Jennifer Aniston’s St Patrick’s Day purgatory: the horrors of Leprechaun
“I don’t think for a minute we, as filmmakers, pretend they’re anything else other than entertaining popcorn movies,” Davis would say in 2014. “I get tweets daily…
Fresh, review: Daisy Edgar-Jones is on the table in this warped horror-thriller
A stranger called Steve (Sebastian Stan) makes a charmingly awkward impression in the fresh veg aisle, as Noa (Normal People’s Daisy Edgar-Jones) consoles herself with some grocery…
How the ‘nightmarish’ classic Nosferatu was almost destroyed – by one furious widow
The original screen Dracula – Nosferatu – was supposed to be destroyed. Not by sunlight, a stake through the heart or a generous helping of garlic, but…
Studio 666, review: a demonic Dave Grohl vomits his way to cinematic infamy
The squelchy horror-comedy Studio 666 throws up a number of questions that no one had really been pondering. Namely: Can Foo Fighters act? Did we need the…
‘It was rotten, it was putrid’: how The Texas Chainsaw Massacre almost killed its cast
The story was famously inspired by Ed Gein, a real-life necrophile and murderer from Plainfield, Wisconsin. Gein robbed graves and used body parts to adorn his house…
Amulet, review: Imelda Staunton, demons and vampire bats do not a sensible horror make
Whatever we might have expected Romola Garai to bring us in her writing-directing debut, it can’t have been Amulet. This chamber-horror oddity from the English actress-turned-auteur is…
Netflix’s biggest mistakes: 10 costly shows that disappeared without trace
4. The Get Down, 2016 The list of film-makers qualified to chronicle the origins of hip hop in Seventies New York is not especially long to begin…
Fresh, review: Daisy Edgar-Jones is better than ever in warped horror-thriller
A stranger called Steve (Sebastian Stan) makes a charmingly awkward impression in the fresh veg aisle, as Noa (Normal People’s Daisy Edgar-Jones) consoles herself with some grocery…
Yellowjackets is right – teenage girls are savages
And what of boys? Are they destined for feral Jack-dom, even when they start out as fairly reasonable Ralphs? If it’s really such a stretch to suppose…
Sleaze, sexism, and Scream: how Neve Campbell survived Hollywood with her dignity intact
It was partly true – in 1997, Campbell’s cameo in the disco drama 54, revolving around the intersecting lives of visitors, employees and proprietors of the iconic…
Scream, review: scare-free horror ‘requel’ is dead on arrival
The new Scream has a gajillion ideas, again, about being a sequel to a mega-successful slasher flick. My mistake: in the film’s own wink-wink terminology, it’s a…