They Came from Outer Space – but only on Friday and Saturday Nights
An affectionate reappraisal of The Terrornauts and Amicus’s other ‘terrors for tots’ by Adam Jezard…
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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…
Why are you still watching? Violence and complicity in The Last Horror Movie
Rebecca McCallum tackles the controversy of violence and audience complicity through an exploration of the bold and brutal The Last Horror Movie (2003)…
‘He Has His Father’s Eyes’: the Spectre of Freud in Peeping Tom
The mild-mannered serial killer who is obsessed with his parents is such a prevalent horror trope it’s easy to overlook how it came into being. Here, Hollie Starling looks at the origin myth of Peeping Tom’s gentle voyeur Mark Lewis and, naturally, find him looking back…
Phibes Lives! – 50 Years Of Dr Anton Phibes
Johnny Restall celebrates 50 years of Dr Anton Phibes – Malevolent Master of Music & Murder…
The Making of The Devil Rides Out: Dennis Wheatley (Part two)
The second in a series of essays by K B Morris on the occult writer Dennis Wheatley explores his novel, The Devil Rides Out, and the making of one of the truly great films in Hammer Productions’ oeuvre…
Two Girls, One Fox: Portrayals of Masculinity and Femininity in Prey
Andy Roberts revisits Norman J. Warren’s 1977 Sci-Fi horror, Prey, to discuss the film’s ‘contrasting depictions of gender, sexuality and the role of animals’ amid an exploration of human nature…
Odd Little Films: an interview with Grant McPhee
Ellis Reed chats to director Grant McPhee about his film, Far From the Apple Tree, low-budget filmmaking, and collaboration…
Everything exploits us: an interview with Norman J. Warren
In a previously unpublished interview from 2018, Martin Parsons spoke with legendary director Norman J. Warren about the 70s horror industry, dog-faced aliens and women in peril…
The Haunting of the Lady-Jane: An interview with Kemal Yildirim about his current Kickstarter
Ellis Reed interviews the indie filmmaker about his forthcoming horror film…
Repulsion in the age of Coronavirus
Alex Secker discusses how Roman Polanski’s 1965 horror has been recontextualised by the Coronavirus pandemic…
