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Sometimes we ask - "Why do we pay our Netflix subscription?" Then a series such as Archive 81 lands and we re-evaluate that statement. We find ourselves thrown into a world of addictive 'binge watching' - screaming at the screen when the…

Call me a Grinch if you must, but the original 1974 Black Christmas's tie with the silly season has, over time, probably harmed its overall impact with horror audiences. Somehow or other, Black Christmas has remained overlooked in the…

  "The whole underside of our society has always been violence and still is." - Sam Peckinpah In cinema today, violence is nothing new to an audience, looking back over 50 years and things were pretty much the same. Classics…

"You'll simply never understand the true nature of sacrifice." May Morrison - The Wicker Man In the past number of years one old subgenre of horror movies has seen a well deserved revival: folk horror. Those movies, as the name suggests…

Welcome back to HeadStuff’s Podcast News Roundup, your go-to place for podcast news and recommendations. This week’s roundup features HeadStuff’s Podcast Of The Week and also looks at Your Hometown, Gen-Z podcast listeners, and Today FM's…

"Now the time has come. I put two bullets in my gun. One for me, and one for you. Oh darling, it will be so beautiful." The author Stephen King presented the world with a new nightmare in 1987. A story of horror, isolation and adornment…

"So give me a stage, Where this Bull here could rage.." The 1980 classic Raging Bull is one of the greatest biopics of all time. Nowadays we are fed one after another, and the genre is soaked with uneven, unbalanced outings. Above all of…

New Netflix series Ratched is escapism into very familiar territory. That territory is American Horror Story. Creator and director Ryan Murphy of course is the man behind the long running AHS franchise, and although that series has waned…

There is no denying that director Martin Scorsese helped to change cinema. His movies going back to the early 70s stand out as milestones, ushering a new wave of filmmaking. Scorsese took risks when few others did, presenting the horrors of…

"I believe in God, and the only thing that scares me is Keyser Soze." - Roger "Verbal" Kint The Usual Suspects is an illusion. A trick played out over 106 minutes that mirrors that of a magician. The prestige at the end leaves the…