horror

2025

Evolution of Horror Films | Compilation

The following titles are available on Blu-Ray, DVD and digital platforms. Edgar Allan Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher (1960) Produced and Directed By: Roger Corman Screenplay By: Richard Matheson Cast: Vincent Price, Mark Damon, Myrna Fahey with Harry Ellerbe Not Rated Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven (1963)...


18th October 2025
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A great Hammer horror from every year

On 2 May 1957, a very special film was released in London cinemas. The Curse of Frankenstein, from Hammer Films, was the the first of the now legendary British studio’s great gothic horrors, which would come to dominate the horror genre for the next decade and a half. Hammer had dabbled in horror...


30th September 2025
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show: A 50th Anniversary Celebration!

Here’s the latest from Cinema Scholars This year marks the 50th anniversary of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, a film that turned a cult classic into an eternal midnight tradition, a social experiment, and a sartorial revolution all in one. The original stage show has been performed in twenty different languages...


30th April 2025
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Horror Hotel / City of the Dead (1960)

Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s The structure of this piece gives away its origins. It’s effectively a portmanteau, though limited in this instance to three connected tales. Mention the word “portmanteau” and Amicus springs to mind. While that outfit didn’t exist at this precise moment, the movie was...


27th February 2025
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The Story of Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (1922)

In this in-depth retrospective, I tell the story behind one of cinema’s towering classics: 1922’s “Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror”. I dive deep into its development and historical context, its production, release and reception, legal troubles and complex legacy. Directed by F.W. Murnau, with Costumes & Sets by Albin Grau....


12th January 2025
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2024

The Scottish horror film 17 years in the making

A Scottish horror film has finally been released – 17 years after filming first got under way. The Bench is a grisly slasher where a group of friends take a trip to a remote cabin in Renfrewshire, only to disappear one by one. However, the production was struck by a...


9th August 2024
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Radio Horror Stories Reimagined

Guaranteed to send shivers down your spine, the trailer for the upcoming Thai horror Terror Tuesday: Extreme has dropped. The series, set to premiere on August 20, is an eight-episode anthology that takes inspiration from true events and dramatizes the most unnerving stories from EFM’s popular radio show, “Terror Tuesday.”...


23rd July 2024
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10 great South Korean horror films

South Korean horror cinema has experienced a surge in popularity over the past few decades. From terrifying tales of vengeful female ghosts to haunting explorations of economic inequality, colonialism, xenophobia, geopolitics and gender dynamics, these diverse yet consistently fear-inducing films have carved out a distinct niche in the global genre landscape....


11th July 2024
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