Editor's Choice

From November 3, Horror Channel celebrates vintage 1950s home-grown fantasy and horror with a HAMMER CLASSICS SEASON, The primetime Saturday night season, consisting of four network premieres, which star the...

Okay, I’m going to put this out there right from the off – just so we know where we all stand. If you agree, then great, but if you are so violently opposed that you plan on quitting reading right there...

Ahead of the World premiere screening of REBORN at Arrow Video FrightFest Halloween, Julian Richards discusses the torturerous challenges of DADDY’S GIRL, why he wishes every actress was like Barbara...

Having waded through oceans of cinematic (mostly horror) drek over the years, it takes a lot to get me angry. Slightly annoyed? Yep. Frustrated or disappointed? Hell yes. But angry? Fists clenched,...

Ever since word first surfaced that a new entry was planned in the Halloween saga, I have found myself more nervous than I can ever remember about a film’s release. The info kept dripping through –...

Derided by critics and justifiably unloved even by the fanbase, Halloween 6: The Curse Of Michael Myers all but killed the franchise. Sure, there were plans for a straight-to-DVD part 7, but to all intents...

Amazingly, it's approaching five years since the world lost a mesmerising and almost forgotten actress called Joan Fontaine. Of course, to people who love movies Joan Fontaine needs no introduction. As the...

In 1968, George A. Romero established the modern zombie film with his raw and terrifying debut The Night of the Living Dead, one of the most well-regarded and influential horror movies of all time. He...

John Carpenter is considered to be a horror director, which is a fair comment in the main. But with films like Starman, Memoirs of an Invisible Man and Big Trouble in Little China also under his belt, he is...

If Halloween 5 was the fear franchise close to coming off the tracks, Halloween 6: The Curse Of Michael Myers was the perhaps inevitable train wreck. An absolute mess of a film, the sixth instalment is...

John Carpenter's take on the Stephen King novel gets the thumbs up

By Jake Sapsford Following the releases of both Shaun of the Dead in 2004 and Hot Fuzz in 2007, my interest peaked as a teenager and I started to be heavily invested in the work of Simon Pegg, Nick Frost...

Arrow Video FrightFest unleashes an intoxicating six-pack of horror, sci-fi and fantasy for their popular Halloween all-day event, now at the Cineworld Leicester Square on Saturday 3 November. The 12-hour...

So, it’s Halloween again (well, nearly). But you don’t just wanna watch Halloween again - or even the latest Michael Myers outing when it arrives. The problem is horror is such an eco-friendly genre,...

The franchise hits the skids

By Casey Evans Why subtlety is key for the Clown Prince of crime... In the entirety of Batman’s Rogues Gallery, the Joker has always stood out as the prime example of the perfect villain; an antithesis...

Michael Myers returns.....again

I've always viewed Clive Owen as something of a 'nearly man' - he has headlined numerous enjoyable films (the likes of King Arthur and Shoot 'Em Up spring to mind), often bringing a world-weariness to other...

HOME and Film4 are excited to announce the programme for the third annual FilmFear season – six days of horror, extreme cinema, cult favourites and special guests coming to Manchester this...

OK, I know we do not usually cover television/streaming on our site, but when it is a new take on Shirley Jackson's iconic, classic The Haunting Of Hill House - and comes courtesy of Mike Flanagan no less - we...

A cabin in a deserted area of forest. Snowfall cutting off the visitors from much of the outside world. Then an unexpected – and unwanted as it turns out – ‘guest’ appears outside… So far,...