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In a previously unpublished interview from 2018, Martin Parsons spoke with legendary director Norman J. Warren about the 70s horror industry, dog-faced aliens and women in peril…
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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…
Never the Butt of the Joke: Genuine Horror in Shaun of the Dead (2004)
Parody or pastiche? Nick Bartlett revisits Shaun of the Dead to explore the balance between horror and humour, finding it a heartfelt homage to Romero’s vision…
Banality and Liminality: Assessing Throbbing Gristle Through ‘After Cease To Exist’
Throbbing Gristle have left an uncertain legacy; this piece from Declan Cochran examines that legacy, via the short film After Cease To Exist…
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’…
It’s That Time of the Month – A Look at Megan in Dog Soldiers
In the fight between man and werewolf, Kim Morrison takes a look at why zoologist Megan is the most interesting and complex character in Neil Marshall’s 2002 werewolf hit Dog Soldiers…
Collective dreams: an interview with Michael Fausti
Ellis Reed interviews Michael Fausti, director of the psychosexual thriller, Exit…
A Reconstruction: Ten Years of Kill List
‘Part modern folk tale with dark carnival influences and part exploration of the damaged male psyche’; Caitlyn Downs explores the mythos amid the horror in Ben Wheatley’s 2011 sophomore film, Kill List…
Horror Stalking Our Streets
When we migrated to the cities, the isolation and terrors of an uncaring rural nature should have been left behind. Instead, as Melissa Elborn discovers, terror has followed us into our towns…