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The Moth Diaries
22 May 2013
Suspense-less boarding school vampire thriller starring Sarah Bolger, Sarah Gadon and Lily Cole
Arriving a week before Neil Jordan’s vampire tale Byzantium, you have to wonder if those releasing The Moth Diaries were hoping to steal a march on Jordan’s film. They needn’t have bothered. A pale shadow of Byzantium, it doesn’t even hold a candle to…
Director Neil Jordan and actor Gemma Arterton talk vampire feminism in Byzantium
17 May 2013
The thriller is 'a continuation' of Jordan's earlier Interview with the Vampire
‘There have been too many vampire films lately,’ laughs Neil Jordan, perched on a chair in London’s Soho Hotel. You might say the director of Interview With the Vampire only has himself to blame. Without his 1994 take on Anne Rice’s novel, starring Tom…
Byzantium
26 Feb 2013
Neil Jordan's vampire flick screened as part of FrightFest at the Glasgow Film Festival 2013
Neil Jordan’s return to the world of vampires was another much anticipated UK premiere, particularly as Jordan, producer Stephen Woolley and stars Gemma Arterton and Saoirse Ronan were in attendance. This is a modern urban vampire story playing out in a…
Sleep Tight (Mientras Duermes)
22 Feb 2013
Dark Spanish thriller featuring a wonderful, creepy central performance from Luis Tosar
Over the last few years horror fans have been turning to Europe, and in particular Spain, for fresh innovative cinema. And while Sleep Tight is more a dark thriller than a straight horror it inhabits some pretty creepy, twisted territory, and is…
Dark Skies
28 Mar 2013
A sci-fi horror with a few decent scares is let down by derivative plotting
Having previously bombarded us with (post-)apocalyptic scenarios in Doomsday, Legion and Priest, writer-director Scott Stewart now takes on the alien visitation genre with marginally more satisfying results. While Dark Skies exercises more restraint and…
Citadel
20 Feb 2013
Bleak and morally dubious ‘hoodie horror’ set in Glasgow high rises
The ‘hoodie horror’ subgenre can be neatly summed up as the Daily Mail’s favourite nightmare: good, honest (almost invariably white) folks terrorized by gangs of feral (almost invariably multi-racial) urban youths. 2008 horror Eden Lake and the Michael…
Dead by Dawn 2013 director Adele Hartley gives us an insight into Scotland's Horror Festival
16 Apr 2013
Hartley talks us through the festival highlights, as well as trends and misogyny in the horror genre
What can you say about this year’s programme? Surprises, favourites, screenings about which you are particularly excited? Super-excited about showing Modus Anomali which is one of those gorgeous, mind-melt movies that demands an extra pint in the bar…
Before Dawn
21 Feb 2013
Uneven low-budget zombie drama with unexpected final act
The public’s interest in all things connected with zombies shows little signs of passing away quietly, with micro-budget feature Before Dawn arriving on the heels of the somewhat higher profile Warm Bodies. The common ground is that both attempt to…
Evil Dead
26 Mar 2013
Fede Alvarez's horror remake doesn't better the original, but is still satisfyingly gory
Plumping for back-to-basics terror over quips and innovation, Evil Dead transcends its remake status with exuberant displays of blood lust, dousing a largely bland cast in buckets of the stuff. The feature debut of acclaimed shorts director Fede Alvarez…
Evil Dead II, Stitches, The Man With the Iron Fists - DVD & Blu-ray round-up April 2013
18 Apr 2013
A selection of the best (and worst) horror and action movies released this month
Time for another trip into the darker recesses of the DVD release schedule. With a remake about to hit the cinema it’s prime time to revisit Evil Dead II (Studio Canal) ●●●●●, and it’s still an absolute classic. It’s the archetypal ‘cabin in the woods…
Maniac
13 Mar 2013
Gratuitous slasher remake with a lead performance by Elijah Wood
This slasher remake takes the concept of William Lustig’s controversial 1980 original, focusing on Frank, a loner sociopath who brutally murders beautiful women, and increases the repellent-factor by virtue of a much higher gore budget and a decision to…
Opinion: Why do we love horror during times of economic uncertainty?
20 Feb 2013
Twilight, The Walking Dead and Dead Set are just some of our recent horrific cultural highlights
After the Wall Street crash of 1929, was it pure coincidence that Universal set about creating a canon of classic horror movies with iconic creations? Bela Lugosi’s Dracula, Boris Karloff’s monster of Frankenstein and Lon Chaney Jr’s Wolf Man continued…
FrightFest reviews roundup: Black Sabbath, Bring Me the Head of Machine Gun Woman and Hellfjord
28 Feb 2013
Three screenings that took place as part of the horror strand at Glasgow Film Festival 2013
Day two opened with a restored print of an Italian horror classic, Mario Bava’s Black Sabbath. This trio of terrifying tales is a wonderful anthology that really showcases his style, the exaggerated use of lighting and colour give the film a queasy…
Directors Lee Hardcastle and Jake West on horror anthology The ABCs of Death
16 May 2013
The film also features short, sharp shocks from Ben Wheatley, Xavier Gens and Ti West
‘It’s a horror film anthology made up of 26 chapters, each directed by a separate director. Each segment is represented by a letter of the alphabet; the letter of the alphabet stands for a word which is relevant to that segment and that death.’ Lee…
Misadventures in Wonderland: All Night Horror Madness
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22 Mar 2013
Our columnist Alice, a self-confessed movie hater, attends a ten-hour horror film marathon
For God’s sake. There are two things I don’t do. One is eat cereal (because pouring milk on things that are crispy is disgusting) and the other is watch films. I’ve never got it. Owning a short attention span but never a DVD player hasn’t…
The ABCs of Death
28 Feb 2013
The 26 part horror anthology screened as part of FrightFest at Glasgow Film Festival 2013
26 shorts about death all rolled into just over two hours, as a horde of horror directors from around the world each pick a letter, assign an appropriate deathly demise to said letter, then make a (roughly) four minute film. As with all anthologies the…
Aftershock
28 Feb 2013
Eli Roth co-writes and stars in this grisly disaster movie
Aftershock was probably the biggest film of the FrightFest weekend, mainly because star/co-writer/horror icon Eli Roth was in the house for the screening (along with director Nicolás López and co-star Lorenza Izzo), a real coup for the festival. The…
Sawney: Flesh of Man
26 Feb 2013
The cannibal horror was screened as part of Glasgow Film Festival's 2013 Frightfest strand
There was a sneaky bonus before the screening of Sawney with the world premiere of Spencer Estabrook’s short The Hunt (●●●●), a nicely comedic concise monster movie that begs the question who’s hunting who? Sawney played well to the Scottish crowd.
John Dies at the End
20 Feb 2013
Self-conciously bizarre cult comedy offering from director Don Coscarelli
Penned by Senior Editor at Cracked.com David Wong (real name Jason Pargin), the 2009 novel John Dies at the End was a comedy-horror tornado of cultural references, paranormality and winking self-awareness. Cult filmmaker Don Coscarelli (Phantasm, Bubba…
The Bay
28 Feb 2013
Barry Levinson's found footage parasite horror screened at FrightFest at Glasgow Film Festival 2013
The Bay is a strange film to come from Barry Levinson, you don’t expect a found footage horror from the director of Rain Man, Good Morning, Vietnam and Wag the Dog. The format is usually the first choice for first time directors trying to make an impact…
The Lords of Salem
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26 Feb 2013
Rob Zombie's ambitious witch horror screened as part of FrightFest at Glasgow Film Festival 2013
Before the UK premiere of Rob Zombie’s latest feature we got a look at the first episode of Norwegian TV series Hellfjord, packed with gags and plenty of weirdness it went down incredibly well with the FrightFest audience. Zombie’s movies have all…
Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters
25 Feb 2013
Unsatisfying horror, comedy and action combo starring Gemma Arterton and Jeremy Renner
Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters is the dunderheaded English-language debut of Norwegian director Tommy Wirkola (best known for highly entertaining Nazi zom-com Dead Snow). Despite a promisingly (and characteristically) daft concept it's a film that lacks…
Director Ricky Wood discusses David Hayman-starring horror Sawney: Flesh of Man
19 Feb 2013
The film is a modern retelling of the legend of Scottish cannibal Sawney Bean
Sawney: Flesh of Man is a new horror film based on the life of Sawney Bean, the infamous head of a Scottish cannibal clan who robbed and ate travellers in the 15th or 16th century. Starring David Hayman in the title role director Ricky Wood has brought…
Eli Roth, Sawney: Flesh of Man and Lords of Salem among the highlights at FrightFest Glasgow 2013
19 Feb 2013
The Glasgow Film Festival's cult-horror strand also features screenings of Bayantium and The Bay
‘I think our major trump card is getting Eli Roth to come,’ is a minor understatement from Alan Jones, one of the fearsome four who – alongside Ian Rattray, Paul McEvoy and Greg Day – orchestrate the two days of terror that is FrightFest. Roth is…
Stoker
18 Feb 2013
Unusually intense slice of American Gothic adds something fresh to the thriller genre
Despite director Park Chan-wook’s previous involvement with vampires (Thirst), his American debut has nothing to do with Dracula writer Bram Stoker. Instead India Stoker (Mia Wasikowska) is a teenage girl mourning the death of her father Richard (Dermot…
