Bones (2001)

Bones (2001) is a horror movie about Snoop Dogg playing a 1970s-era pimp who comes back from the dead to take ghoulish revenge on those who crossed him. In the mix are a group of young promoters and musicians planning to open up a nightclub – unfortunately it’s in the building that Snoop Dogg’s character, […]

Seance (2021)

I’m a big fan of You’re Next and The Guest, which were both written by Simon Barrett, so I was keen for his directorial debut, Seance (2021). A horror movie set in an all-girls boarding school during wintertime, the film begins with a prank gone awry that accidentally causes the death of a student. With […]

The Empty Man (2020)

From what I’ve read The Empty Man (2020) is the last film to feature the 20th Century Fox logo at the start. The film itself was released without much fanfare after Disney acquired Fox; it’s sitting there waiting for you on Disney Plus if you’re in the mood for a moody horror epic. Based on […]

Manhattan Baby (1982)

After watching Italian horror director and gore-meister Lucio Fulci’s ‘Gates Of Hell’ trilogy last year for spooky movie Halloween season, the collapse of logic was definitely understood as an auteur trademark across all those movies. Manhattan Baby (1982) is Fulci’s Exorcist rip-off, which follows an archaeologist digging around a haunted tomb in Egypt whose family […]

The Blood On Satan’s Claw (1971)

When it comes to the genre of folk-horror, there are three titles often referred to as key canonical texts: Witchfinder General, The Wicker Man (original) and The Blood On Satan’s Claw (1971). The latter was also used as the main promotional imagery for the recent documentary about folk horror, Woodlands Dark And Bewitched directed by […]