary horror stories,” says Chuck. “The only

There is much to be admired in a person of dedication and vision, who will strive, almost singlehandedly, to accomplish their chosen goal, and there is no doubt

Hauntings, so we are told, follow patterns, spirits repeating in death the routines of their former life. So it would seem with the inexplicably successful Paranormal Activity series

The film industry is constantly in change – the introduction of sound, then colour, cinemascope, 3D, digital, each of which has seen new innovators and pioneers. As with

Through the late sixties and early seventies, horror was a genre in transition. While Britain remained in the comparatively genteel but fading grasp of Hammer and its sibling

Genre has always been looked down upon by the establishment, science fiction a ghetto occupied by fanciful writers of whimsy, horror regarded as lower still, lurid and base,

The opening titles of John Water’s Cecil B Demented show a cinema entrance proudly announcing “Les Enfants dus Paradis, now dubbed into English.” While the habit of remaking

A bare blank stage in the basement of an old church marked only by a chalk circle drawn on the floor is the setting for this eerie production