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Extreme Horror | Argentinian When Evil Lurks Scratches that Nasty Horror Itch
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…
Bottoms Movie Review | Superbad Meets Fight Club in Seligman’s Delightful Queer Comedy
Following my initial viewing of filmmaker Emma Seligman’s feature-length debut, Shiva Baby, I had a feeling that she would be a name to keep your eyes out for. Having now seen her sophomore…
Mancunian Man: The Legendary Life of Cliff Twemlow | A Touching Tribute to a Cult Hero
Cliff Twemlow may not be a name familiar to even ardent cineastes. If anyone is familiar with him, it may be more as a mythic figure. A proud Mancunian, Twemlow was a bodybuilder and nightclub bouncer in the northwest of England in the…
Enter the Clones of BruceExplores the Frequently Bizarre Subgenre of Bruce Lee Knock-offs | IFI…
Having done various breezy documentaries on off-beat cinema stories including video nasties (2004's Ban the Sadist Videos), Dan Curtis (2019's Master of Dark Shadows), Al Adamson (2019's Blood and Flesh), Nottingham lad David Gregory and…
Halloween 6 | The Defence of Michael Myers
Headstuff writers revisit memorable horror movies in the run-up to Halloween.
Just 17 years passed between John Carpenter’s original masterpiece and Michael Myers completing the Pink Panther Prophecy of Sequel Titling (Return…
Horror Revisited | From the Head in the Clouds to Getting Under the Shadow
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…
Life Itself | Synecdoche, New York Retrospective at 15
In ‘The Oval Portrait,’ Edgar Allan Poe writes of the discovery of a haunted painting in an,old château. The fable goes that its author worked ceaselessly to portray his beloved as realistically as possible, working day and night to…
Underrated Horror | Six Reviewer Recommendations for the Spooky Season
This October we asked our writers about their favourite examples of underrated horror: the underdog films that never got the recognition they deserved, the much maligned movies that are actually worthwhile despite the negative press, and…
Rock Hudson: All that Heaven Allowed | Solidly Sweet and Undeniably Touching Documentary
It can be easy to assume the lives of closeted public figures are the kind solely defined by self-loathing, marginalization, and poor mental health. Of course, we should not ignore the very real oppressive aspects that come with being…
Night of the Living Dead Anniversary Review | Alive and Kicking 55 Years Later
Fifty-five years on from its initial release, watching Night of the Living Dead (1968) is exhilarating. The story of a group of strangers boarding themselves into an isolated farmhouse as a defence against hoards of shuffling zombies is so…