Tag: Horror
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By Josie Allen For as long as Jennifer’s Body has been around, it has invited discourse surrounding feminism and homosexuality. The 2009 horror-comedy stars Amanda Seyfried as Anita ‘Needy’ Lesnicki, the film’s wallflower protagonist, alongside Megan Fox’s Jennifer Check, the alluring cool-girl best friend. When Jennifer is abducted by an indie rock band called Low…
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By Isabelle Cocozza Advertorial for Forbidden Worlds Film Festival: The Big Scream ‘Giallo’ was an Italian horror film subgenre or movement beginning in the 1960’s and fizzling out around the late 1980’s. It is characterised by eccentric murder-mystery plots featuring leather-gloved, razor wielding killers and their beautiful victims, drenched in neon lighting and accompanied by…
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By Josh Coates Images courtesy of Bruno Castro About a year ago, the three Button Mashers sat around and discussed what makes a cinema fun. Being big fans of going it alone to the cinema, we wondered about how best to turn the act of seeing a movie on the big screen into a really…
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Our first screening has arrived. In collaboration with the incredible distributor and physical media purveyor Vinegar Syndrome, Culture Film Publication is presenting erotic horror/exploitation hidden gem The Black Room (1982) – incredibly rarely ever screened since its release. It is directed by Elly Kenner and Norman Thaddeus Vane, and stars Stephen Knight, Cassandra Gava, Jimmy…
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by Aninda Provati The LGBTQ+ community has long been fascinated with the horror genre even when it was hard to see the perfect representation in mainstream films back then. Directors started adding queer subtexts to their films, but they were used mostly to create the villains, the terrifying monsters out for blood. Queer fans soon…
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by Evie Johnson The lulling summer sun and a knife-wielding masked murderer. These are the films that remind us just how terrifying broad daylight can be. A secluded space, limited suspects and an atmosphere reminiscent of Lord of the Flies’ youth-induced chaos are all components of the summer camp slasher, a subgenre which continues to…
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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…
