Strange things are happening in Jerusalem’s Lot – the residents are turning into vampires! Salem’s Lot (1979) is a two-part miniseries based on the 1975 Stephen King novel of the same name, following author Ben Mears (David Soul), who returns to his hometown to write about the mysterious Marsten House, […]
Jessica McKeown
Dead Bloom (Panic Fest 2026)
Eco-horror has never felt so timely as a genre. From the rise of AI threatening clean water, to water companies pumping sewage into seas and rivers, there are constant headlines of man-made threats to our environment. At the heart of it is corporate greed and indifference, no matter how much […]
Dead Media (Panic Fest 2026)
The age of streaming is the age of convenience. Everything you fancy watching is available at the press of a button, all wrapped up in a much more affordable price than buying or renting individual films. But with the rise of streaming, we audiences have lost something beautiful – bonus […]
The Birthday (2004) More Lost Oddity than Cult Classic for Feldman’s Formerly Lost Movie
Recently restored, The Birthday is a quirky little film. Taking place in a hotel that could rival the Overlook as far as bad visits go, this Corey Feldman film begins as a surrealist comedy that follows Norman Forrester, a painfully awkward man who is attending his posh girlfriend’s father’s birthday and […]
Hamnet (2025): A Quietly Devastating Portrait of Grief
On August 11, 1596, a small coffin was laid to rest in Holy Trinity Church in Stratford-Upon-Avon. Famine and bubonic plague were sweeping through Warwickshire and though the cause of death was not listed on the burial register, it has been widely theorised that the eleven-year-old Hamnet was one of […]
Blood Shine (2025): a hauntingly beautiful dive into belief (Sohome Horror 2025)
Close your eyes and picture a cult for me. Strange request, I know. You may be thinking about real-life cults from the Manson Family and the People’s Temple (of Jonestown massacre infamy) to Scientology. Or perhaps your perception of cults has been shaped by pagan cults with strange and sinister […]