Monstrous Mothers: Possession
It’s easy to become desensitised when you watch horror films as frequently as I do, which makes it all the more rewarding when you eventually find one that unnerves and… Read More »Monstrous Mothers: Possession
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Overbloomed Roses : Kids Who Saw too Much in the Sixties
In 1957 John Wyndham published The Midwich Cuckoos, a science-fiction thriller situated a little closer to home than the sepulchral castles and grisly laboratories of Hammer Horrors that had been… Read More »Overbloomed Roses : Kids Who Saw too Much in the Sixties
Scarring Scores: It Follows
Suburbs are troubling places in film. Stretching through a no-man’s-land between city and countryside, they are hotbeds of restlessness, of repression, and of discriminate murder directed towards wayward teens. And… Read More »Scarring Scores: It Follows
Love Letter to Hammer Horror: The Abominable Snowman
While Hammer Horror had a hit with The Curse of Frankenstein, it was still trying to find its feet when it came to their horror style when The Abominable Snowman… Read More »Love Letter to Hammer Horror: The Abominable Snowman
Book vs Film: Hellraiser
THE SWEET, SWEET SUFFERING “We forget out pleasures and we remember our sufferings”, or so the Roman stateman Cicero once remarked; and in Clive Barker’s The Hellbound Heart the sweet,… Read More »Book vs Film: Hellraiser