If there was ever any testament to the endless talents of Alfred Hitchcock, it was that he managed to take an utterly absurd premise, a pair of uncharismatic leads, a shrill supporting cast and dated special effects and turn it into inarguably one of the greatest horror films ever made. There’s no need to wax…

If you long for something that occurred at the perfect intersection between sanctimonious morality tale and harrowing existential horror, you’d probably find Roger Corman’s adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Masque of the Red Death delivers exactly what you’re looking for. To describe this film is to attempt to put a saddle on one of…

Nobody makes movies like Mario Bava – this is a fact that I used to be very thankful for, since I understood the appeal of Bava’s work, but could never quite get on board with the effusive praise cinephiles layered on him, constantly being reluctant to embrace him, because while his work was certainly unique,…

Johan Borg (Max von Sydow) is a painter who lives with his wife Alma (Liv Ullmann) in the relative isolation of the Swedish countryside. They have retreated here to escape the rush of the modern world, so that Alma may spend the rest of her pregnancy in peace. However, everything is not quite as it…

“The door slammed at our backs, and the big, bad world opened up to us” By the time these chilling words are heard towards the beginning of Gretel & Hansel, we are already ensconced in the grim fairytale world director Osgood “Oz” Perkins has thrust us into, and escape is extremely unlikely, by virtue of…

When we are introduced to Cecilia (Elisabeth Moss), she’s about to attempt to escape, which isn’t a rare occurrence in horror films. However, the difference is that she’s trying to run away from her home, which houses her boyfriend, Adrian (Oliver Jackson-Cohen), a beloved technological innovator who has amassed enormous wealth and massive respect from…

Horror is a genre that has produced just as many iconic figures as it has thrust audacious filmmakers into obscurity, regardless of the quality of their work. A figure that grapples the line between these two is Narciso Ibáñez Serrador, a director who may have only made two theatrical films, but did so in such…

Horror filmmaking, especially in the earlier days of Hollywood, was a fascinating time, especially when it comes to exploring the careers of specific individuals, whether directors or actors. The Old Dark House is one of the few horror films that can be considered a perfect symbiosis of multiple genres, conventions and styles, and the rare…

“There is enchantment in the light” Robert Eggers may have broken film criticism – not because he made a perfect film, but rather one that is singularly impossible to fully encapsulate in any amount of words. It’s difficult to figure out precisely where to start when talking about The Lighthouse – this is a brilliant…

There aren’t many people who contemporary audiences can implicitly trust to deliver a film about a haunted dress without descending into parody more than revolutionary auteur Peter Strickland. He is a director who has proven himself to be one of the most peculiar directors working today through a set of films that are both incredibly…