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…
American filmmaker Andy Milligan’s extremely low-budget work was consigned to his homeland until 1968 when he ventured to the UK and made five horror films over a two-year period. Paul Lewis examines Milligan’s films in detail…
Gavin Whitaker takes a very deep dive into the infamous 1983 shot-on-video British horror, Suffer Little Children…
Peter Strickland has forged a career from a desire to reconfigure whichever genre he works in. In this essay for Horrified, Graham Williamson discusses the British director’s work…
Jane Nightshade recounts the story of Marlon Brando’s strange sojourn into British horror for Michael Winner’s The Nightcomers…
Paul Lewis latest essay for Horrified is an extensive exploration of the work of director Pete Walker and his collaboration with screenwriter David McGillivray, focusing on three of the former’s best-known films…
Tristan Shaw celebrates 60 years of Black Sunday, the influential gothic masterpiece and Mario Bava’s debut proper…
Johnny Restall dares enter Ashley Thorpe’s 2017 recreation of Borley Rectory – the Most Haunted House in England…
Jae Prowse heads back to 1980s Britain to look at the troubled production of much-derided festive slasher, Don’t Open Till Christmas…
With the festive season upon us, what better way to celebrate than with MJ Simpson’s curated selection of British Christmas horror? There’s one each for the 12 days of Christmas, so plenty to add to your yuletide watchlist…
The most celebrated of ‘serious’ British directors have taken detours into horror over the years, often producing some of the most thoughtful, nuanced and impactful genre highlights committed to celluloid. Matt Rogerson takes a look at the UK’s long lineage of cinema darlings who turned to the darkest of genres…
