You’re right, it’s quite a title, and it could have been worse as, if Ted Nugent wasn’t such an unacceptable figure these days, Mary Dauterman’s feature debut could have been called Cat Scratch Fever. Anna, the film’s protagonist, receives a nasty clawing from her pet cat Booger that results in […]
Horror
Satan Wants You (Soho Horror Fest 2023)(Review)
In November of 1980 a psychiatrist by the name of Dr. Lawrence Pazder from Victoria, British Columbia, wrote and published “Michelle Remembers” – an allegedly factual account of the childhood abuse of his patient, Michelle Smith, by a Satanic cult. Co-written by Smith herself, the book graphically describes how Michelle […]
Hippo (Soho Horror Film Festival 2023)(Review)
The title character of Mark H. Rapaport’s debut film, played by the film’s co-writer Kimball Farley, is an amateur film-maker who, quoting Nikola Tesla, promises his audience “man-made horrors beyond your comprehension” – and the Soho Horror Festival seem to have agreed by hosting the film’s UK premiere. It’s no […]
Godless: The Eastfield Exorcism (Soho Horror Fest 2023) (Review)
Having its UK premiere at Soho Horror Festival’s in-person Satanic Panic Gala, Godless: The Eastfield Exorcism is an exploration that scours the darkest depths of religious exorcism. Directed by Nick Kozakis and written by Alexander Angliss-Wilson, Godless: The Eastfield Exorcism centres around Australian couple Lara (Georgia Eyers), and her husband […]
The Hyperborean (Soho Horror Festival 2023)(Review)
Spoiler warning! “Heaven is still here, but it can’t be breathe.” Cook’s cosmic journey into grief, family dynamics, and moral grey areas. Who doesn’t love whiskey? With coke, on the rocks, with lemonade, it’s the drink that tastes good in every mood. Robert McClaw, a discoverer tasked with finding another […]
Saint Drogo (Soho Horror Festival 2023)(Review)
In Catholicism, Drogo is considered to be the patron saint of the unsightly and the outcast, shepherding a flock made up of those who are exiled and shunned for their perceived ugliness. The Flemish martyr’s relevance to Provincetown, Massachusetts (a small holiday town on the New England coast), may not […]
10 Films You Shouldn’t Miss at Soho Horror Fest 2023
Returning this November 24th to the 26th to the Whirled Cinema, Brixton is Soho Horror Festival, closely followed by the online Sohome Horror Fest broadcasting the horror directly into your home on November 30th to December 3rd. Expertly curated by pillar of the horror community and festival director Mitch Harrod, […]
Give Me Pity! (2022) – Fear and loathing rolled in glitter (Review)
The Jester (2023) The killer clown genre pratfalls its way to a sorry end (Review)
It’s official: cinema has ruined clowns. Which particular make-up-caked straw broke the camel’s back is up for debate, however; from The Man Who Laughs to Terrifier, it’s currently hard to imagine when the garishly-dressed grinning maniacs were more funny than scary. Yet audiences are forever drawn to the freaky little […]
The Ginger Snaps Trilogy (2000-2004) Important piece of Disruptive Art, vital as Teen Horror icon (Review)
Somewhere between the meta-cinematic knowingness of Scream and the self-contained irony of Jennifer’s Body sits Ginger Snaps, a smart, sassy, trilogy of teenage girls dealing with lycanthropy. Or are they really dealing with teenage problems? Menstruation and other signs of puberty; sexuality and relationships; addiction and self-harm; colonialism and manifest […]