DeepStar Six (1989) (blu-ray film review).
DeepStar Six originally came out in 1989, and this is the first time I’ve seen it. The film title comes
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Scary Movie returns (Mark Kermode’s horror film review).
There is something grimly fascinating about a horror spoof lumbering back from the grave after thirteen years, still wearing the
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Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (horror film: trailer).
There are film titles that whisper. There are film titles that tease. And then there is Teenage Sex and Death
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Backrooms: Mark Kermode’s horror film review (video).
There are certain places in life that feel faintly wrong. An empty shopping centre five minutes before opening. A motorway
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Practical Magic 2: the Owens sisters return, and so do the candles (trailer).
There are certain films that arrive not so much as movies, but as seasonal weather patterns. The original Practical Magic
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Lee Cronin’s The Mummy unwraps grief, gore and enough bandages to bankrupt Boots (Mark Kermode film review).
There are certain things cinema simply cannot leave buried. Dracula rises every decade or so for another nibble, Frankenstein gets
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Spider, Spider by L.C. Winter (book review).
‘Spider, Spider’ is the debut novel from L.C. Winter. The categorisation on the rear of the volume defines it as
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Speed Demon: horror film, The Nun, The Demon, and the 5:42 to Doomsville (trailer).
If there’s one thing horror cinema has taught us, it’s that demons have a strong preference for enclosed spaces. Houses,
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Godzilla Minus Zero: Because Things Clearly Weren’t Miserable Enough Already (trailer).
There are sequels, and then there are sequels that look at the smouldering wreckage of the previous film and say,
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The Boroughs, Netflix TV series: Cocoon Meets Cthulhu (trailer).
There comes a point in every civilisation where it must ask itself a serious question: what if the people best
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