Category: Horror

We open with the chilling score which immediately unsettles us, the music is high-pitched, eerie and disturbing, like a wailing wind. The medium shot of…

You are either in possession of a very new human ability… or a very old one. Dr. Sam Weizak (Herbert Lom) 1983 saw four film…

In 1984 (yes, really in 1984 of all years, the irony would not be lost of George Orwell), the British government drew up a list…

Cargo is a 2018 Australian post-apocalyptic thriller film written by Yolanda Ramke and directed by Ramke and Ben Howling, the film is based on Ramke…

The bard was not only brilliant at loftier themes like self-awareness, politics and the contemplation of the many forms of love, he could also mash-up horror, sex, violence, torture and cannibalism with the best of them – then and now. And he does it all in iambic pentameter, the playwrights’ equivalent to Ginger Rogers doing everything her partner does, only backwards and in heels.

Jason Ragosta not only knows what he wants to do in the future, he’s become proficient in pulling it off at every level. Filmotomy will stalk his career with big expectations – watch Boy in the Dark here and see if you don’t agree. The Vimeo password for the short is: Diana

In recent years the amount of psychological horror and minimal science fiction films is increasing, and this ongoing change is definitely a good one. “The…

They fracture time and space, reference our libraries of mythology and ethics, and take us far outside – or inside – of our hopes, our dreams and nightmares.

The Greek and I close out our series of 50 films for Halloween with a heavy dose of family values. Light relief? Not if you…

Yes, these are the horror hybrids that have you scratching your head if only you could locate it. From the sublime, the bonkers, to the…

I’m not here, as a man, to endorse the poor treatment of women, only to scan over how it does form a strong source of…

What do you mean there is nothing funny about a pregnant slasher? Or zombies in a classical literary setting? Or a kind of vampire The…

It was a “wet ungenial summer” in Geneva when the 18-year-old daughter of a political philosopher and a feminist author suggested to her lover and…

There’s nothing like a possession to disrupt a wedding, or indeed a congregation. Could be supernatural, could be a curse, likely unable to explain all…