Author Emily Stockham

For most people, the word red when placed in the context of Christmas conjures festive imagery of holly, fairy lights and St Nick’s infamous suit. For horror fans however, it means another seasonal...

Love in the time of Coronavirus…MR speaks to Adam Mason about his lockdown-romance movie Songbird... Songbird, directed by Adam Mason and produced by Michael Bay, was the first film to go into...

Here at Movie Ramblings we love horror. Anything that may be described as gory, deranged, paranormal or all of the above – yes please, sign us up. That said, we’re pretty fed up of the...

With an opening scene reminiscent of late nineties candy-hued cult classic ‘Jawbreaker’, which sees a bitchy high school trio led by the enigmatic Rose McGowan throw their BFF into the trunk of a...

Social media trolls and so-called ‘cancel culture’ seem to have inserted themselves seamlessly into our everyday lives ever since the advent of platforms that are designed to give us dopamine...

Marilyn Monroe stars in this sinister thriller

Horror always presents a curious dichotomy when it comes to gender. Tradition has it that horror is the preserve of the sweaty, awkward teenage boys of the world, and of course, those men who haven’t...

The Ninth Cloud, directed by Jane Spencer, is beautifully strange. Well, that was my first most coherent thought that I could pull from the dreamy dregs of what I had just watched. A truly existential...

French filmmakers Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo splattered onto our screens back in 2007 with gory home invasion Inside . As Maury and Bustillo head to London’s Frightfest 2017 with their latest...

Body horror Let Her Out, directed by Cody Calahan, follows Helen , a bike courier who suffers a traumatic accident. Whilst she is reassured her recovery will be simple and fast, she begins to experience...

Jordan Peele’s racism fuelled thriller come dark comedy, Get Out, is arguably one of the most anticipated films of the year. It gained – if only briefly – the coveted 100% rotten tomatoes...

The best way to describe Adam Rifkin’s dark comedy horror, Director’s Cut is ‘so meta it hurts’. Now, we all love a nod to audience, an in-joke about the genre or even honourable...

Conspiracy theories were once the reserve of the so-called ‘freaks’ of society – the outcasts and loners looking for the fantastical in the mundane. However, with the rise of social media...

With festive slasher ‘Red Christmas’ debuting for European audiences at Horror Channel’s Frightfest later this month, we thought it was the perfect opportunity to catch up with director...

“I had sex today…Holy shit!” 15-year-old Minnie Goetze declares, jubilant, flabbergasted, in the opening scene of ‘The Diary of a Teenage Girl’. She’s triumphant, in such...

V/H/S – a film that I would never have guessed would get a sequel, let alone a third instalment. I felt I had to see just one more instalment to double check I’m not missing out on the one...

As Maud Watts, played by the captivating Carey Mulligan, turns to her husband in bed and asks, ‘if we had a daughter, what kind of life would she have had?’ I felt a pang of resonance with the...

William Shakespeare’s Macbeth is the story of a fearless warrior and inspiring leader who descends into madness as a result of his tyrannical ways. Director Justin Kurzel has created a thrilling yet...

Regular visitors to our site will know that one of the films that most took us by surprise at this year's Frightfest was Adam Mason's home-invasion shocker Hangman. We've already chatted to Adam himself...

Now, it might just be me, but when I hear about an insect-based horror film , I immediately think, ‘The Fly’, namely Cronenberg’s 1986 horror / sci-fi romance remake about a scientist who...

I was waiting with baited breath for the chance to interview director Dominic Brunt and his co-writer / leading protagonist Joanne Mitchell – in her long list of credentials, it's worth mentioning...