When I was very young I used to experience nightmares where I felt as though I had “woken up” in my bed, but was still at the mercy of whatever dreamt-up horrors might lurk beyond the wall of sleep. Given how young I was at the time, as well as […]
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.
Outside the Blue Box: Dream Demon (1988)
My original plans to cover Dream Demon (1988) for “Outside the Blue Box” were made in the hope that it would coincide nicely with The War Between the Land and the Sea, which – at the time – was the only piece of Whoniverse media with a confirmed release date […]
Special Effects (1984) New York sleaze with a Stern Gaze on Hollywood Power
Manhattan-born genre auteur Larry Cohen, best known for his slimy, effects-laden creature-features, is the brain behind such cult favourites as It’s Alive (1974), Q: The Winged Serpent (1982), and most famously, The Stuff (1985) – all of which have goopy gore and rubber monsters aplenty. When the late, great director […]
The Restoration at Grayson Manor (Glasgow Frightfest 2026)
Eighteen years after he brought body-snatcher horror back from the grave with his cult anthology favourite I Sell the Dead (2008), and fourteen years since he updated the summer-camp slasher for the found-footage era with his segment in the original V/H/S (2012), Irish filmmaker Glenn McQuaid has returned to reinvigorate […]
Bone Keeper (Glasgow Frightfest 2026)
For as long as humanity has walked the Earth, we have both feared and felt the allure of holes in the ground; the first humans lived in caves, and perhaps that is the reason why many crave the opportunity to return to the dark, confined openings in the earth that […]
Manchester Film Weekender: Adabana, Strangers in Kyoto, and Kaneko’s Commissary (JFT 2026)
Beginning in 2004, the Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme has brought the best of Japanese cinema – both new and classic – to audiences across the United Kingdom. This year’s lineup, which includes a handful of UK premieres, goes by the title of Knowing Me, Knowing You: The True Self […]
Infirmary (2026) Dances With Films NY – World Premiere
Fans of found footage horror will have known for a long time by now that the medium does not die – it simply waits to be rediscovered. In an age where found footage aesthetics are thriving online due to the rising popularity of “analog horror”, it’s always great to see […]
Outside the Blue Box: Crooked House (2008)
Twenty years ago, viewers tuned in to watch the very first televised episode of Doctor Who penned by Mark Gatiss – a writer and actor who was, at the time (and to some, perhaps still), best known for his work on the macabre cult comedy series The League of Gentlemen. […]
The Diabolical Dr Z (1966) Jess Franco before he became the King of Spanish Sleaze
Jesús “Jess” Franco was God’s favourite pervert. If Mario Bava was the father of European gothic cinema, then Franco is its weird uncle – a title I bestow upon him out of love and appreciation, of course. According to IMDb, the Spanish genre filmmaker directed a whopping 199 feature films […]
She’s the He (BFI London Film Festival 2025)
The past few years haven’t been an easy time to be transgender (if there ever truly has been an “easy” time to be trans), not least in the United States, so it’s not surprising that the majority of films by trans creatives in recent memory have been on the angstier […]