Robots, Aliens, Monsters, and Surreal Trips: An Interview With Terry Cooper
We talk to Terry Cooper about his forthcoming horror comedy, Bloody Students, which is now in development…
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Welcome to the Horrified Film page. Here, you’ll find writing including articles, essays, analysis, retrospectives, insights and love letters to everything British horror cinema…
Ancient Terrors – or the Terror of Ancientness? Archaeophobia in British Film and TV
Francis Young explores whether the distant past, in and of itself, can be a source of horror, leading to a distinct fear of the past: archaeophobia…
Digging Through Horror on the London Underground
In a companion piece to her absorbing exploration of The Thames and the horror film, Lauren Jane Barnett essays how London and its underground system are deeply intertwined, in life and cinema, from Quatermass and the Pit to Death Line and beyond…
Howling with Laughter and Fear: 40 Years of An American Werewolf in London (1981)
Dean Newman offers his thoughts on the seminal lycanthrope film, An American Werewolf in London (1981) which celebrates its 40th anniversary this month…
Locations, Lighting and Just the Right Amount of Ambition: The Horror Films of Charlie Steeds
Horrified catches up with Charlie Steeds, the man behind Dark Temple Productions, for an exclusive interview with the wunderkind of neo-retro British horror…
Of Dogs, Dreams and Doom: The Appointment (1981)
Ray Newman examines Lindsey C. Vickers’ obscure 1981 British horror, The Appointment. Granted only a VHS release, the film is notable for being Vickers’ one and only feature-length film…
‘Come and have a dance with Andy’: Exhibit A (2007)
Dom Rotheroe’s EXHIBIT A (2007), isn’t often the first found-footage title that springs to mind, but Duncan Gates argues that it stands head and shoulders above a number of better-known contemporaries, in this piece for Horrified…
The Beast Must Live!: The Beast Must Die (1974)
Jonathan Clode recently discovered Amicus’s 1974 lycanthropic entry, The Beast Must Die. Despite being an avowed werewolf movie fan, he’d never before encountered Paul Annett’s film. Here are Jonathan’s thoughts…
Disturbing the Fairy Tale in The Company of Wolves (1984)
In her first essay for Horrified, Lakkaya Palmer examines how The Company of Wolves subverts the conventions of the traditional fairytale…
The Train From Another World: The Odd Universe of Horror Express (1972)
Andy Roberts climbs aboard the Horror Express to explore the 1972 sci-fi horror favourite, which was not alone in taking inspiration (and plot points) from John. W. Campbell’s influential novella, Who Goes There?