Halloween

Horror gaming has really evolved since the new millennium put it's cold claws around our necks. Mainstream horror games are no longer relegated to zombie infested mansions or towns overcome by thick fog and pyramid-headed monsters. Ever…

To mark this year’s Halloween, Headstuff animation expert Joseph Learoyd has penned a new three-part column titled Cartoon Pumpkins, delving into the spooky side of the form. His final entry talks more broadly on fear in animation. Fear.…

To mark this year’s Halloween, Headstuff animation expert Joseph Learoyd is starting a new three-part column titled Cartoon Pumpkins, delving into the spooky side of animation. His second entry is on 1987 anime horror Lily C.A.T.. After…

To mark this year’s Halloween, Headstuff animation expert Joseph Learoyd is starting a new three-part column titled Cartoon Pumpkins, delving into the spooky side of animation. His first entry is on 1929 Disney short The Skeleton Dance.…

Eli represents an easy day at the office for the Netflix algorithm. It’s Halloween so let’s make a horror. Throw in a few different flavours of horror though, since not everyone likes ghosts. Ever notice how Vera Farmiga is in all scary…

For those wanting to get into the Halloween mood but struggling to find something spooky or terrifying to watch, Headstuff have you covered. Our film writers have selected 25 films and TV shows currently streaming on Irish Netflix designed…

One night when I was 13 years old, I found myself to be in that gleeful scenario that 13 year olds yearn for but rarely find themselves in; my family had all separately gone out for the evening and thus I had the entire house to myself,…

"Is doiligh drochrud a mharú" - it's hard to kill a bad thing. (Irish proverb) It's Hallowe'en again and the time is right for a Motherfoclóir Samhain Special! Is Annual Sweetgiving Day a capitalist ploy or is it I inherently socialist?…

It’s strange to write about the 20th anniversary of a film that is actually 45 years old. Released in cinemas in America on St. Stephen’s Day 1973 and around the world in early 1974, The Exorcist is celebrating an anniversary this year in…

Body horror has been around since Greek mythology. Yet, only in the last two hundred years has it been used to really push the boundaries of what we consider acceptable and how we view our own bodies. Whether it’s disease, technology or sex…