On Valentine’s Day, 1945, the body of a man named Charles Walton, was discovered on the grounds of the farm where he worked on the edge of Meon Hill, Warwickshire. Walton’s demise had been a particularly gruesome one – he had been murdered with a pitchfork and bill-hook in a […]
Robyn Adams
Robyn Adams is an actress from Stockport, Greater Manchester, who spends a lot of her time watching horror films, feeding the pigeons in her garden, and being annoying on Twitter. She has previously written for Ghouls Magazine, hosted a panel talk on LGBTQ+ representation in horror in partnership with Forward Stockport and Grimmfest, and been a guest on numerous genre film podcasts. Her friends don't trust her to pick films on movie nights anymore.
A Quiet Place in the Country (1969) A Haunted House for the Sexual Counter-Culture Age
When the hustle and bustle of urban life gets too much, don’t you just want to head out to the countryside for a bit of peace and quiet? Leonardo – played by Italian screen icon and original Django, Franco Nero – certainly seems to feel that way; the constant noise […]
Children of the Wicker Man (Grimmfest 2024)
The Wicker Man (1973) needs no introduction. To many, myself included, Robin Hardy’s folk-horror classic is considered one of the greatest British horror films – heck, perhaps horror films in general – of all time. However, to two of the director’s sons, Justin and Dominic Hardy, The Wicker Man is […]
Girl Internet Show: A Kati Kelli Mixtape (2022) (Fantastic Fest 2024)
Do you ever wonder about how people will remember you after you’re gone? Girl Internet Show: A Kati Kelli Mixtape (2022), is a film which is hard to discuss via conventional means – largely because it’s not a conventional film. The act of reviewing this mixtape is more akin to […]
Satan War (1979) (Fantastic Fest 2024)
When The Exorcist was first released back in 1973, rumours began to spread that the movie itself bore supernatural, satanic properties; after all, how could somebody possibly make, or even want to make, a movie as sinister and shocking as that without calling upon the forces of darkness? In the […]
Hostile Dimensions (2023) Funny, light-hearted trek through the Multiverse (Review)
In an infinite multiverse, there is infinite potential for terror. The idea of parallel universes is nothing new, yet in the past couple of years, there has been a colossal boom in “multiverse movies”, and yet, in spite of films on this subject matter being released with frequency to the […]
Oddity (Fantasia 2024)(Review)
A horror movie doesn’t necessarily need to be “scary” to be successful, and even then what gets under peoples’ skin is highly subjective. Describing a horror movie as “scary” can nonetheless imply its success in several areas at being able to frighten audiences, such as having a well-developed atmosphere or […]
Ghost Game (Frightfest 2024) Review
For as long as there have been cameras, they’ve been used to “capture” ghosts. The invention of the daguerreotype in the 1800s brought with it the advent of “spirit photography” – an attempt to capture definitive photographic proof of the paranormal (or at least sell it as such), during the […]
Hell Hole (2024) There’s Something in the Dirt (Review)
Better known as “fracking”, the process of hydraulic fracturing is, if you’ll pardon the expression, a largely untapped well of horror potential. The controversial fossil-fuel mining technique (outlawed here in the UK since 2019), is infamous for causing environmental damage, pollution, sickness, and even earthquakes – making it a real-life […]
Cuckoo (Fantasia 2024) (Review)
Cuckoos are brood parasites that lay their eggs in the nests of other bird species and, once hatched, the chicks are raised by the unsuspecting host parents, who frequently reject their own eggs and young as a result. To Gretchen (Hunter Schafer), a teenage girl forced to move to the […]