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…
In this in-depth essay, Paul Lewis examines Tigon Productions’ penultimate film, Fred Burnley’s 1972 ‘coastal gothic’, Neither the Sea Nor the Sand…
Nick Bartlett returns to one of the great British horror anthologies, 1945’s Dead Of Night, in this article for Horrified…
Lauren Jane Barnett explores how the Thames of horror films is given agency, acting on the narrative aiding both good and evil in films from Hitchock’s 1927 The Lodger through to the 2017 remake of The Mummy…
Ellis Reed reviews She Lives Alone, a rural gothic short from emerging filmmaker, Lucy Rose. He also discusses the film with Lucy for Horrified…
Leeroy Cross James takes a retrospective look at the House of Mouse’s dip into the horror genre, and how they used genre tropes to their advantage…
Ellis Reed catches up with Rubicon Films’ George Popov, director of Hex (2017) and The Droving (2020)…
At once sublime and horrifying, the English countryside is increasingly the backdrop in horror that explores a growing unease about our place in the world. Melissa Elborn digs deeper into why the ground beneath our feet is revealing our darkest imaginings…
Jane Nightshade goes behind the camera to take a closer look at the cinematographers who helped give Hammer its ‘bright, bold and scary’ visual appeal…
Created during a nationwide lockdown in 2020, Host captured the zeitgeist to become one of the most popular and discussed horror films of the year. With its impending release on Blu-ray and DVD (amid another lockdown), James Swanton writes exclusively for Horrified on the creation of his demonic screen persona and his cinematic influences…
Filmmaker Alex Secker discusses how Vincent Price and Robert Fuest’s early 70s cult classics continue to influence the horror genre…