The last day of the first-ever digital FrightFest is upon us. I spend my morning catching the last of the Short Film Showcases, also included. They’ve been a decent bunch, with the highlight being Jeff […]
Day four, and I wake with fond memories of Dark Place – the first to really wow me this year. Still, I’m optimistic about today. Clapboard Jungle looks fascinating, Hall looks menacing, and Two Heads […]
Day three, and I’m looking forward to an afternoon and evening in the living room with the television and my Roku stick. It looks like FrightFesters are in high spirits following the duo of 12 […]
Hall is a small-scale film about a virus, and how it infects the guests at a hotel. The story follows Japanese runaway wife Naomi, who we meet crawling her way through a corridor of people […]
USA IN CINEMAS NOW RUNNING TIME: 150 mins REVIEWED BY: Dr Lenera A CIA agent awakes from a botched operation and is recruited into a secret organisation, given only the word “tenet” and a […]
USA AVAILABLE ON DVD AND AMAZON PRIME: NOW, from DAZZLER MEDIA RUNNING TIME: 81 mins REVIEWED BY: Dr Lenera Sisters Juliet, Lisa, and Wendy and their parents Thomas and Bernice are moving into a […]
Every year, FrightFest gives us some great documentaries on top of the latest slashers, stalkers and monster movies. This year, one of them is The Horror Crowd: an affectionate documentary that gives an intimate glimpse […]
Horror movies have always been topical and used the genre to address real-world anxieties. Still, I can’t think of any that have been this darn topical. Host is a movie made in lockdown for people […]
In these unsettling times, new films are seemingly few and far between, with countless indefinite delays unless made for VOD. Cinemas have re-opened here in the UK, albeit tentatively, which means films can be once […]
HOST Directed by Rob Savage By now you’re probably sick of reviewers looking at every new release through the lens of Covid. Hell, I know I’ve done it when covering The Platform or The Wolf […]
INHERITANCE (2020) Directed by Vaughn Stein After her father’s death, district attorney Lauren Monroe is dismayed to be left peanuts in comparison to her brother, William, who’s running for senator. Knowing she was never the […]
CODE 404 – Series 1 (2020) A Sky Original DI John Major is gunned down during an investigation titled Operation Bluefinch, leaving behind his wife, Kelly, and best friend and policing partner, DI Roy Carver. […]
PAYBACK (2020) Directed by Jesse V. Johnson Having thought each other had died during their last job, partners in crime, Sue and French, decide to do one final job for their boss Tommy – a […]
THE LAST OF US PART 2 In my eight years of writing for HorrorCultFilms, this is the first time I’ve ever covered a videogame. I’ve done numerous film features, written about art displays, theatre productions […]
AFTER MIDNIGHT Directed by Jeremy Gardner, Christian Stella Horror is like a house, with different rooms for different subgenres. The supernatural and slasher rooms are perhaps the biggest, though the zombie conservatory has seemed to […]
HUMAN ZOO Directed by John E Seymore Of the many experiments in horror films, including the time a demented surgeon fashioned a chain of people mouth to anus, the one in Human Zoo is possibly […]
The Droving Directed by George Popov Almost 20 years ago, I remember watching a now mostly forgotten Scottish flick called The Last Great Wilderness: my first ever folk horror. And though bits and pieces of […]
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