Tag: Horror
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by Adam Page There is a certain kind of cinema that gets under your skin, feeling like a splinter you can’t quite locate. It’s persistent, irritating and slightly beautiful in its wrongness. Italian giallo is that kind of cinema. It’s operatic, garish, and morally unhinged. The sort of movie-making that makes you feel a little…
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by Laura Barnes Read Part 1 here. Merkurio “You have a black heart!” Sébastien Pesle’s Merukurio is a curious little thing. With its minimalistic dialogue and its black and white colouring, it’s almost like a Charlie Chaplin film – that is, if Charlie Chaplin starred in movies about male escorts getting kidnapped and enslaved by…
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by Laura Barnes Depravity merchants Interference Films are back, and this time they’ve taken over Manchester’s Cultplex Cinema for a whole weekend. The result is a room full of black t-shirts, skull tattooes, and Grindcore bursting from the speakers. We’re lightyears away from Sundance with this one, folks. Interference Fest is about showcasing the best…
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by Adam Page Any honest conversation about body horror has to start in one uncomfortable place: with the recognition that the flesh was never really ours in the first place. It never was. It’s a collaboration between everything that wanted something from you before you had a name for wanting. Your nervous system is a…
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by Matt Rogerson Liminal spaces – thresholds, passages and uncertain states – lie at the heart of horror storytelling. Currently, liminal spaces and liminality are popular terms among horror fans, thanks to the success of horror films like Kyle Edward Ball’s Skinamarink (2023), television series Severance (2022- ) and video game/digital space (and soon to…
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by Nathan Brown Bloodsuckers, flesheaters and nymphomaniacs: horror cinema has long traded on a primal fear of uncontained female appetites. Afterall, in a world where women’s desire for food, sex and capital has been fiercely policed by patriarchal social norms, what could be scarier than a hungry woman? – Dundead Film Festival I first attended…
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by Laura Barnes “This whole city’s goin’ to hell!” the thick Brooklyn accent bursts from Cultplex’s speakers. “Ya can’t take a pee anywhere!” And the cinema erupts into laughter, unrestrained and infectious. Tonight, Cultplex has been taken over by the motley crew over at Interference Films, a Manchester-based collective dedicated to sourcing and screening lost…
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by Janine Riddell On 15th April I had the opportunity to attend an intimate screening of Ana Lily Amirpour’s A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014). The location was Nottingham’s very own The Carousel. Located in the Hockley district, it’s a vibrant hub of artistic flare and home to some of the very best…
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by Ros Tibbs British horror has yet to truly be given its flowers, especially independent British horror. However, the Rich Mix in Shoreditch is dedicated to platforming and pushing for underground yet artistically passionate genre filmmaking to receive the appropriate attention. One event which demonstrated this was the world premiere of Ned Caderni’s Worm, a…
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By Mary Morgan @msmarymorgan Give me vengeance and give me death! Give me bloody women! You can often find me cheering for blood as credits fade to black and the lights come up, revealing my absolute undying bloodlust. But it’s so much more than just loving my avenging women and their blood-soaked hands. I am,…
