‘That damned editor’s cut the best part of my review’: Theatre of Blood (UK, Douglas Hickox, 1973)
Paul Lewis revisits Theatre of Blood starring Vincent Price: ‘a delicious treat’ for horror fans…
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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 film…
The Renata Road: An interview with filmmaker Ed Greenberg and actor/executive producer C.J. de Mooi
Mark Anthony Ayling interviews director Ed Greenberg and actor/executive producer C.J. de Mooi about ‘psychological enigma’ The Renata Road…
‘A Haunting of Today’: Urban Ghost Story (UK, Geneviève Jolliffe & Chris Jones, 1998)
Paul Lewis dives deeply into Urban Ghost Story, an undeservedly obscure film set in Glasgow…
The Planet She Fell in Love With: Under The Skin
Graham Williamson explores Jonathan Glazer’s 2014 unsettling sci-fi horror, Under The Skin…
I wish the dead could come back to life, you bastard’: Jorge Grau’s The Living Dead at the Manchester Morgue
Paul Lewis explores the oddly prescient The Living Dead at the Manchester Morgue, Jorge Grau’s 1974 zombie film that explores both the urban and the rural, centre and periphery – the motivation for a significant proportion of English supernatural fiction…
An Essential Goodness: Attack the Block (2011)
Graham Williamson revisits Joe Cornish’s 2011 council estate-set alien invasion film, Attack the Block, which brilliantly subverted the notion of faceless ‘hoodie horror’…
Hot Fuzz’s Folk Horror Foundations
Devin McGrath-Conwell explores the sophomore effort in Edgar Wright’s ‘Three Flavours Cornetto’ trilogy with 2007’s Hot Fuzz and finds the film nestling comfortably within the folk horror canon…
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…
Who’s next? Perhaps…you? Tales from the Crypt (1972)
Jonathan Clode examines Amicus Productions’ take on EC Comics stories with its 1972 anthology, Tales From the Crypt…
A Bloodcurdling Cacophony: Dissecting Hellraiser
Graham Le Neve Painter dissects a classic of British Horror, 1987’s Hellraiser…