It’s easy to think of horror in terms of submerging yourself into insanity and fear and nightmare - I mean, I think it’s a good approach, li...

One of the side effects I’ve noticed of writing this thing of mine is that occasionally friends will ask me for movie recommendations, and I...

So a couple of nifty little news items have crossed my field of vision recently - apparently, both Lars von Trier and Nicholas Winding Refn ...

Vampire movies are boring. There, I said it. Not all of them, by any means, but I would argue that the overwhelming majority of vampire movi...

It's rare that I remember the first time I watch a film, no matter how good it is. It’s just not the sort of experience that typically m...

pre.ten.tious adjective 1. characterized by assumption of dignity or importance, especially when exaggerated or undeserved. 2. making a...

So in my last post about Creep , I complained about the use of prologues in horror movies as a way to introduce the idea that there’s going ...