Horror cinema

Patrizia Dahlia Thompson is here with the first in a new series on extreme horror! Sit back and get ready to scream! When Evil Lurks - the fifth film from Demián Rugna - is a nasty horror film. Let me be clear, I mean that in the best…

Headstuff writers revisit memorable horror movies in the run-up to Halloween. A brilliant horror that employs requisite jumpscares while portraying the impact of suppression and war trauma on people’s lives and psyche, Under the Shadow…

"I do love a good audience" - Pearl A few years ago, director Ari Aster released Hereditary. His debut all-in feature is a horror of such immense depth, that after the credits roll it stays with you for a long time. Part of that…

The decision of whether to expand a successful short is one that has befuddled filmmakers for a long time. On the one hand it can be handy for getting funding or interest, by being able to demonstrate what people liked in the first place.…

The Stylist is the debut feature of Jill “Sixx” Gevargizian. It's a crowdfunded expansion of Gevargizian's 2016 short of the same name. The film follows Claire (Najarra Townsend), a socially awkward hair stylist. She lives alone in a large…

Following on from Nysferatu: Symphony of a Century, his recreation of Friedrich W. Murnau’s 1922 film which screened at the Bram Stoker Festival in 2018, Italian director and artist Andrea Mastrovito returns to the 2020 online festival with…

“No one ever gets used to nightmares,” Mark Z. Danielewski wrote in his monstrous, unforgettable romantic horror novel House of Leaves. That’s what The Exorcist and its direct sequel The Exorcist III - the two best films of this long…

‘The Forbidden’ reads like a captivating, thrilling dream. Always on the edge of souring into a nightmare, it’s too late before the reader realises they’ve been in one since the start. Originally found in volume five of Clive Barker’s…

From the 1960s to the end of the 1980s, the horror genre entered a golden age. However, it didn’t take place in Hollywood, but rather in Italy, where directors like Dario Argento, Mario Bava, Pupi Avati and Lucio Fulci began to emerge.…