A shorter day today – not least because I can’t mention one of the films until later in the year (I emphasise that this is not a comment on its quality, but something that often […]
It’s day four! A decent festival so far, with the latest and greatest genre offerings. And this one was looking really stacked. As such, please note that there are some movies I simply didn’t have […]
Day three, so you know the drill. Here’s a rundown of the things I watched at FrightFest. Another decent day, and it was particularly thrilling to be in the audience for Dario Argento – even […]
Day 2 of FrightFest, and what a collection it looks like. We got some road movies, a Giallo, a pandemic horror, and a French language remake of a modern classic. So let’s stop wasting time […]
Including Glasgow events and digital ones, this year marks my fifteenth time at FrightFest: the dark heart of cinema – and around the ninth or tenth I’ve covered for this site. Celebrating its 23rd edition […]
The 1980s were a very dangerous time – for the younger generation onscreen. Any teen or twenty-something movie character in the slasher genre of the era was pretty much guaranteed to get the chop. 1989 […]
He’s played everything from an indestructible cyborg from the future in The Terminator movies, to a Russian cop in Red Heat, by way of powerful barbarian in RED SONJA – the unmistakable, cinematic force that […]
OK, so the actor Anthony Perkins is best known for his legendary role as Norman Bates in Hitchcock’s Psycho and its sequels… but that part is not the sum total of this superb actor’s career. […]
From The Dirty Dozen to John Wick, via Enzo G. Castellari’s Inglorious Bastards, the man, or men, on a perilous mission movie is a staple of action thriller cinema, wherein our heroes embark on a […]
When you’re on holiday, you’ll more than likely hit the beach and go for a swim in the sea and maybe even take a boat ride. However, cinema likes to take these pleasant memories and […]
Is it our imagination, or is the erotic thriller genre making a comeback? In the 1990s, you couldn’t move for erotic thrillers – sleekly shot stories of lust, infidelity and murder, with plenty of intrigue […]
When writing Dracula, I bet Bram Stoker could never have imagined how much the public would embrace the idea of vampires as part of supernatural fiction. Hundreds of films have been made about the centuries-old […]
Do you spend ages browsing through the list of movies on streaming platform Netflix looking for something scary to watch? Well, now you don’t have to. I’ve put together a selection of the best horror […]
Gothic legends… haunted houses… ancient curses… vampires and serial killers… welcome to the spine-tingling world of Italian director Mario Bava. In a career spanning four decades Mario Bava inspired multiple generations of filmmakers, from Dario […]
It’s that time of year again for reflection. For most of 2021, I thought it’d been a pretty lousy year for horror and cult films – the good ones seemed to trickle out, and there […]
So as the new film is finally upon us, I decided to repost this article of mine from two and a half years ago with a few minor changes. The Matrix trilogy is strange in […]
During the 1970s the Shaw Brothers Studio in Hong Kong produced some of the most iconic action films ever made, revolutionising the genre through the backbreaking work of top-shelf talent. The new Limited Edition Blu-ray […]
In the 1970s and 1980s, shopping malls were popping up all over America, and it was only a matter of time before they became a favoured setting for horror films – where better to plunge […]
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