Features
Women Versus The Wicked
It’s a common misconception that women are only in horror films to scream. Not so – the genre has put women front and centre for decades, showing men a trick or two about conquering evil. […]
The Host
Features
The Rise of South Korean Horror Films
Something strange is happening in South Korea. While Hollywood is churning out dismal remakes and teen-friendly jump scare franchise films, South Korea, for the past decade or so, has been producing intelligent, highly-original and truly […]
Columns
LOOKING AT THE WORLD THROUGH ALIEN EYES
Ever since the early days of film, alien invasions have been explored by visionary directors. These aliens were often given stereotypical giant eye and ghoulish teeth, and were mainly used as a device to scare […]
Features
DOC’S BOTTOM TEN FILMS OF 2013
As I said in my top twenty of 2013 article, I consider 2013 a thoroughly poor and miserable year for cinema, at least going by the films I went to see – I just don’t […]
Drama
THE HOST: in cinemas now [short review]
IN CINEMAS NOW RUNNING TIME:125 mins REVIEWED BY: Dr Lenera, Official HCF Critic In the future, the human race has been assimilated by benevolent extraterrestrial psychic parasites called “Souls”. Human Melanie Stryder is captured […]