The Thing

Do you like deep baritones and commanding screen presences? Then you'll love this week's episode of I Know That Face. Keith David's first role was in John Carpenter's The Thing which just means he was destined for greatness. From there, he…

"I don't know what the Hell's in there, but it's weird and pissed off, whatever it is." - Clark, The Thing.  The reverse horror game is not a new concept but it is one that remains thoroughly unexplored outside of multiplayer games. Dead…

The New England area is supposedly one of the most beautiful parts of the United States and I never want to go there. The setting of many of Stephen King’s most famous works as well as those of H. P. Lovecraft and even the home of Irish…

Tobe Hooper. Wes Craven. Sean S. Cunningham. Dario Argento. Horror cinema has many famous directors, auteurs if you want to be posh about it, but few are considered as varied and frightening as John Carpenter. Carpenter has directed…

Over the last one hundred years or so (well, since Bram Stoker decided to get spooky anyway), typically when we think of vampires we think of kind of strange, kind of creepy but distinctly alluring characters with a thirst for human blood.…

The Thing is now a byword for sci-fi/horror par excellence, one that can sit proudly among body horrors such as Alien, The Fly, Videodrome, Invasion of the Body Snatchers and others. But it wasn’t always so. Released today in 1982, The…

Andrew Carroll looked at Kill List's domestic disharmony. Paddy O'Leary looked at the best horror films available on Netflix. Graham Connors examined the dangerous voyeuristic gaze in the modern slasher film. Now, to bring our Halloween…