Outsider view: an interview with George Popov
An interview with Rubicon Films’ George Popov, director of Hex (2017) and The Droving (2020)…
Film
Here, you’ll find writing including articles, essays, analyses, retrospectives, insights and love letters to everything British horror film…
Creeping through the countryside
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…
The Uniqueness of the Hammer Camera: Jack Asher and Arthur Grant
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…
A Demon Writes: James Swanton on the Making of Host
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…
The Inspirational Dr Phibes
Filmmaker Alex Secker discusses how Vincent Price and Robert Fuest’s early 70s cult classics continue to influence the horror genre…
Corman In The Countryside: The English Poe Films
Johnny Restall explores Roger Corman’s UK Poe Films: When American Gothic met festering English Arcadia…
Come, Devil, Come: Suffer Little Children
Gavin Whitaker takes a very deep dive into the infamous 1983 shot-on-video British horror, Suffer Little Children…
Subverting Genre: Peter Strickland In Film
Peter Strickland has forged a career from a desire to reconfigure whichever genre he works in. In this essay, Graham Williamson discusses the British director’s work…
The Nightcomers (1971): Brando Does British Horror
Jane Nightshade recounts the story of Marlon Brando’s strange sojourn into British horror for Michael Winner’s The Nightcomers…
‘A Very Serious Relapse’: Pete Walker & David McGillivray’s House of Whipcord, Frightmare and House of Mortal Sin
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…