Horror to me comes in several forms, and pretty much always has. There is the horror that I own and rewatch when I’m bored or feeling a bit down, whose numbers are vast and whose subject matter vary. In this category I put my favourite schlock films, ranging from Jason X to Santa’s Slay. This […]

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Some of our more dedicated readers may remember the very first editorial this newsblog ever published, which you can see here. The article, a question about whether you liked your horror to be Nazi or Commie (as it were) was a fairly fun look at history and its subsequent juxtaposition in modern horror cinema. The […]

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Lars von Trier has shown his new film ‘Antichrist’ at Cannes film festival, and the press were not all impressed. Some were no doubt happy with it, but it has also managed to make a few reporters more than a little unhappy. And Von Trier is never one to shy away from such controversy, and […]

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There has always been a burning need for Nazi horror films. It is the fundamental nature of something so historically significant that always gets labelled as one of the greatest horrors of the modern age. It makes for good horror films. Recently, the movie Outpost (our review of it is here) took an insight into […]

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Backwoods is coming to DVD in the USA on June 23, 2009. That’s the latest news that IMDb has for the film. Some will have heard of it, most perhaps will not, as it is a somewhat less known horror film. The film is described as a ‘fight-for-your-life’ thriller in which a group of 8 […]

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Just when you thought we’d won the debate over whether or not horror movies can cause people to do bad things, another story comes up about how some misguided people saw a horror movie and decided that it was time to turn fiction into reality. There’s just no teaching some people.
About a year ago, just […]

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Paul Bettany has been tipped to star in the upcoming film, due for release in August 2010, titled “Priest”. The film is based on a Japanese comic that revolves around a Priest who is exceptionally good at dispatching of the Vampires that also occupy this fictional world. Hundreds of years of conflict between vampires and […]

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Ever notice how there’s a lot of difference between reading Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Sparknotes’ Hamlet? “It is the East, and Juliette is the sun” is never going to be eclipsed by “Juliette is pretty” which is more or less how I remember my friends trying to characterize Shakespeare. Shame on them for settling for lesser […]

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Universal is going to bring out a classic horror film, and they’re putting Ron Howard at the helm. The news, which comes from Total Film, leave a bit to the imagination. The story admittedly does as well. The film will be based on the same-titled “The Strange Adventures of H.P. Lovecraft” which is a comic […]

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Bernard Hermann’s bonechilling score to Hitchcock’s classic movie Psycho was put up for auction today. Although quite a varied piece, the score is made especially famous, if not infamous by this point, for its use of shrieking violins to accentuate the tension and release in the climactic scene. It’s been spoofed, copied, replicated, and referenced […]

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