Author: Jenny Mugridge
Equal parts camp and shlock horror, Brooke H. Cellars‘s The Cramps: A Period Piece (2025) takes the humour and queer authenticity of a John Waters film and merges it into a gory creature feature that’ll get a standing ‘ovulation’ from period-havers in the audience! Agnes (played by Lauren Kitchen) is a beautiful apple-cheeked young woman
In 2002, 28 Days Later revitalised the zombie genre, introducing new lore and changing the game forever. And while 28 Weeks Later (2007) didn’t – and couldn’t – compete with that prestige, it remained an excellent addition to the franchise that expanded the world Danny Boyle and Alex Garland had created. 28 Years Later (2025),
Our Happy Place is a gritty psychological thriller slash modern murder mystery written and directed by Paul Bickel. The film weaves in worries that could only be understood by major audiences in the post-COVID era. Raya (Raya Miles) plays a woman experiencing extreme isolation and loss of meaning within her own world. Now full-time carer
Director Oz Perkins (The Blackcoat’s Daughter, Gretel & Hansel) has carved a niche for himself as a purveyor of slow, dreamlike horror steeped in dread. Longlegs, his latest film, promises to be his most ambitious project yet: a serial killer procedural dripping with Satanic overtones, shot through a grainy 90s lens, and headlined by a
Chuck Wendig’s novel Black River Orchard (2023) is a truly modern, small-town horror, evoking the best of Stephen King while summoning dark, twisted, and disturbing imagery that makes this story genuinely terrifying to read. Set in Harrow, Pennsylvania, the Black River Orchard mostly follows the father-and-daughter team of Dan and Calla Paxson. Obsessed with restoring
In the dystopian landscape of Cape Town, South Africa, Ryan Kruger’s 2025 sequel to Street Trash (1987) takes viewers on a gore-filled adventure through the perils of class warfare in the 21st century. Sometimes described as a remake or reimagining of the original, his film transposes the grotesque charm of the 1987 cult classic into
A lot has been said in the last week or so about the legend and legacy of David Lynch. The man was a unique visionary who saw the world, time and people in a way that changed the way we could all see them – and one of the most mind-melting of his films is
In the great history of vampire movies, there are a lot of incredible films – but only one can claim to be the first vampire film, and perhaps the most important horror film of all time – and that’s F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu (1922). In Nosferatu: The Real Story, the team looks into the drastically changing
Inherit the Witch (2024), directed, co-written by, and starring Cradeaux Alexander, is an ambitious attempt at psychological horror through means of generational trauma. Filmed almost entirely with handheld cameras – sometimes for logical reasons, sometimes seemingly for effect – Inherit the Witch barrels between claustrophobic and agoraphobic, with most of the action taking place in
Daniele Campea’s 2024 Mother Nocturna (Madre Notturna) is a technically and atmospherically excellent film that is ultimately undone by its own commitment to ambiance and style over substance. In this psychological horror inspired by The Bacchae, a wolf biologist has just been released from psychiatric care to live with her doctor husband Riccardo and now-grown