Under The Shadow (2016)

Another spooky movie for Halloween! Directed by Babak Anvari and based upon his childhood memories of the Tehran bombings, Under The Shadow (2016) works as a solid drama that escalates into spookiness. It’s set during the Iraq-Iran conflict of the 1980s, focusing on a family living in Tehran during regular bombings, with details such as […]

Salem’s Lot (1979)

In the lead up to Halloween, watching more spooky movies this October! Salem’s Lot (1979) is based on Stephen King’s second novel and is one of my favourites of his books, setting the template for the ‘unimaginable evil in a small town’ plot he’d continuously return to (IT, Tommyknockers, Needful Things, etc). The CBS miniseries, […]

Black Christmas (1974)

Another horror flick for the spooky season! With another remake on the way (which I am interested in as its written by film critic April Wolfe), Black Christmas (1974) is a classic of the horror genre, a precursor to John Carpenter’s Halloween and the launch of the ‘slasher’ sub-genre. Even with early tropes of the […]

Creepshow (1982)

When I was a kid, I stayed up one night to watch Creepshow (1982) – director George A Romero and writer Stephen King’s tribute to old EC horror comics – and it spooked me even though I thought I could handle it. Rewatching it after Romero passed away, I loved it – it feels like […]

1922 (2017)

Zak Hilditch’s adaptation of the Stephen King novella 1922 (2017) has hit Netflix. While there are references to classic Edgar Allan Poe horror elements of rats and apparitions, it’s more about the truer horror of the evil that men do, how one’s own vanities poison everything around them. One of Thomas Jane’s best performances (not […]