Isn’t it funny how time can heal all wounds in the world of movies? Just a few short years ago, the words “contained”, “chamber” or “one location horror” had utterly exhausted the genre audience – to the extent that people didn’t want to see another film set in one place […]
From the Festivals
Hold the Fort (Fantasia International Film Festival 2025)
William Bagley’s Hold the Fort received its world premiere at the 2025 Fantasia Festival, and two movies in, the director of The Murder Podcast seems to be flying his flag for comedy horror. It’s a sub-genre that’s often deemed unbankable by the studio system and those who finance movies, so […]
The Well (Fantasia International Film Festival 2025)
Apocalypse cinema is fairly self-explanatory and, if you listen to certain fatalistic people in the media and on social media, we’re currently living through one. Post-apocalypse, in which the end has happened and society falls into a violent anarchy, has been endlessly mined as part of the zombie sub-genre – […]
Saint Clare (2024) Fun, Atmospheric Play on the Cycles of Vengeance
“Everything I have said and done is in the hands of god” Clare Bleeker (Bella Thorne), has been plagued with voices since she was a child. Righteous justice, only to be brought by her down on the heads of those who deserve. But how will she live with the shadows […]
Fantasia Festival 2025: What We Are Looking Forward To!
The dog days of summer are upon us, along with a season of mania, chaos, and high strangeness – all of which can be found in the line-up for the 29th edition of the Fantasia International Film Festival, which continues to bring attendees the best, boldest, and often most bizarre […]
House Of Ashes (Glasgow Frightfest 2025)
It never ceases to amaze me how genre cinema can adapt itself to anything. From sociopolitical melodrama to generations divided, whether it be Science Fiction or Horror, there are reasons why so many of us are drawn off the beaten path and into the spooky woods of the cinematic landscape. […]
Psyche (Glasgow Frightfest 2025)
Take Alex Garland’s Annihilation with a smidgen of the budget and far fewer trees. Blend this with Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal and filter the result through Terrence Malick. That is a reductive description of Psyche, a discordant but striking journey through landscapes and mindscapes alike that received its UK […]
Rumpelstiltskin (Glasgow Frightfest 2025)
The original folk tale of Rumpelstiltskin is one we’ve all had read to us as children or at least know the overarching events of. A miller, eager to elevate his social status, lies about his daughter’s abilities – claiming she can spin straw into gold. The king, soon to remarry, […]
The Doom Busters (Glasgow Frightfest 2025)
Maybe in the future, I should judge what films I watch based on if I crack a smile or not looking at the synopsis, because when I noticed that The Doom Busters was about British citizens serving in the Home Guard uncovering an alien presence during World War II, I […]
The Last Sacrifice (Glasgow FrightFest 2025)
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 […]