My All-Time Favourite Spine-Tinglers (Part 2)...

The unofficial “Halloween weekend” might be almost over, but the scariest night of the year is still yet to come. So as promised, here’s the list that completes my top ten scariest horror films of all time. After reading, you might want to stay well away from caves, forests, trick or treaters in general, and probably your own house. Might just be best to stay under the covers and not move until Wednesday then…

My All-Time Favourite Spine-Tinglers (Part I)...

What are your favourite scary movies? Maybe it’s those ones about deranged, masked serial killers, or maybe it’s those about the less-visible terrors, like the featureless shapes that lurk in the dark, or the ones you hear but never see. In short, the answer is that different things scare different people. 

Get Out Review

When it comes to the horror genre it’s more than fair to say that originality is dead, at least more so in concept than execution. Jordan Peele’s directorial debut Get Out might be no exception, but it does in part offer a semi-interesting approach to the age-old get out of that house alive formula while providing an acceptable level of comedy that doesn’t compromise the scares.

In Space, No One Can Hear You Squirm...

                     

When I saw the trailer, my first words to Sian were something like "I've seen this film a hundred times - I'm not interested." The plot: a team of scientists aboard a space station in orbit discover a microscopic alien life form, which soon turns nasty and starts killing them all one-by-one in a gory fashion. It doesn't reek of originality, but then what film does these days?