Witchcraft, retail, and the chaos of staying true to yourself. Meredith Alloway has a clear fascination with constructed realities. Her previous short work often examined the facades people build, the performance of identity in spaces designed to contain them. She looks for the tension where a character’s inner world grinds … Forbidden Fruits Review: Mall Culture Meets Coven ChaosRead more
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They Will Kill You Review: Kirill Sokolov’s Action Horror Is a Bloody Blast
They Will Kill You Review: Kirill Sokolov’s Action Horror Is a Bloody Blast A woman answers a cryptic ad for a housekeeping job at a luxurious yet foreboding New York City high-rise. Upon arrival, she discovers residents have vanished without a trace for decades, fuelling whispers of a satanic cult … They Will Kill You Review: Kirill Sokolov’s Action Horror Is a Bloody BlastRead more
The Viral Snuff Movie Review That Was Never Meant to Be
The Viral Snuff Movie Review That Was Never Meant to Be by David L. Tamarin Joe X’s “Richard Speck Murders Re-Enacted” is the Citizen Kane of snuff films, so I had high expectations for his newest feature, “IRS Agent in Basement.” He did not let me down, and “IRS Agent” is a … The Viral Snuff Movie Review That Was Never Meant to BeRead more
The Well (2024) Review: A Familiar Apocalypse That Plays It Too Safe
Survival instincts, scarce water, and a world you’ve seen before. Water is the oldest weapon. Strip a society of it, and everything collapses, quickly and brutally. That premise sits at the core of The Well, a 2024 post-apocalyptic survival film directed by Hubert Davis. In a genre already crowded with … The Well (2024) Review: A Familiar Apocalypse That Plays It Too SafeRead more
Ready or Not 2 Review: A Cathartic Horror Comedy That Delivers
The game is bigger. The billionaires are worse. The catharsis is real. Ready or Not 2 Review: A Cathartic Horror Comedy That Delivers The year 2019 introduced audiences to Grace, a bride who spent her wedding night fighting for survival against her newly inherited family of Satanists. Ready or Not became an … Ready or Not 2 Review: A Cathartic Horror Comedy That DeliversRead more
Slanted Review: The High School Satire That Replaces Laughs With Wounds
If you can’t beat them, be them. The cost is everything. Amy Wang’s debut feature, Slanted, opens with a child pulling at the corners of her eyes. It is a moment of cruelty so specific and so tired that it immediately establishes the film’s thesis: the world is not built for … Slanted Review: The High School Satire That Replaces Laughs With WoundsRead more
Darkness in the Fields 2026: Full Lineup, Tickets, and Exclusive Book Bundle Giveaway
Folk horror returns to Derby with Oscar contenders and a killer book bundle giveaway. Darkness in the Fields 2026: Full Lineup, Tickets, and Exclusive Book Bundle Giveaway The Darkness in the Fields Film Festival returns to Derby’s QUAD cinema on 21st March 2026 for its third year, cementing its status as a … Darkness in the Fields 2026: Full Lineup, Tickets, and Exclusive Book Bundle GiveawayRead more
The Bride! Review: Maggie Gyllenhaal’s Feminist Frankenstein Reboot Is a Punk Rock Triumph
Here comes the motherfucking bride: Gyllenhaal’s monster masterpiece is alive with anarchic joy. Maggie Gyllenhaal has done something remarkable with her sophomore feature, The Bride!: she’s taken the stitches and scars of cinema history and reanimated them into something entirely her own. The film wears its influences like badges of honour, … The Bride! Review: Maggie Gyllenhaal’s Feminist Frankenstein Reboot Is a Punk Rock TriumphRead more
The Phantasm Franchise: A Spherical Journey Through Cinematic Insanity
Five films. Forty years. One very tall problem. A spherical journey through cinema’s most wonderfully confusing nightmare. There are certain horror franchises that play by the rules, and then there’s Phantasm, a series that seems to have been dreamt up by a feverish raccoon on a three-day bender after watching too … The Phantasm Franchise: A Spherical Journey Through Cinematic InsanityRead more
Why Lord of Illusions (1995) Remains Clive Barker‘s Finest Film
Ditching the Cenobites for private eyes and practical magic. You can spot them immediately. The ones who discovered Clive Barker through Hellraiser tend to worship at the altar of Pinhead, the Cenobites, and that particular brand of S&M cosmology. Then you have the ones who came for Candyman, finding a tragic monster in … Why Lord of Illusions (1995) Remains Clive Barker‘s Finest FilmRead more
Psycho Killer Review: A Satanic Slasher Caught Between Seven and Stereotype
Psycho Killer, a taut but flawed thriller that swaps the sophistication of Seven for a Satanic cliché, driven by a strong lead in Georgina Campbell From the writer who defined 90s cinematic darkness comes a new slasher that attempts to revisit the gritty serial killer thriller. Andrew Kevin Walker, the … Psycho Killer Review: A Satanic Slasher Caught Between Seven and StereotypeRead more
Beyond I Love You to Death: The Most Heartbreaking Romances in Horror
Beyond I Love You to Death: The Most Heartbreaking Romances in Horror The Fright Club Podcast are looking at heartbreak in horror for Valentine’s Day! Not unrequited love turned to stalkerism, because that’s been done to death and it’s not romantic. But the heartbreak and longing of love and loneliness. … Beyond I Love You to Death: The Most Heartbreaking Romances in HorrorRead more
The Best Horror Movies of 2025 and Why 2026 is Already Twitching
The Bloody Benchmark: The Best Horror Movies of 2025 and Why 2026 is Already Twitching You know, it’s funny. You spend a whole year bracing for the worst, and somehow horror movies end up being the best part of it. Let’s just put it out there: 2025 was a monster … The Best Horror Movies of 2025 and Why 2026 is Already TwitchingRead more
Beauty Horror: The gore-geous fairy tale micro-genre
Beauty Horror: the gore-geous fairy tale micro-genre The Substance (Coralie Fargeat, 2024) and The Ugly Stepsister (Emilie Blickfeldt, 2025) Horror moves in fashions, and sometimes something new crawls up from the sticky neural pathways of our subconscious. Often it drips blood – but in the last couple of years we’re … Beauty Horror: The gore-geous fairy tale micro-genreRead more
Somnium Movie Review: Hollywood’s Dream Nightmare
With hopes of making it big in LA, small-town Gemma takes the overnight shift at Somnium, a mysterious sleep clinic where dreams are made real, but soon finds herself trapped in its web of dark secrets. Somnium Movie Review: Hollywood’s Dream Nightmare Cain casts a spell both horrifying and hopeful. … Somnium Movie Review: Hollywood’s Dream NightmareRead more