Pedophobia – the excessive fear of children – is a staple within the horror genre, unsettling and interrogating our primal instinct towards nurturing the young. There’s the sadistic son in Lionel Shriver’s We Need to Talk about Kevin, the adolescent cult in Stephen King’s Children of the Corn, or the tribal warfare of stranded schoolboys Read More
IT, USA, 2017 It’s been twenty-seven years since IT’s predecessor haunted the silver screen: uncanny coincidence, or deliberate marketing ploy for a story about a monster known to resurface every twenty-seven years? Either way, Andy Muschietti’s interpretation of Stephen King’s 1986 horror novel presents a nostalgic reinvention of an iconic cult classic that takes Read More
Sandra Ireland’s debut novel Beneath the Skin haunts you from the moment you first turn the opening pages. Echoes of former traumas are deeply embedded in the lives of fully realised, broken characters and ring in the reader’s ears from the first moments. In a time of clichéd explosions in soda adverts, or brutal, overt Read More
Goodnight Mommy, from Austrian directors Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala, is a horror with many niche directions and approaches to the genre – for instance, dialogue wasn’t overly frequent as the film relies more on creating a traditional psychological horror atmosphere than telling the audience what is happening. This atmospheric tension is persistent from the first few seconds Read More
Personally, I adore horror. The jump scares, the adrenaline, everything. So, as a horror fanatic I was ecstatic at the opportunity to watch a new one, with the premise being supernatural lore from the 17th century. To say I was disappointed would be an understatement. The film begins with a pilgrim family being banished from Read More
Harry D’armour, private eye to the supernatural has been chosen as a witness. A mad Cenobite, a Priest of Hell known as Pinhead wants Harry to write his Gospel, to chronicle the Cenobite’s challenge for the throne of Hell. Pinhead will not take no for an answer and convinces Harry the only way he knows Read More