Folk Horror Foundations in Hot Fuzz
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…
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Here, you’ll find writing including articles, essays, analyses, retrospectives, insights and love letters to everything British horror film…
A Bloodcurdling Cacophony: Dissecting Hellraiser (1987)
Graham Le Neve Painter dissects a classic of British Horror, 1987’s Hellraiser…
James Whale: God of Monsters
James Whale is a megalith of early horror cinema. An out gay man, he direct some of the greatest gothic horror films Universal Pictures would ever produce. Retrospectively seen to be saturated with queer subtext Whale’s films celebrate ‘the outsider’ figure that would characterise the horror movie genre for decades to come. Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana explores the man and his monsters…
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?
Celebrating The Invisible Man (1933)
Celebrating the British influence in Universal’s Classic Monster stable, Johnny Restall explores James Whale’s 1933 adaptation of H.G. Wells’ The Invisible Man…
Swinging The Hammer: Dracula A.D. 1972 Reconsidered
Unfairly maligned or a Hammer film low point? Johnny Restall heads back to swinging London for Dracula A.D. 1972…
Of Dogs, Dreams and Doom: The Appointment (1981)
Ray Newman examines Lindsey C. Vickers’ obscure 1981 British horror, The Appointment. With a recently announced BFI Blu-ray coming in 2022, the film is notable for being Vickers’ one and only feature-length film…
‘A tuppence where yer ’eart should be’: Andy Milligan’s British horror films
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…
The Importance of Presentation: Peter Cushing in Corruption
It’s safe to say, British exploitation shocker, Corruption, was not a favourite of its star, Peter Cushing. Jamie Evans looks at Cushing’s turn as the damaged doctor, Sir John Rowan…
Finding Meaning in Ben Wheatley’s In The Earth (2021)
Caitlyn Downs returns to the films of Ben Wheatley, this time exploring the search for meaning in his 2021 psychedelic folk horror, In The Earth…