The Child (The Babadook, 2014) The Teenager (Hereditary, 2018) Adulthood (Psycho, 1960) The horror scholar and critic Robin Wood once wrote that the source of all horror is family. There is plenty of evidence for this, from the attempted ‘child’ of Victor Frankenstein to the family in The Texas Chainsaw […]
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Horror Channel honours classic cinema with THE VINTAGE VAULT
May brings THE VINTAGE VAULT, a journey in genre cinema history from Horror Channel. Every Sunday night will feature a double-bill of classic sci-fi and horror films to provide chills and lessons in equal measure. We begin on Sunday May 1st with the screen debut of Claude Rains in THE […]
Horror Channel announces May 2022 TV slate!
Horror Channel brings you, lucky people, an array of Saturday night UK TV premieres in the month of May. These prime-time slots feature the award-winning dark comedic monster movie BOOK OF MONSTERS by Stewart Sparke, as well as Audrey Cummings’s grisly chortler SHE NEVER DIED, starring Olunike Adeliyi. May also […]
Mums + Sons: An Examination of the Child/Parent Relationship
New horror analysis pocketbook by Rebecca McCallum available from 15 April A fresh, intellectual perspective on mother-son relationships in three essential horror films comes from author Rebecca McCallum in her pocketbook Mums + Sons: An Examination of the Child/Parent Relationship. McCallum’s analysis offers a detailed, insightful and critical examination of […]
Horror Channel celebrates Sci-Fi B-Movies with a second Classic Sci-Fi Weekend in April
It’s back to terrify once more! Horror Channel once again celebrates the Sci-fi B-movie world of strange creatures, alien invaders and weird science with CLASSIC SCI-FI WEEKEND 2, a follow-up TV special to the popular Classic Sci-fi weekend broadcast in April 2020. The fifties are acknowledged as the Golden Age […]
Glasgow Frightfest 2022 – A Film Festival in Review
Glasgow FrightFest 2020 was one of the last film festivals to take place in BC (Before COVID), and the subsequent two years saw film festivals along with so much more turn online. In March 2022, FrightFest Glasgow returned with a vengeance, screening 12 films over three days at the beautiful […]
Homebound (2021) Claustrophobic Debut Horror (Glasgow Fright Fest Review)
During a horror movie, it is common practice for the audience to urge a character to run away. Our level of engagement may well be influenced by how characters respond to threatening situations. Respond sensibly and we’re on board; respond stupidly, as is all too often the case, and we […]
Mandrake (2022) Unbalanced yet promising Irish Folk Horror (Glasgow Fright Fest Review)
Horror is a genre with many conventions, and adherence or non-adherence to these conventions are what can make or break a horror film. Slow and suggestive can be more effective than fast and furious; commitment to a straightforward premise may work better than a set of convoluted and unnecessary elements. […]
UPDATED Glasgow FrightFest 2022 Programme
Following certain world events, FrightFest has changed its line-up slightly. Here is the revised line-up, offering even more ghoulish delights! THURS 10 MARCH – GFT Screen 1 21:00 NIGHT’S END (UK Premiere) Director: Jennifer Reeder. Cast: Geno Walker, Kate Arrington, Felonious Munk, Michael Shannon. USA 2022, 81 mins, 18. WORLD PREMIERE FrightFest favourite […]
Signature Brings the Horror to Glasgow Film Festival!
Dark and intense Scottish thriller A Banquet plays on 5/6th March at the GFT for the Glasgow Film Festival, before going to cinemas and digital platforms on 11th March. Review coming soon Cert 15, 97mins Synopsis: A Banquet is an unsettling, thought-provoking and hyper-tense psychological thriller from director Ruth Paxton. The film stars Sienna Guillory (Resident Evil franchise, Luther), Jessica […]