Archive
[Review] The Mirror of the Nameless
24/02/2021
William Brown reviews The Mirror of the Nameless by Luke Walker, a fast-paced creature-feature gorefest from a fantastic writer of action...
[Review] The Art of Anatomy
24/06/2021
Ann Laabs reviews The Art of Anatomy, a novelette by Gary Power which will appeal to fans of HBO’s Carnivàle...
Watch Ruth Paxton’s A Banquet in Glasgow or at home, March 2022
16/02/2022
A Banquet will screen on 5 and 6 March as part of the Glasgow Film Festival, and also online through Glasgow Film At Home...
[Review] Amulet (2020)
30/01/2022
Ellis Reed reviews Amulet, the long-awaited début of writer-director Romola Garai...
Out now in the UK, Charlie Steeds’ Winterskin
04/01/2022
Dark Temple’s 2018 film finally gets a UK release on DVD and streaming...
Jack in the Box director to shoot The Ghost Within this March
18/01/2022
Lawrence Fowler’s upcoming film, The Ghost Within, is described as a ghost story set in the English countryside...
Early Haunts: A Graphic Novel of Seminal Ghost Stories
21/10/2020
T.W. Burgess' latest creation, the incredible graphic novel Early Haunts is currently running a Kickstarter campaign ahead of production. Find out more about Early Haunts and support the campaign...
[Review] Great British Horror Volumes 1-4, plus an interview with the editor, Steve J Shaw
13/11/2021
Dan Carpenter takes a look back at volumes 1-4 of Black Shuck Books’ Great British Horror series, ‘a showcase for the best the genre has to offer’, and interviews the editor, Steve J Shaw...
[Review] Homebound (2021)
01/04/2022
British horror Homebound, supported by the BFI and BBC Film, is the feature length debut of writer-director Sebastian Godwin...
[Review] The Cottingley Cuckoo
17/04/2021
Horrified’s Ally Wilkes reviews The Cottingley Cuckoo by AJ Elwood, a deeply chilling literary horror novel for fans of Rosemary’s Baby and dark fairy lore...
[Review] Fantasia Film Festival 2021: Paul Dood’s Deadly Lunch Break
02/08/2021
Caitlyn Downs tags along on Paul Dood’s Deadly Lunch Break (2021) and finds something to savour amidst the chaos...
Win tickets to Amulet at BFI Southbank, with director Q&A
12/01/2022
12/01/2022: The BFI are offering two tickets to Amulet, including a Q&A with writer-director Romola Garai, at BFI Southbank on Friday 21 January...
Hex and The Droving now free to watch online
18/02/2022
The feature-length folk horrors are now on Youtube, and it’s totally legit
He Will Rise Again: Darkness Visible (Review)
23/09/2020
Horrified's Ellis Reed reviews Neil Biswas' unsettling and atmospheric British/Indian horror tale, Darkness Visible
Critics list homegrown horrors among best British films of the 21st Century
16/04/2022
The top slot went to Jonathan Glazer’s Under the Skin...
Upcoming online events for aspiring horror writers
18/07/2022
This August and September, would-be horror writers can attend virtual workshops with event organiser Alex Davis and an assortment of very appealing guests...
Poster reveal for Walking Against the Rain by Scott Lyus
25/02/2022
Walking Against the Rain is set in a post-apocalyptic world, with the humanoid ‘Forsaken’ being portrayed by James Swanton in full body costume...
The Ghost of the Factory: Why the UK Release of Sayaka Murata’s Earthlings is Great for British Horror
07/10/2020
Leonie Rowland takes a close look at Sayaka Murata's new novel Earthlings and why the release is great for British horror...
[Review] Ten Little Indians (1965)
14/03/2021
The 1965 version of the Agatha Christie classic is coming to Blu-Ray on 15 March, courtesy of Network. Jonathan Rowe takes a look...
Winter Haunts, Sunday 6 November 2022
11/09/2022
Winter Haunts is billed as ‘an online day of workshops, panels & talks on ghost stories, gothic and supernatural fiction, with Sarah Waters, Paul Tremblay and more...’
[Review] Dark Ditties Presents… Dad (2021)
08/11/2021
The Dark Ditties gang serve up a zombie apocalypse with a supernatural twist. Ellis Reed reviews Dad, their fifth production...
Opening The Box of Delights – a Review
06/10/2020
Dr. Robert Edgar reviews Philip W Errington's new tome, Opening The Box of Delights for Horrified
[Review] A Phantom Lover and Other Dark Tales
30/03/2022
Sarah Johnson is transported in time and place by A Phantom Lover and Other Dark Tales by Vernon Lee, part of the British Library’s Tales of the Weird...
[Review] A Different Kind of Light
16/05/2021
Horrified’s Ally Wilkes reviews A Different Kind of Light by Simon Bestwick, a genuinely scary novella from Black Shuck Signature...
[Review] The Monster, aka I Don’t Want to Be Born (1975)
02/12/2021
Noah Rymer takes a look at Network's recent remaster of The Monster, starring Joan Collins and Donald Pleasence...
[Review] The Black Gloves (2017)
03/04/2021
Last month, the colour version of Lawrie Brewster’s horror melodrama, The Black Gloves, became available to stream on Amazon. Mark Anthony Ayling reviews the film for Horrified...
[Review] Deity by Matt Wesolowski
19/02/2021
Horrified’s Ally Wilkes reviews Deity by Matt Wesolowski, the latest instalment in the utterly compelling, podcast-inspired Six Stories horror/crime series...
[Review] Dark Missives
18/07/2021
William Brown reviews Dan Howarth’s Dark Missives: ‘all killer, no filler’ from a true master of horror...
Tell Me I’m Worthless
19/10/2021
Dan Carpenter reviews Tell Me I’m Worthless by Alison Rumfitt: ‘the haunted house novel for our times.’
[Review] Home & Other Stories
19/05/2021
Paul Gorman reviews P.J. Blakey-Novis’s Home, a micro-anthology of short stories themed around Earth, Air, Fire and Water...
Night Voices – a review
14/12/2020
Robert Welbourn reviews Night Voices, a collaboration between Paul Edwards and Frank Duffy containing scary stories of the supernatural but also everyday life.
Bafflegab are auctioning horror memorabilia to raise funds for DEC’s Ukraine appeal
12/04/2022
Goodies include a poster for their audio version of Blood on Satan’s Claw, signed by Mark Gatiss, Reece Shearsmith, Alice Lowe and more...
History or hysteria? Book of shadows: Blair witch 2
05/10/2020
Horrified's Chris Andrews digs into Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 to determine whether the derided sequel deserves a second chance...
Pig Brother is Watching You – The Nightmarish Industrial Dystopia in Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs
14/12/2020
Andy Roberts looks back at The ChineseRoom's survival horror game Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs...
[Review] Scared Sacred: Idolatry, Religion and Worship in the Horror Film
20/02/2021
Jessica Scott reviews Scared Sacred from House of Leaves Publishing, a collection of writings exploring the cultural history of religion in horror...
Remembering Mario Bava’s Black Sunday
15/12/2020
Tristan Shaw celebrates 60 years of Black Sunday, the influential gothic masterpiece and Mario Bava's debut proper...
The Christmas You Deserve – a review
03/12/2020
Sarah Johnson reviews Paul Finch's The Christmas You Deserve, a collection of seasonal ghost stories in which revenge is exacted and transgressions are punished...
Russell Owen’s Shepherd debuts at #3 on UK iTunes horror charts
22/02/2022
Shepherd was released on Blu-ray and streaming yesterday, immediately picking up steam on iTunes…
Appointments with Fear! A review of The Third BHF Book of Horror Stories
17/09/2020
Horrified's Ann Laabs reviews The Third BHF Book of Horror, a sinister spin on characters or situations from classic and cult British horror movies...
Release date and trailer for Followers
26/02/2022
Followers – the new film from Parkhouse Pictures, who produced Anna and the Apocalypse and The Kindred – will be hitting cinemas on 18 March 2022...
Hammer’s next release: Doctor Jekyll starring Eddie Izzard
08/03/2022
Hammer Studios have acquired the UK rights for a new version of the gothic classic, starring Eddie Izzard as Dr Nina Jekyll...
[Review] Dangerous Dimensions: Mind-bending Tales of the Mathematical Weird
02/03/2021
A superb new anthology of Weird Maths – from the Victorian era to the Space Age – takes Paul Gorman for a very strange and thrilling trip indeed...
[Review] The Black Dreams: Strange Stories from Northern Ireland
29/03/2022
Sarah Johnson reviews The Black Dreams from Blackstaff Press, perhaps the first collection of strange stories from Northern Ireland, which draws on its culture and history for a thought-provoking read...
Romford Horror Film Fest to run from 25 to 27 Feb
27/01/2022
Head to the the Premiere Cinema in Romford between 25 and 27 Feb for a festival of indie horror cinema. Weekend passes £32.
[Review] The Crows
03/08/2021
William J. Brown reviews C. M. Rosens’ ‘mind-boggling and surprising’ The Crows, the first novel in the Pagham-on-Sea series...
Jack in the Box sequel out now
04/01/2022
03/01/2022: Lawrence Fowler’s Jack in the Box: Awakening has just been released on DVD and streaming...
Casting info for Hammer Studios’ Doctor Jekyll
17/03/2022
Lindsay Duncan and Simon Callow join Eddie Izzard for the B Good Picture Company’s adaptation of Doctor Jekyll, to be released in the UK by Hammer Studios...
Danny Robins’ Uncanny returning to BBC Sounds this summer
30/05/2022
BBC Sounds have tweeted that Danny Robins’ Uncanny will return for a summer special on 6 June...
The Cine-Excess International Film Festival: Black Lake – a review
24/11/2020
Ellis Reed attended The Cine-Excess International Film Festival (online) earlier this month and reviewed their pick of British horror films...
Kickstarter for London Gothic, an exciting new series of graphic novels
05/03/2022
London Gothic, written by Nick Henry and illustrated by Mike Burton, follows the last surviving member of a secret order who needs to protect powerful relics from an evil enemy…
British horror Shepherd out in Feb, available to pre-order now
24/01/2022
Shepherd – one of Mark Kermode’s Films of the Week – can now be pre-ordered on iTunes and Blu-Ray ahead of its 21 Feb release...
Benny Loves You – review
19/01/2021
Ellis Reed reviews Karl Holt's murderous stuffed teddybear horror-comedy, Benny Loves You...
But for the grace of God: Saint Maud – a review
08/10/2020
Horrified's Graham Williamson reviews the psychological and theological horrors of Rose Glass' Saint Maud...
A Natural History of Ghosts – a review
28/10/2020
Ally Wilkes reviews Roger Clarke's A Natural History of Ghosts - an examination of the 'most haunted' history of England...
The Nights Before Christmas – a review
22/12/2020
Ellis Reed reviews British writer/director Paul Tanter's slasher sequel, The Nights Before Christmas...
[Review] Zomblogalypse
02/11/2021
A decade on, the cult web show returns as a big screen feature. Ellis Reed reviews the Zomblogalypse movie and catches up with the filmmakers...
Watch now: trailer for Charlie Steeds’ The Haunting of the Tower of London
28/05/2022
The trailer for Dark Temple’s The Haunting of the Tower of London is peppered throughout with striking horror images...
[Review] Under A Raven’s Wing
03/03/2021
Ann Laabs reviews Under A Raven’s Wing, Stephen Volk’s collection of Sherlock Holmes prequel stories featuring Edgar Allan Poe’s detective Dupin...
EXCLUSIVE COVER REVEAL AND EXCERPT: ALL THE WHITE SPACES BY ALLY WILKES
14/09/2021
We’re excited to reveal the cover and share an exclusive excerpt from All the White Spaces by Ally Wilkes, Horrified’s own Book Reviews Editor!
FrightFest announce films for Glasgow 2022
20/01/2022
20/01/2022: FrightFest have published the schedule for their 2022 Glasgow Event, running from Thursday 10 to Saturday 12 March...
Dominic Brunt’s werewolf movie, Wolf Manor, is now in post-production
26/04/2022
Some ‘first look’ stills have been released for Wolf Manor, the forthcoming werewolf film from Dominic Brunt...
[Review] Dreaded Light
08/10/2022
Ellis Reed reviews Dreaded Light, the atmospheric horror film from Mark MacNicol...
[Review] Black Mamba
07/06/2022
Black Mamba, the debut novel from William Friend, slithers into Ally Wilkes’s must-read list, bringing literary-horror stylings and creepy delights...
[Review] Black Mountain
29/03/2022
Horrified’s Ally Wilkes takes a trip to Mynydd Du in Simon Bestwick’s novel Black Mountain, an accomplished found-document horror set in the forests of Wales...
[Review] The Day of the New Gods (plus an interview with the author, Luke Walker)
30/05/2021
William J Brown reviews The Day of the New Gods, Luke Walker’s ‘hugely enjoyable, turbo-charged’ prequel to The Mirror of the Nameless.
Manchester’s Grimmfest present ‘Monsters and Movies’, 19-20 November
13/09/2022
Grimmfest’s ‘Monsters and Movies’ will showcase ‘awesome monster movies’ and ‘the creative minds behind them’ on 19 and 20 November at the Odeon Great Northern in Manchester
[Review] Heavy Weather: Tempestuous Tales of Stranger Climes
01/06/2021
Horrified’s Ally Wilkes reviews Heavy Weather, the latest collection of tempestuous tales from the British Library’s Tales of the Weird...
[Review] Evie (2021)
04/10/2021
Ellis Reed reviews Evie by Dominic Brunt and Jamie Lundy, which premièred at the 2021 Arrow Video FrightFest...
Now touring: Thunder Road Theatre’s SHOCK HORROR by Ryan Simons
12/10/2022
Thunder Road Theatre’s SHOCK HORROR is touring the UK between 5 October and 9 November...
Ten Terrifying & True Terror Tales
30/10/2020
Terror Tales editor, Paul Finch, recounts 10 of the most disturbing true terror anecdotes he's collected during his time as custodian of the much-loved series...
[Review] The Queen of the High Fields
08/04/2022
Horrified’s Ally Wilkes enjoys Welsh-mythology-based dark fantasy/folk horror novella The Queen of the High Fields by Rhiannon A Grist...
Landing 27 June: The Haunting of the Tower of London by Charlie Steeds
13/04/2022
Steeds has been sharing the cover art for his upcoming release, The Haunting of the Tower of London, out on 27 June...
Death Lines: Walking London’s Horror History now available to pre-order
01/08/2022
Pre-orders are now open for Death Lines: Walking London’s Horror History by Lauren Jane Barnett
The Burning Girls (review)
21/01/2021
Rob Welborn explains why he read The Burning Girls by C.J. Tudor with such unrelenting enthusiasm: “I could not stop reading this book”.
[Review] The Outcast and The Rite: Stories of Landscape and Fear, 1925-1938
27/05/2022
Horrified’s William Brown reviews The Outcast and The Rite, a collection of the weird fiction of Helen de Guerry Simpson from the ever-exciting Handheld Press...
[Review] Society Place
15/12/2021
David Allkins reviews Society Place, a novella by Andrew David Barker: ‘a great addition to English supernatural horror’.
Dune Drifter – a review
11/12/2020
Ellis Reed reviews 2020's Dune Drifter, a low budget sci-fi effort from writer/director, Mark Price...
[Review] Babythump (2021)
01/07/2021
Andrew Screen reviews 2021's BABYTHUMP, the second horror short film from editor-turned-director, Ian Killick...
[Review] The Battersea Poltergeist (2021)
06/03/2021
Highly popular BBC podcast, The Battersea Poltergeist, revisits the infamous mid-50s haunting and attempts to uncover the truth behind the remarkable story. Graham Williamson reviews the podcast for Horrified...
[Review] The Haunted Hotel (2021)
16/05/2021
Mark Anthony Ayling reviews The Haunted Hotel, a British supernatural anthology film from FILM Suffolk...
[Review] The Show (2020)
18/09/2021
Ellis Reed reviews The Show, Alan Moore's screenwriting début, from the 2021 Arrow Video FrightFest. Mitch Jenkins directs...
[Review] The Night Has Seen Your Mind
05/06/2021
Robert Welbourn reviews The Night Has Seen Your Mind, an intriguing novel by Simon Kearns which blends horror with speculative fiction...
UK horror comedy When the Screaming Starts acquired by Double Dutch International
13/02/2022
The Toronto and LA-based company will handle worldwide sales for When the Screaming Starts, the directorial debut of UK filmmaker Conor Boru, which premiered at FrightFest in 2021...
Trailer for Sky and HBO horror-comedy series The Baby
06/03/2022
Eight part series The Baby will air on Sky Atlantic and NOW TV in 2022...
The Woman In Black (1989)
03/09/2020
The Woman In Black finally gets a restoration from Network, but what does Horrified's Kira Comerford think about this previously unavailable ghost story classic?
[Review] Censor (2021)
01/11/2021
Mark Anthony Ayling reviews Censor by Prano Bailey-Bond, an ‘art-horror classic-in-the-making’...
[Review] Followers (2021)
14/03/2022
Ellis Reed reviews Followers, which will be playing in Vue and Showcase cinemas from 18 March...
Signature show off new clip from Brit horror A Banquet
14/02/2022
Watch a scene from Ruth Paxton’s directorial début…
Assorted doom: Four Nightjar Press chapbooks – review
23/01/2021
Andrew Pope reviews a selection of recent chapbooks by Nightjar Press, an independent publisher releasing single weird stories by individual authors...
Soho Horror Film Fest: Pride Edition
18/07/2021
Ellis Reed gives a roundup of his favourite films from the recent virtual festival...
Peripheral and Await Further Instructions to get UK TV premieres on Horror Channel
22/02/2022
Two British productions, both eerie sci-fi horrors, will screen on the Horror Channel in the coming weeks…
[Review] Lips
10/07/2022
Ellis Reed reviews Lips, the new short film from Black Octopus Productions...
[Review] Beneath the Trees (2019)
08/09/2021
Mark Anthony Ayling reviews Beneath the Trees by Marco De Luca, which is now available to stream through the Sky Store and Amazon Prime...
Director’s cut of Crucible of the Vampire now streaming
15/07/2022
A new cut of 2019’s Crucible of the Vampire – the retro gothic thriller from Ghost Dog Films – is now streaming on multiple platforms...
[Review] The Village in the Woods (plus an interview with filmmaker Raine McCormack)
01/04/2021
Ellis Reed revisits a 2019 love-letter to Seventies cinema and interviews the creator, Raine McCormack...
[Review] Global Horror Cinema Today: 28 Representative Films from 17 Countries
29/09/2021
Ellis Reed reviews Global Horror Cinema Today – John Towlson’s representative ‘snapshot’ of the genre – and interviews the author for Horrified...
Next Tales of the Weird anthology due 20/01/2022
15/01/2022
15/01/2022: British Library Publishing announce that 'Shadows on the Wall: Dark Tales by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman' will be on sale from next week...
British horror The Last Rite to hit Prime on 4 April
23/03/2022
The Last Rite, written and directed by Leroy Kincaide, will be available to rent or buy on Amazon from 4 April...
[Review] Cornish Horrors: Tales From the Land’s End
11/12/2021
Cornish Horrors – the latest British Library Tales of the Weird anthology – takes Paul Gorman on a trip to Cornwall, and although enjoyable, he finds it isn’t quite as horrific as all that...
[Review] Parallel Hells
26/05/2022
Natalie Wall reviews Parallel Hells, Leon Craig’s ‘strong’ debut short story collection using gothic horror and folklore to explore queer themes and identity...
Grimmfest announces Easter line-up
24/02/2022
15-18 April 2022: Grimmfest Easter will include live screenings in Manchester and online screenings for remote attendees...
Distinctive Visions: International Screenings from Cine-Excess
05/04/2021
Ellis Reed reports back from a recent Cine-Excess event, which screened women-led films from six different countries...
Upcoming horror from British Library Publishing
09/02/2022
Four more spooky titles will be hitting shelves in the first half of 2022…
This town is a beacon for monstrosities: a review of The Telling
06/09/2020
A review of Stewart Hamilton's atmospheric folk horror short, The Telling...
[Review] The Midwife (2021)
23/08/2021
Ellis Reed reviews The Midwife, a chilling indie horror by Ryan Gage and Marta Baidek, which recently appeared on Amazon Prime...
[Review] I Am Stone: The Gothic Weird Tales of R. Murray Gilchrist
05/11/2021
I Am Stone, the latest from the British Library’s Tales of the Weird, beguiles Paul Gorman with the dreamlike imagination of R Murray Gilchrist...
London Horror Society to host Indie Film Showcase on 06/03/2022
19/01/2022
On 6 March, the London Horror Society will show more than two hours of short films at the Hen & Chickens Theatre in North London...
[Review] Horrifying Tales: An Anthology
22/02/2021
Ann Laabs presents for your approval a short, sharp collection: Horrifying Tales from Greenteeth Press collects vignettes from a haunted generation of children, bathed in the comforting glow of 1970s and 1980s television...
[Review] Ars Gratia Sanguis
12/11/2021
Dan Carpenter enjoys Great British Horror volume 6, Ars Gratia Sanguis, ‘a fascinating exploration of the links between horror and visual art.’
[Review] Shepherd (2021)
20/02/2022
Ria Woodburn reviews Shepherd, a supernatural chiller by Russell Owen, which is out on blu-ray and streaming tomorrow...
[Review] Wastelands (2020)
26/04/2021
Kemal Yildirim’s film Wastelands is touring festivals with eighteen selections, six nominations and nine awards under its belt. Graham Williamson reviews for Horrified...
The House of a Hundred Whispers – a review
04/11/2020
CP Hunter reviews The House of a Hundred Whispers, author Graham Masterton's return to the horror genre...
James Crow’s Curse of the Witching Tree coming to Netflix UK
18/04/2022
Brit horror The Curse of the Witching Tree will land on Netflix next month...
The Psychology of Frozen Trauma – A Retrospective on Silent Hill: Shattered Memories
08/11/2020
Andy Roberts revisits Silent Hill: Shattered Memories, a reimagining of the first instalment in the survival horror series...
[Review] Cult Cinema
31/07/2021
Andrew Pope explores cults, brainwashing and ‘bad religion’ in Howard David Ingham’s non-fiction book Cult Cinema.
Terror Tales of the Home Counties – a review
09/12/2020
William Brown reviews Terror Tales of the Home Counties, the latest in an anthology series from author Paul Finch, combining horror stories with vignettes of Britain’s macabre past...
[Review] A Quiet Apocalypse
14/12/2021
Robert Welbourn reviews A Quiet Apocalypse by Dave Jeffery, the first in a series of post-apocalyptic novellas set in a meningitis-ravaged Britain.
In A Deep, Dark December – a review
19/12/2020
William Brown reviews In A Deep, Dark December, Paul Finch’s collection of dark and lovingly-crafted Christmas horror stories...
[Review] The Children God Forgot
04/02/2021
Paul Gorman reviews The Children God Forgot by Graham Masterton, a “fast-paced, page-turning” read...
[Review] Minor Hauntings
31/07/2021
Sarah Johnson reviews Minor Hauntings: Chilling Tales of Spectral Youth (ed. Jen Baker), the latest in the British Library’s excellent Tales of the Weird series...
Casting and first stills from Wrecked, an upcoming BBC Three horror-comedy
03/03/2022
The BBC’s Wrecked is described as ‘a pure love letter to slasher movies’…
[Review] The Abyss Within
05/04/2021
William J Brown reviews The Abyss Within, a collection of short macabre delights from SmashBear Publishing with all proceeds going towards Women’s Aid...
We Are Wolves (review)
08/01/2021
Horrified’s Ally Wilkes reviews We Are Wolves, a new collection of horror by female and non-binary writers with all proceeds going to survivors of abuse and assault...
British horror The Kindred out now on Amazon Prime
08/01/2022
Not to be confused with The Kindred (1987) or Kindred (2020), this is Jamie Patterson’s psychological drama about an amnesiac woman haunted by the ghosts of children...
Trailer lands for BFI’s 2022 Blockbuster Season, ‘In Dreams Are Monsters’
22/09/2022
Whet your appetite for the BFI’s upcoming season...
[Review] Women’s Weird: Strange Stories by Women, 1890-1940
03/02/2021
Sarah Johnson reviews Women’s Weird, a collection of strange stories by women 1890-1940 from Handheld Press...
Shadow Service by Cavan Scott & Corin M. Howell
05/09/2021
Paul Gorman thoroughly enjoys Shadow Service, a ‘fast, gruesome, erudite and funny’ supernatural spy horror comic from Cavan Scott & Corin M. Howell...
Onus – a review
29/12/2020
Ellis Reed reviews new folk horror tale, Onus, the sophomore effort from British writer/director, Alex Secker...
[Review] The Heiress (2021)
10/03/2021
Bobby Diabolus takes a look at new supernatural horror The Heiress from first time director Chris Bell...
[Review] A Banquet (2021)
12/03/2022
Ria Woodburn reviews A Banquet, a new British horror film by Ruth Paxton...
[Review] Too Near the Dead
06/07/2021
A young couple move into a brand new house, but a spirit from the past will not be quelled. Paul Gorman reviews Too Near the Dead, a haunting story from the Scottish countryside, by Helen Grant...
A Quick Guide to Narciso Ibáñez Serrador – Horror’s Great Two-Hit Director
16/09/2020
A quick guide to the work of Narciso Ibáñez Serrador, one of Europe's most underrated and influential horror filmmakers.
[Review] Human Beings
21/11/2021
Ann Laabs reviews Human Beings, a quietly dread-inducing collection of short stories by Rachael Llewellyn that will ‘break your heart while creeping your flesh’.
Charlie Steeds’ new werewolf film out tomorrow
30/01/2022
Dark Temple’s new film, Werewolf Castle, will be out on DVD and digital from 31 January…
There’s so much that I want to share with you: a review of Burn
14/09/2020
Ellis Reed reviews Judson Vaughan's psychological horror short, Burn.
Murder Movie Makers: Directors Discuss Their Killer Flicks – a review
04/11/2020
Richard Gough Thomas reviews Matthew Edwards' Murder Movie Makers, a collection of interviews with filmmakers and screenwriters who have tackled real-life monsters in their work...
Trailer drops for British horror film A Banquet
06/01/2022
05/01/2022: A trailer for A Banquet – Ruth Paxton’s horror début – is now available to watch on Youtube...
[Review] The Thing That Ate the Birds, plus filmmaker Q&A
22/06/2022
Ellis Reed reviews The Thing That Ate the Birds - free to watch online through the Alter platform - and interviews the filmmakers, Sophie Mair and Dan Gitsham...
[Review] H is for Hell
16/02/2021
Robert Welbourn reviews H is for Hell, the latest in a series of short story anthologies from Red Cape Publishing...
Grimmfest announce dates and venue for 2022, passes now on sale
26/01/2022
Manchester’s International Festival of Fantastic Film will run from 6 to 9 October at the Odeon Great Northern, with an online programme the following week...
[Review] The Kindred (2021)
17/02/2022
A woman suffering from amnesia pieces together the events that led to her father’s suicide, only to be haunted by the ghosts of children that she begins to suspect were murdered by him…
[Review] Damnable Tales: A Folk Horror Anthology
23/09/2021
Andy Paciorek reviews Damnable Tales: A Folk Horror Anthology selected and illustrated by Richard Wells, and finds it to be a ‘must-have’ collection...
Scarred for Life Volume Two: Television in the 1980s – review
15/01/2021
David Allkins reviews the second volume of Scarred For Life, focusing on British television in the 80s - an 'engaging and fascinating read' sure to re-awaken childhood nightmares...
[Review] Everything’s Annoying
07/06/2021
Paul Gorman reviews Everything’s Annoying by J.C. Michael, a promising debut collection inspired by the British horror of the 80s...
[Review] Things I Didn’t Know My Father Knew
28/02/2021
Sarah Johnson discovers Peter Crowther’s impressive short story range in his ‘best of’ collection, Things I Didn’t Know My Father Knew...
Michael Fausti’s Exit now streaming on UK Amazon
25/01/2022
Fans of arthouse horror can rent Exit for £2.49 or own it forever from £6.99…
[Review] Devil’s Advocates: The Blood on Satan’s Claw
26/04/2021
Andy Paciorek reviews Devil’s Advocates: The Blood on Satan’s Claw by David Evans-Powell, a new entry in Auteur Publishing’s series of horror film studies...
Hosts – review
23/01/2021
Ellis Reed reviews Adam Leader and Richard Oakes’ home invasion thriller, Hosts...
[Review] The Power (2021)
08/04/2021
In Corinna Faith's feature length début, a trainee nurse is haunted during a blackout. Ellis Reed reviews for Horrified...
[Review] Wildwood: Tales of Terror & Transformation From the Forest
28/06/2021
Paul Gorman creeps into the Wildwood in this excellent new anthology of late 19th and early 20th-century forest-themed weird fiction edited by William P. Simmons...
Coming September: Tales From the Great War
07/06/2022
Tales From the Great War - the upcoming release from Ciao Handy films - will land on 1 September...
The Banishing – a review
25/10/2020
Ellis Reed reviews The Banishing, which recently premiered at FrightFest...
[Review] Our Wives Under the Sea, plus author Q&A
28/03/2022
Natalie Wall reviews Our Wives Under the Sea, the complex, literary, and ambiguous deep-sea-horror novel from Julia Armfield. Includes an exclusive interview with the author.
Droving director George Popov announces documentary on haunted English forests
05/02/2022
Popov’s Sideworld will be a series of documentaries on folklore and the paranormal, beginning with Haunted Forests of England...
TV premiere of Book of Monsters scheduled for later this month
04/05/2022
Dark Rift’s Book of Monsters will get its UK TV premiere on Saturday 14 May, courtesy of the Horror Channel...
The New Abject – review
13/01/2021
Richard Gough Thomas reviews The New Abject, a collection of short stories exploring the queasy, contagious and wretched...
The World We Knew – a Review
10/10/2020
Ellis Reed reviews new independent British horror, The World We Knew, due for its world premiere at FrightFest in October...
[Review] Beasts Beyond Borders: Gothic – An Illustrated History by Roger Luckhurst
01/12/2021
Johnny Restall explores the global gothic with Roger Luckhurst’s fascinating new volume Gothic – An Illustrated History.
[Review] Holes for Faces
20/06/2022
Robert Welbourn reviews Holes for Faces, a new collection of short stories from the horror institution which is Ramsey Campbell…
The British Weird – a review
23/11/2020
Ally Wilkes reviews The British Weird, a collection of stories from the British “Haute Weird” tradition of 1893-1937...
The Cine-Excess International Film Festival: Black Lizard Tales – a review
26/11/2020
Ellis Reed attended The Cine-Excess International Film Festival (online) earlier this month for Horrified and reviewed their pick of British Horror films. Here, he reviews the triptych, Black Lizard Tales...
[Review] The Last House on Needless Street
31/03/2021
Sarah Johnson reviews Catriona Ward’s The Last House on Needless Street, a Gothic novel with a tantalising puzzle-box narrative...
Paranormal event in Lincolnshire: ‘Chasing the Wolves of Weird’, 23/09/2022
04/08/2022
Author Richard Daniels (‘Occultaria of Albion’) presents ‘an entertaining and occasionally terrifying journey into an alternate realm filled with strange conspiracies, ghosts, UFOs and more’ at Louth Town Hall on 23 September...
[Review] Bella in the Wych Elm (plus an interview with filmmaker Tom Lee Rutter)
29/03/2021
Ellis Reed reviews Bella in the Wych Elm, a ‘Midlands phantasmagoria’ by local filmmaker Tom Lee Rutter, and discusses the film with the man himself...
Hauntology: Ghosts of Futures Past – A review
22/10/2020
Ally Wilkes reviews Merlin Coverley's Hauntology: Ghosts of Futures Past which uses speculative fiction to produce a careful examination of the concepts of haunting, time, and nostalgia.
[Review] Devils of London
11/12/2021
William Brown reviews Devils of London, Simon Bestwick’s novella set in a post-apocalyptic London: ‘historically- and politically-attuned horror, smouldering with dread.’
[Review] Cheslyn Myre
12/07/2021
Paul Gorman visits the troubled town of Cheslyn Myre in Dan Weatherer’s new novella, and wants to see more…
London Gothic – review
16/01/2021
Sarah Johnson reviews London Gothic, a collection of short stories by Nicholas Royle full of eerie uncertainties and a pervasive sense of dread...
The Face in the Glass – Tales of the Weird
23/01/2022
Sarah Johnson celebrates the genre accomplishments of Mary Elizabeth Braddon, a commercially successful Victorian writer, in her review of The Face in the Glass from the British Library’s Tales of the Weird...
[Review] The Owners
21/02/2021
Ellis Reed takes a look at Julius Berg's feature-length debut, The Owners, starring Maisie Williams and Sylvester McCoy...
[Review] Such Pretty Things
11/04/2021
Horrified’s Ally Wilkes reviews Such Pretty Things by Lisa Heathfield, a short and nightmarish novel for fans of Susan Hill or Henry James...
New Scarifyers audio book out now, read by series star Terry Molloy
21/03/2022
100% of proceeds from The Scarifyers: An American Werewolf in Ludlow will go to the Disasters Emergency Committee Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal…
The Apparition Phase – a review
17/12/2020
Dan Jones reveals The Apparition Phase by Will Maclean, a hugely enjoyable debut examining grief and loneliness through the 1970s paranormal.
UK Ghost Story Festival Comes to Derby This November
16/11/2021
The UK Ghost Story Festival will be returning with three packed days of readings, panels, interviews, talks, workshops and more. Read on for more details, provided to Horrified by the organisers.
UK horror production Choose or Die to land on Netflix next Friday
09/04/2022
Choose or Die (developed as ‘Curs>r’) will be released globally via Netflix on 15 April, starring Asa Butterfield, Iola Evans and Eddie Marsan…
The New Abject: Online Book Launch
20/10/2020
Comma Press is hosting an online book launch for The New Abject, the latest in their Modern Horror Series on the 4th November...
[Review] The Devil’s Machine (2019)
23/06/2021
Lawrie Brewster’s 2019 horror The Devil’s Machine recently appeared on Amazon Prime. Mark Anthony Ayling reviews for Horrified...
[Review] The Front Door
10/08/2021
Ellis Reed reviews The Front Door, a darkly humorous short by Andrew Rutter...
John Williams’ Tales of the Creeping Death out now on Prime
06/02/2022
Horror anthology Tales of the Creeping Death is available to rent or buy online...
Homebound to hit cinemas on 1 April, streaming on 4 April
08/03/2022
Homebound is a an atmospheric chiller by first-time director Sebastian Godwin, starring Aisling Loftus (A Discovery of Witches) and Tom Goodman-Hill (Humans)...
[Review] Alien in the Mirror: Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Glazer, and Under the Skin
11/05/2021
Dan Jones reviews Alien in the Mirror, author and critic Maureen Foster’s take on sci-fi oddity Under the Skin: a headfirst dive into the film’s deathly black soup of alien visitation, erotic liquification, and the dark art of moviemaking...
Upcoming Tales of the Weird: The Night Wire and Our Haunted Shores
12/05/2022
The latest books in British Library Publishing’s Tales of the Weird series are about to land...
British stop-motion anthology The House lands on Netflix
16/01/2022
16/01/2022: Produced by Nexus Studios in London, The House is a creepy trio of tall tales by Enda Walsh...
[Review] The Nameless
12/08/2021
William Brown reviews The Nameless, the final entry in Luke Walker’s excellent and action-packed Nameless trilogy...
EXCLUSIVE COVER REVEAL AND EXCERPT: THE DEVIL’S GIFT by JOSHUA ROBINSON
17/02/2022
We’re hugely excited to reveal the cover and share an exclusive excerpt from The Devil's Gift, the debut novella by Joshua Robinson...
Horror-on-Sea, 14-16 and 21-23 Jan
05/01/2022
The Southend horror festival returns with screenings spread over two weekends...
[Review] Bedtime Stories
06/02/2021
Sarah Johnson reviews Bedtime Stories, a collection of thought-provoking original and Lovecraftian short stories by Russell Smeaton...
[Review] I am the Dark Tourist
15/03/2021
Horrified’s Ally Wilkes reviews I am the Dark Tourist by H. E. Sawyer, a thought-provoking, uncomfortable and chilling look at the appeal of ‘dark tourism’...
[Review] The Beckoning, plus filmmaker Q&A
25/06/2022
Ellis Reed reviews The Beckoning and speaks to the filmmaker, Stewart Hamilton...
[Review] Randall’s Round
17/11/2021
Horrified’s Ally Wilkes is entranced by Randall’s Round: Nine Nightmares by Eleanor Scott: ‘a powerful distillation of the British Weird.’
[Review] Harvest
13/08/2021
Paul Gorman reviews Harvest, a superbly enjoyable graphic novel about occult practices in the English countryside, by Julian Payne and Zoe Elkins...
[Review] Just Behind You
18/11/2021
Mike O’Driscoll explores Ramsey Campbell’s world - ‘a dark, refracted vision of our own’ - in his short story collection Just Behind You.
Grant McPhee’s Far From the Apple Tree available now on DVD
15/07/2022
Far From the Apple Tree – Grant McPhee’s ‘pop-art fairytale’ – is out now on DVD
It Can’t Happen Here: The Day of The Triffids (review)
26/09/2020
Andrew Screen reviews the recent Blu Ray release of the BBC's 1981 adaptation of The Day of the Triffids
[Review] Everyone Forgot
07/09/2022
Ellis Reed reviews Everyone Forgot by Theo Kai Marlow, which had its world première at the recent FrightFest...
[Review] The Face in the Glass: The Gothic Tales of Mary Elizabeth Braddon
05/04/2022
Sarah Johnson celebrates the genre accomplishments of Mary Elizabeth Braddon, a commercially successful Victorian writer, in her review of The Face in the Glass from the British Library’s Tales of the Weird...
[Review] Picker’s Bleed
08/07/2021
William Brown reviews Picker’s Bleed, a tale of witchy curses, haunted houses, and demonic possession from Mark R. Faulkner...
Upcoming British horror: Starve Acre starring Matt Smith, Morfydd Clark
02/02/2022
Second feature from Apostasy director Daniel Kokotajlo to shoot this spring, backed by BBC and BFI
[Review] Far From the Apple Tree
18/03/2021
Ellis Reed reviews Grant McPhee's Far From the Apple Tree, 'a dazzling film with shades of the occult and folk horror'...
[Review] Standing Woman
17/01/2022
Tony Hipwell has a new short film out – and it couldn’t be more different to Zomblogalypse! We take a look at Standing Woman, based on a story by Yasutaka Tsutsui...
The Book of Horror: The Anatomy of Fear in Film
03/09/2020
Ellis Reed reviews Matt Glasby's new book about the scariest films ever made...
[Review] Peter the Penguin (plus an interview with filmmaker, Andrew Rutter)
21/03/2021
Mark Anthony Ayling reviews Peter the Penguin, a body horror/comedy short film from filmmaker Andrew Rutter...
BFI unveils Blockbuster Season 2022: ‘In Dreams Are Monsters’
12/09/2022
The BFI’s 2022 Blockbuster Season will explore five monstrous archetypes – ‘Beast, Witch, Ghost, Vampire, Zombie’ – in cinemas across the UK and on BFI Player…
Another chance to see Jeremy Lovering’s In Fear
11/01/2022
10/01/2022: In Fear, the 2013 British horror from writer/director Jeremy Lovering, will be shown on Film4 tonight at 2.20am, and then on All 4.
[Review] You’ve Got Red on You: How Shaun of the Dead Was Brought to Life
22/09/2021
Ellis Reed reviews You’ve Got Red on You: the forthcoming book about the making of 2004’s Shaun of the Dead, written by Entertainment Weekly's Clark Collis...
Photoghasts: A Haunted Photo Card Game
31/07/2022
Photoghasts by T.W. Burgess combines a spooky card game with smartphone-based augmented reality…
[Review] The Angels of L19
07/11/2021
Dan Carpenter discovers The Angels of L19 by Jonathan Walker, a ‘strange, brilliant’ novel set in a close-knit Christian community in Thatcherite Liverpool.
British horror at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival: In The Earth, Censor, and Eight for Silver
08/02/2021
Andrew Pope reviews three British horror efforts on show at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival...
[Review] Country of Hotels (2019)
20/04/2021
In his feature film début, London-based director Julio Maria Martino invites us to stay in Room 508. Graham Williamson reviews Country of Hotels for Horrified...
[Review] The Garden of Bewitchment
03/02/2021
Robert Welbourn reviews The Garden of Bewitchment by Caroline Cavendish, a novel of classic Gothic terror...
[Review] Paths Best Left Untrodden
02/08/2021
Robert Welbourn reviews Paths Best Left Untrodden, a ‘brilliant’ and varied collection of short stories from Kev Harrison...
British Touring Shakespeare announce dates for Dracula adaptation
11/01/2022
11/01/2022: An open air stage production of Dracula will be coming to three locations in June 2022...
[Review] Made In Britain
03/03/2021
WJ Brown reviews Made in Britain from HellBound Books: 'everything a horror anthology should be'...
[Review] Women’s Weird 2: More Strange Stories by Women, 1891-1937
05/02/2021
Ally Wilkes reviews Women’s Weird 2, the second collection of strange stories by women 1891-1937, from Handheld Press...
The Flesh-Eating Curiosities of Eurociné
03/09/2020
Andy Roberts inspects the flesh-eating curios of European schlocky gore merchants Eurociné...
[Review] Midsummer Eve
09/04/2021
Dan Carpenter reviews Midsummer Eve (ed. Steve J Shaw), the sixth volume in Black Shuck Books’ terrific Great British Horror anthology series...
[Review] Exit (2020)
21/03/2021
Exit is the feature-length début of Michael Fausti, who unveiled the film at last year’s Horror-on-Sea. Graham Williamson takes a look...
Trailer and poster for indie horror The Haunting of the Lady-Jane
22/09/2022
Check out the trailer and poster for Kemal Yildirim’s supernatural thriller, The Haunting of the Lady-Jane...
Peter Strickland’s Flux Gourmet to premiere at Berlin Film Festival
08/02/2022
A trailer has been released for Peter Strickland’s new film ahead of its Friday screening...
All The White Spaces
24/01/2022
Paul Gorman is swept to the wilderness of Antarctica in All the White Spaces, the stunning debut novel by Ally Wilkes, and finds something waiting there...
First Fears: a six-week online summer school with published horror writers
13/05/2022
First Fears, running in June and July, is an opportunity to attend virtual workshops with first-rate horror writers...
[Review] The Villa and The Vortex
18/09/2021
William Brown reviews The Villa and The Vortex, an ‘exquisite’ new collection of Elinor Mordaunt’s classic weird fiction from Handheld Press...
[Review] The Searching Dead (The Three Births of Daoloth #1)
15/02/2021
David Allkins reviews The Searching Dead by Ramsey Campbell, a 1950s tale of supernatural dread and the first in his new trilogy The Three Births of Daoloth...
21st Century British Horror Films, Volume 1: Dog Soldiers and Doghouses – a review
30/10/2020
Dean Newman reviews MJ Simpson's exhaustive study of 21st Century British horror films, from the celebrated to the obscure...
The Shape of Darkness (review)
12/01/2021
Horrified’s Ally Wilkes reviews The Shape of Darkness by Laura Purcell, a gothic page-turner of supernatural tension and claustrophobic atmosphere...
Network presents Kim Newman’s Nightmare Night In streaming from 23 October
15/10/2020
Network announces tickets for KIM NEWMAN’S NIGHTMARE NIGHT IN...